Corona vaccination: risky with severe allergies?
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More posts by Christiane Fux All content is checked by medical journalists.British authorities advise against vaccinating people with severe allergies for the time being. In the run-up, two allergy sufferers had reacted violently to the vaccination.
After the start of the mass vaccination against Corona, the British authorities have called on people with a "significant" history of allergies not to be vaccinated for the time being. This refers to people who, for example, have already suffered a severe allergic reaction, a so-called anaphylactic shock.
Two NHS employees with a history of this kind had an allergic reaction after receiving the dose, NHS chief Stephen Powis told a parliamentary committee in London on Wednesday. "Both are recovering well."
"Pure Precautions"
Powis stressed that the warning was purely a precautionary measure, as is common with new vaccines. It has not yet been known that similar cases would have occurred among the 20,000 or so people vaccinated in the Phase III study.
Several hundred Britons vaccinated
Great Britain was the first country in the world to grant the Mainz-based pharmaceutical company Biontech and its US partner Pfizer emergency approval for their corona vaccine, and the agent has been used across the board since Tuesday. Hundreds of people were vaccinated on the first day, according to British media.
More vaccines in the pipeline
It should not stop with the BioNTech / Pfizer product alone. "We expect a portfolio of three or four vaccines to use by mid-year," said government medical advisor Chris Whitty to the committee. The Swedish-British pharmaceutical company Astrazeneca, for example, developed vaccines together with the University of Oxford and the US company Moderna.
(dpa / cf)
