John Hicks wrote:
To the person who wrote about the two reactions to the vivid vaccine.
On television today in England the prime minister Boris Johnson was doing a corona virus special with Johnathan Van Tam the deputy health official for England he is a top epidemiologist and Sir Steven Vance the head of the NHS.
Jonathan Van Tam spoke about the incidents that cannon user mentioned they were nothing to do with the Pfizer vaccine as they happened two days and eight days after the vaccine was given, this is before the vaccine would start to work ten to eleven days after the first injection so saying the vaccine caused this is fake news.
There were two bits of good news today firstly parliament passed the bill that means we have finally left the EU on the first of January and second but if good news is the Oxford/Astra Zenica vaccine will start to be given on the 4th of January and the UK government has ordered 100 million doses and this vaccine can be kept in a refrigerator.
To the person who wrote about the two reactions to... (
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To call these two quite serious incidents fake news is pretty irresponsible and fails totally to understand the facts.
The reality is that this came after two NHS workers had allergic reactions.
The advice not to have the vaccine or only do so following medical advice applies to those who have had reactions to medicines, food or vaccines, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said.
The two people had a reaction shortly after having the new jab, had treatment and are both fine now.
They are understood to have had an anaphylactoid reaction, which tends to involve a skin rash, breathlessness and sometimes a drop in blood pressure. This is not the same as anaphylaxis which can be fatal.
Both NHS workers have a history of serious allergies and carry adrenaline pens around with them.
Professor Stephen Powis, medical director for the NHS in England, said both individuals were recovering well.
He said this was "common with new vaccines", describing it as a precautionary measure.
Dr June Raine, head of the MHRA, said it was only right to take this step now that "we've had this experience".
Reactions like this are uncommon, but do happen with other vaccines, including the annual flu jab.
Several thousand people were vaccinated on Tuesday in hospital clinics on the first day of the UK rollout of the new Covid jab.
Prof Peter Openshaw, an expert in immunology at Imperial College London, said: "The fact that we know so soon about these two allergic reactions and that the regulator has acted on this to issue precautionary advice shows that this monitoring system is working well.