A healthcare professional in New York had a significant allergic reaction after receiving Pfizer COVID vaccine. The case was the first of its kind among more than 30,000 vaccinations in the city, according to officials.
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The individual was treated and is in a stable state. No other information was released about when the vaccine was given or where.
The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said in a statement on Wednesday: “Vaccines have side effects and allergic reactions – although uncommon – are known to occur. We also know that, based on clinical trials and reports of adverse effects in other jurisdictions, reactions like these are rare, but have been reported with the Pfizer vaccine. “
The CDC recommends that healthcare professionals monitor people who receive Pfizer COVID vaccine for 15 minutes after, or 30 minutes if they have a history of severe allergic reactions, known as anaphylaxis, due to any cause.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (DCC) classifies an allergic reaction as severe if the person needs to be treated with an epinephrine pen or if they need to go to the hospital.
As of Friday, December 18, six people had experienced anaphylaxis after Pfizer vaccination, according to CDC data released on December 19. At that time, 272,001 people had received the vaccine from Pfizer. The case of the New York City healthcare professional may therefore be the seventh.
All six cases occurred in the observation period and were “promptly treated”, the agency said.
O Modern The vaccine was not included in the data because it was administered for the first time on Monday, but there were no reports of allergic reactions.
More than 1 million people worldwide have been vaccinated with a Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, mainly in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada.
Subjects who had allergic reactions included two health professionals in Alaska. At the time, the chief medical officer of the state, Dr. Anne zinc he said such reactions were “expected” and the facility is equipped to deal with them.
Earlier this month, two health professionals in the UK experienced allergic reactions to the Pfizer vaccine. Experts said at the time that their experiences should not make the public “anxious” about being vaccinated against COVID.
The National Institutes of Health plans to study what may be triggering serious allergic reactions in some recipients of the Pfizer vaccine.
Peter Marks, director of the FDA Center for biological Evaluation and research, said The Washington Post it is possible that an ingredient called polyethylene glycol, commonly used in medicine, is to blame.
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