A Boston doctor with a shellfish allergy developed a severe allergic reaction after recently receiving the Covid-19 vaccine from Moderna. New York Times reported, citing the doctor.
Dr. Hossein Sadrzadeh, a geriatric oncology fellow at Boston Medical Center, stated that he had a severe reaction almost immediately after being vaccinated, feeling dizzy and with a racing heart, NYT he said in his report.
This is the first serious publicly related reaction to Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine, which is in its first week of nationwide rollout.
David Kibbe, a spokesman for the Boston Medical Center, said in a statement that Dr. Sadrzadeh “felt that he was developing an allergic reaction and was allowed to self-administer his personal epi-pen. He was taken to the Emergency Department, evaluated, treated, observed and discharged. Today is fine. “
An official with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said last week that the US drug regulator is investigating about five allergic reactions that occurred after people were given Pfizer and the BioNTech SE coronavirus vaccine in the United States.
Meanwhile, amid fear of the new coronavirus strain, Moderna has said that it hopes the immunity induced by its Covid-19 vaccine will protect against the variant reported in the UK.
Moderna said she plans to run tests to confirm the jab’s effectiveness against the new mutation. “We have already tested serum from animals and humans vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine against a number of earlier variants of the Sars-CoV-2 virus that have emerged since the first outbreak and we found that our vaccine is still equally effective,” he said.
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