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  Alaskan health worker suffers severe allergic reaction minutes after getting COV

  Posted by Nigel on 17 December 2020 at 1:26 pm

  Alaskan health worker suffers severe allergic reaction minutes after getting COVID vaccine.

  A health care worker in Alaska suffered a severe allergic reaction to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine minutes after getting the jab.

  Dr. Lindy Jones, the emergency room medical director at Juneau’s Bartlett Regional Hospital, said the Juneau woman, whose name was not reported, felt flushed and short of breath Tuesday, The Associated Press reported.

  Shortly after the vaccines were first administered in Britain last week, resulting in the reporting of a few similar allergic reactions, stateside health authorities called on doctors to keep an eye out for allergic such reactions to the Pfizer and BioNTech collaboration.

  Contrary to the Brits who experienced this, the Alaska woman does not have a history of allergic reactions.

  Jones said the woman was given the “standard treatment” of epinephrine and thankfully “responded immediately,” Alaska Public Media reported. The woman was also treated with antihistamines like Benadryl and Pepsid, and steroids — which Jones said was also standard for such a reaction.

  When she was taken off epinephrine though, her symptoms came back and the woman was subsequently kept over night in the ICU.

  “Assuming there’s no further symptoms now that she’s off all medication,” as Jones said, she should be discharged Wednesday evening.

  Her reaction aside, the woman had hoped to receive the second dose of the vaccine in coming weeks, according to one of her doctors, Noble Anderson. But now she will not be able to get that follow-up jab.

  The woman’s anaphylactic response to the vaccine is the first reported in the U.S., according to Dr. Jay Butler, CDC’s deputy director for infectious diseases.

  

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