Covid Vaccine Deaths Rise in Norway Among Older People - Bloomberg - 0 views
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Norway expressed increasing concern about the safety of the Pfizer Inc. vaccine on elderly people with serious underlying health conditions after raising an estimate of the number who died after receiving inoculations to 29.
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the vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech SE was the only one available in Norway, and “all deaths are thus linked to this vaccine,”
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“There are 13 deaths that have been assessed, and we are aware of another 16 deaths that are currently being assessed,”
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Official reports of allergic reactions have been rare as governments rush to roll out vaccines to try to contain the global pandemic.
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The first people to be immunized in many places have been older than that as countries rush to inoculate nursing-home residents at high risk from the virus.
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for those with the most severe frailty, even relatively mild vaccine side effects can have serious consequences. For those who have a very short remaining life span anyway, the benefit of the vaccine may be marginal or irrelevant.