Juneau healthcare worker has adverse reaction to vaccine
by Becky Bohrer, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 16, 2020 3:24 pm EDT
Last Updated Dec 16, 2020 at 3:28 pm EDT
JUNEAU, Alaska Health officials in Alaska reported Wednesday that a health care worker had a severe allergic reaction to a COVID-19 vaccine within 10 minutes of receiving a shot.
U.S. health authorities warned doctors to watch for rare allergic reactions when they rolled out the first vaccine, made by Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech. Britain reported a few similar cases a week earlier. That’s why vaccine recipients are supposed to be observed after getting the shot, in case they need immediate treatment.
The total remains the world’s third highest, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.
The ministry also reported 936 deaths from the disease. Neither its newly reported deaths nor cases included data from Sao Paulo state, Brazil’s most populous and where the toll has been heaviest. In a text message, the health ministry cited “technical problems,” without elaborating.
The number of cases and deaths in Latin America’s largest nation has rebounded since local leaders eased restrictions and pandemic fatigue set in.
President Jair Bolsonaro, who has consistently undermined quarantine measures and downplayed the virus’ severity, said at a public event last week that Brazil is at “the tail end of the pandemic.”
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First problems in distribution of Pfizer vaccine involved it being too cold, not cold enough
Updated December 16, 2020, 5:58 p.m.
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Staff Sergeant Noel Bueno (left), Private First Class Saurav Shrestha (center), and Mark Robinson took delivery of a box of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 before putting it in a freezer on Tuesday at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, south of Seattle.Ted S. Warren/Associated Press
The first hiccups in the distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States included a holdup in delivering 3,900 shots to two states and the announcement that Pfizer Inc. would deliver about 900,000 fewer doses next week than are set to ship this week.