Deaths after corona vaccinations: the health authority in the EU country clarifies an important point - and advises weighing up

There are isolated cases of death after vaccinations against the coronavirus.

There are increasing signs that the dead are old and out of nursing homes.

An authority advocates weighing up.

• Coronavirus pandemic

  : The number of

  Covid-19 deaths

  is high in January.

• The

  corona vaccinations

  are starting slowly across Europe.

• In

  Norway

  , several

  fatalities after the corona vaccinations can be

  assigned to

  nursing homes

  and old age - a Scandinavian authority is now advising to weigh up.

Munich / Oslo - It is a message that

suspects vaccination skeptics

in the

coronavirus pandemic

.

According to

tagesschau.de,

13 fatalities

were recently

examined

in

Norway

who died shortly after being vaccinated against the insidious lung disease

Covid-19

.

Coronavirus vaccinations: 13 deaths have been investigated in Norway

But: As the Norwegian portal

Faktisk

reports, the

Norwegian Medicines Agency has

not been able to determine a connection between the deaths and the

vaccines

administered

.

A total of 33 deaths (as of January 20) after

vaccinations against Corona are

known

in the Scandinavian country

.

The

Norwegian Medicines Agency

writes, according to

factisk

: “In several of these

deaths

, the person who reported them stated that they suspected no connection to the vaccine and that the cause was an underlying disease, but that they reported the death just in case Has."

Deaths after coronavirus vaccinations: All fatalities examined were from nursing homes and over 80

Regardless of this, it cannot be ruled out that frequent

side effects

could have contributed

to serious consequences for

frail patients

, according to the report by the

Norwegian Medicines Agency

.

In

Norway

- as in many other countries - the

over-80s and health workers are

vaccinated first.

The vaccines sometimes need several weeks and a booster to take effect.

As

Faktisk

further writes, all of the

13 deaths

examined occurred

in nursing homes

and the

fatalities were over 80 or even over 90 years old

.

"They suffered from serious underlying illnesses and 'severe frailty,'" the report said.

Corona risk groups: Side effects of coronavirus vaccinations cannot be ruled out

In

Germany

, the

death of a 90-year-old senior woman from Weyhe near Bremen after a corona vaccination

caused a stir.

The public prosecutor's office in Verden then had a special autopsy carried out - which was also not found to be related to the vaccination against the virus.

In

Norway

, the Institute for Health (Folkehelseinstituttet) has

explicitly pointed out to

medical staff, according to

tagesschau.de

, "that

even small side effects

such as an allergic reaction could have serious consequences

for

extremely frail people and the seriously ill

".

With a view to patients with a short life expectancy in intensive care units, it is advisable to weigh up whether or not to be vaccinated.

(pm)