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Norway reviewing Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine deaths of frail and elderly patients CNN 1/19/2021 By Ivana Kottasová, Sarah Dean and Amanda Sealy, CNN © Oscar del Pozo/AFP/Getty Images A health worker prepares a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination campaign of members of the Emergency Medical Services of Madrid (SUMMA) in Madrid on January 12, 2021. Doctors in Norway are investigating the deaths of 23 elderly patients who had received the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, looking into the possibility that adverse reactions to the shot may have contributed to a fatal outcome in some frail patients. The vaccine s side-effects are rare and usually mild. But they could include fever and nausea, which could be dangerous in very ill and frail patients.

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