Increased deaths from Covid vaccines in Norway among older people

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Norway recorded a total of 29 deaths among people over 75 years of age who received their first Covid-19 vaccine, raising questions about which groups to target in national vaccination programs.

The latter number adds six to the number of fatalities known in Norway and also reduces the supposedly affected age group of 80 years.

Until Friday, Pfizer / BioNTech was the only vaccine available in Norway, and “all deaths are therefore related to this vaccine,” said the Norwegian Medicines Agency in a written response to Bloomberg on Saturday.

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