What Allergic Vaccine Reactions Mean For You

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

As vaccinations roll out across the country, a few people have incurred serious allergic reactions. Though the rate is very low, it is still higher than that for the seasonal flu vaccine. Despite that, the CDC is sticking with its recommendation that most people should still get the shots. Emma Court explains why.

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0:35.3	Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 303 since coronavirus was declared a global
0:43.6	pandemic. Today's main story? Some people have gotten severe allergic reactions after being
0:50.9	vaccinated for COVID-19. While the number is very small,
0:56.0	it's higher than it is for the flu shot.
0:59.3	What does that mean for you?
1:02.4	But first, here's what happened in virus news today. In Israel, one of the countries with the most effective vaccine programs, the shots may already be working.
1:23.4	The country has inoculated about 20% of its population and is starting to see signs that the Swift campaign is slowing the virus.
1:32.3	A study from the Shiba Medical Center of around 500 healthcare workers who got the Pfizer shot
1:38.3	showed more than 50% produced antibodies after the first week.
1:43.3	The findings are preliminary, but they're encouraging.
1:48.3	In New York City, residents looking to get vaccines have to navigate a bewildering system.
1:54.9	That's hindering plans to speed up inoculations, according to a tweet from comptroller Scott Stringer, who is also a mayoral
2:03.3	candidate. To ramp up its slow rollout, the city opened mass vaccination sites on Sunday in
2:10.5	Brooklyn and the Bronx, extended shots on Monday to people 75 and over, and encouraged everyone eligible to schedule an appointment.
2:20.8	But the sign-up process is fractured and confusing. Meanwhile, the city's mayor, Bill de Blasio,
2:28.4	reaffirmed his goal of doling out one million COVID-19 doses by the end of January.
2:36.6	Finally, Pfizer and Bio-NTech raised their COVID-19 vaccine production target for this year to 2 billion shots.
2:46.5	The partners have already agreed to deliver more than half that capacity, Bio-NTech said, in a
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