Britain's medicine regulator has advised that people with a history of significant allergies do not get Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine after two people reported adverse reactions on the first day of rollout.

Who else can't wait to participate in the vaccine lottery?

  • DasKarlBarx [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Yeah, but they'll still make assloads of money vaxing people without allergies. It's largely on the UK gov for fucking up that rollout.

    • Darkmatter2k [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      We still don't know how long the immunity will last, what other people might be adversely affected, and its pretty clear that this was rush through to make pfizer Q4 earnings

      • DasKarlBarx [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        I agree, but

        Pfizer has said people with a history of severe adverse allergic reactions to vaccines or the candidate’s ingredients were excluded from their late stage trials, which is reflected in the MHRA’s emergency approval protocol.

        They were given emergency exception to avoid testing on this group of people. The UK gov knew and could have avoided that group during the rollout (like they now are) and avoided all this till that group could be tested.

        I know Pfizer's motivations is to make as many vaxs as possible for as much money as possible, but this was avoidable if the UK gov wasn't run by a bunch of drunk public school lads that couldn't probably spell vaccine or Pfizer.