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Now, California authorities are investigating the death of a Placer County-based patient who received a COVID-19 vaccine dose on Jan. 21. The patient died hours afterward.
Placer County officials stressed they had not linked the death to the vaccine.
They are planning on conducting an autopsy.
Officials in Florida are also investigating the death of a 56-year-old physician who died 16 days after receiving the BNT162b2 vaccine from Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and BioNTech (NSDQ:BNTX).
Pfizer had stressed that it doesn’t “believe at this time that there is any direct connection to the vaccine” in the Florida physician’s death.
Separately, the World Health Organization stressed that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is safe following the deaths in Norway. “The current reports do not suggest any unexpected or untoward increase in fatalities in frail, elderly individuals or any unusual characteristics of adverse events following administration of BNT162b2,” the organization concluded in a statement.
While some medical officials have worried that severe allergic reactions could prove fatal for COVID-19 vaccine recipients, such reactions are rare, occurring in roughly 5.5 patients per 1 million. Such anaphylactic reaction can be treated using epinephrine and intravenous fluids.
The Phase 3 clinical trials from Pfizer and BioNTech showed that their vaccine was overwhelmingly safe in individuals 16 to 85 years old.
The Moderna (NSDQ:MRNA) Phase 3 study was open to individuals 18 and older.
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I’m a 60 tear old nurse who received my second dose of the Pfizer vaccine in February. This month I had blood work drawn and to my surprise my GFR was 57 and Creatinine was 1.02 ( early kidney failure). The strange thing about this is prior to the vaccine in June 2020 my GFR was 89 and Creatinine 83, which is within normal range. Needless to say I’m worried and afraid of this plummet in my kidney function since the vaccine. I forgot to mention, I’m not hypertensive or diabetic and I take no daily medications. Has there been any other cases of decreased organ function post vaccine?
I am being pressured by friends and family to get vaccinated or risk being treated like a leper. Most of what we know about the vaccines (and the disease) seems to come from statistical analysis, not medical analysis. Don’t tell me the vaccine is safe statistically. Tell me why these people died. Tell me why this disease affects some people disproportionally. People that are outside of the “high risk” groups, I might add. My own opinion is that we do not know enough about the disease to be saying any of this.