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That's a much smaller group than the people who have just been advised not to take it though, and I assume that people in that group would already have been adv
by mcintyre1994 6y ago
That's a much smaller group than the people who have just been advised not to take it though, and I assume that people in that group would already have been advised not to take it. We don't know what allergies the affected people had AFAIK, but the advice goes far beyond people with a history of severe reactions to vaccines/its ingredients:
> “Any person with a history of a significant allergic reaction to a vaccine, medicine or food (such as previous history of anaphylactoid reaction or those who have been advised to carry an adrenaline autoinjector) should not receive the Pfizer BioNtech vaccine,” it said.
I've never had a reaction to vaccines, I'm unaware of having a reaction to any medicine, so from what Pfizer said I could have been in the trial. But I'd be excluded by this new advice because I carry an epi-pen for a food allergy.
- petertodd 6y agoI wouldn't read too much into that warning, at least in terms of overall safety. The fact is, they're releasing these vaccines on a broad scale much faster, and with less safety testing completed, than usual. So there's plenty of things that we normally wouldn't know yet at this stage of development; in this case just leads to authorities being extra cautious, because this is an experiment. It's just that with other vaccines the general public would never become aware of issues like that, because the vaccines wouldn't have been released so early to so many people. FWIW, looks like the HPV vaccine also had problems with occasional severe allergic reactions: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vaccine-reaction-idUSN3146783220080901 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vaccine-reaction-idUSN314... That article is from 2008, so I don't know if that issue has been fixed or not. Regardless, it obviously wasn't a deal breaker, as Gardasil is still being used.