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Rugilė Pilvinienė, Senior Advisor to IWT’s Pharmacovigilance and Poisoning Division, confirmed that a death report had been received from a 67-year-old man who had been vaccinated 7 days ago with the first dose of Comirnaty vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech.
“However, he did not have any side effects from the vaccine after the vaccination. The person was vaccinated as a high-risk patient due to his concomitant pathology. It was about a man who was taking immunosuppressants for a previous organ transplant, in addition to having concomitant cardiovascular disease, which was severe, treated surgically.
Thus, the patient suffered a sudden death that the informant doctors considered not related to the vaccination. He was just a very risky patient. “We came to the same conclusion: it is likely that the death was accidental and coincided with the recent vaccination,” he said.
A minority of more serious reactions.
Speaking of the vaccines used by two manufacturers so far, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, Gytis Andrulionis, head of the State Agency for Medicines Control (VVKT), reported that within a month from December 26. 68 thousand have already been vaccinated. 491 person.
It reported 311 side effects reported within a month of starting vaccination, of which only 13 were serious.
Commenting on the suspected serious adverse reactions at a conference held on Thursday, the IWT spokeswoman recalled that under the planned legislation, reactions requiring hospitalization or prolongation are considered. Also if the person dies as a result of an adverse reaction or if birth defects or other conditions have occurred during the pregnancy.
“It just came to our attention then. As is well known, this vaccine is not recommended during pregnancy and we do not know which pregnant women should be vaccinated.
So in this case, we consider a severe reaction if that event was of significant importance and if the person needed hospital care. These are some obvious trends that I couldn’t pinpoint due to serious suspected side effects.
However, these reactions included severe headaches, dizziness, and the couple fainted or felt weak. Also, nausea, severe vomiting. One side effect was reported as anaphylaxis: the person became weak and had low blood pressure. However, we still cannot say, because such reactions also occur with a psychogenic effect, a needle. This is also written in the summary of characteristics of the vaccine ”, explained the IWT specialist.
He added that reactions such as palpitations, shortness of breath and a strong local reaction also occurred.
“One patient had very severe swelling of the lymph nodes and severe pain in the armpit. As I mentioned, this is a common reaction to vaccines. There were also reports of severe pain in the muscles of the arm and the whole body, ”said R. Pilvinienė.
He also added that unexpected reactions to the vaccine included numbness of the tongue, face or extremities.
“But there were very few such cases, only a few,” he said.
Most of the reported adverse drug reactions were classified as mild to moderate.
The head of IWT explained that the possible side effects of the three vaccines registered in the European Union were similar:
These include pain, swelling at the injection site, tiredness, headache, general malaise, fever, nausea. Acute peripheral facial paralysis has also been reported in Pfizer and Moderna, and hypersensitivity reactions and anaphylaxis have been reported in several individuals.
The tv3.lt portal recalls that 1,491 people were vaccinated with the first dose of the vaccine and 4291 people with the second dose on the last day.
In Lithuania, the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine was administered to a total of 75,000 people. 804 people, both doses – 30 thousand. 241 people.
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