Deputy cost nurse Katie McIntosh administers the primary of two Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine jabs, to Vivien McKay Scientific Nurse Supervisor
Deputy cost nurse Katie McIntosh administers the primary of two Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine jabs, to Vivien McKay Scientific Nurse Supervisor on the Western Common Hospital, on the primary day of the biggest immunisation programme within the British historical past, in Edinburgh, Scotland Britain December 8, 2020.
Andrew Milligan | Reuters
LONDON — Individuals who have a historical past of “important” allergic reactions mustn’t at the moment obtain the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, the U.Ok. drug regulator mentioned on Wednesday.
The U.Ok’s Medicines and Healthcare merchandise Regulatory Company up to date its steerage to British well being service trusts on who ought to obtain the vaccine, cautioning that “any particular person with a historical past of a major allergic response to a vaccine, drugs or meals (resembling earlier historical past of anaphylactoid response or those that have been suggested to hold an adrenaline autoinjector) mustn’t obtain the Pfizer BioNtech vaccine.”
The precautionary recommendation got here after two members of Britain’s Nationwide Well being Service, who obtained the vaccine on Tuesday, skilled allergic reactions to the shot. Each are recovering effectively, in response to the nationwide medical director for the NHS.
“As is widespread with new vaccines, the MHRA have suggested on a precautionary foundation that individuals with a major historical past of allergic reactions don’t obtain this vaccination,” Professor Stephen Powis, nationwide medical director for the NHS, mentioned in a press release from NHS England Wednesday.
The U.Ok. was the primary nation on this planet to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine final week. On Tuesday it started an enormous vaccination drive beginning in hospitals, with well being and care house staff and people aged over 80 first in line to be inoculated.