The health authority in Norway has changed its guidelines for corona vaccinations after several deaths.
The focus is on specific people.
People all over the world have been fighting the
coronavirus for a year
- and this is likely to continue for a few more months.
Again and again, politics has to
sharpen
the
corona measures
, for example at the corona summit on January 19 *.
But the desired success has so far not been achieved.
And thus the
lockdown
remains
, while the great hope
lies
in the
corona vaccinations
, which should gradually enable a return to normal, as
reported by echo24.de
*.
Corona vaccinations: Norway warns of the consequences for older, frail patients
But with the
corona vaccines
, news from
Norway is
causing
uncertainty.
According to the
Bloomberg
news agency, the
Norwegian
health authority
warns
that the
Covid-19 vaccines
could be risky for the very old and seriously ill.
According to
Bloomberg,
this is the most cautious statement by a European health authority to date after the countries have started
to evaluate
the
side effects of
the corona vaccines in real use.
For this reason, the guidelines for
vaccinating
this group of people - the very old and seriously ill - against
Covid-19 have been
changed
in Norway
.
Specifically, it is about the side effects of the mRNA vaccines from Biontech / Pfizer *
(Corminaty vaccine) and the Covid-19 vaccine from
Moderna
, which have so far been approved in the EU.
For younger and fitter people, the
side effects would
usually not pose a threat, said Steinar Madsen, medical director of the Norwegian Health Authority, according to the
Ärzteblatt
.
Coronavirus: 23 seriously ill seniors in Norway died after vaccination
The background to the warning is an evaluation of the
deaths
in
Norway
.
According to the Norwegian authorities, 23 seniors died shortly after receiving their first
dose of vaccine
.
But they were all over 75 and had serious underlying illnesses.
An
autopsy was
performed in
13 deaths
.
According to the
Tagesschau
, the
head of the Norwegian Medicines Agency said
it could not be ruled out that
side effects of
the
corona vaccinations
might have caused death.
The Norwegian health authorities said a little later, according to
Bloomberg
, that there is no direct link between the recent deaths in older people who
were vaccinated
against
Covid-19
and the
vaccine
.
Side effects of
the
mRNA vaccines
from
Biontech / Pfizer
and
Moderna
can include fever, nausea, pain at the injection site, headache, muscle and joint pain as well as chills and fatigue.
After their
corona vaccination
,
patients are
always observed for up to 30 minutes in order to be able to react to possible allergic reactions.
As in Germany, older people and people in need of care are currently being
vaccinated
against
Corona
in Norway
.
Health authorities in Norway say there's no evidence of a direct link between the recent string of deaths among elderly people inoculated against Covid-19 and the vaccine they received https://t.co/KpndmR4jCv
- Bloomberg (@business) January 19, 2021
Corona vaccinations: Norway changes vaccination guidelines for frail people
Steinar Madsen from the
Norwegian health authority
said, however, that one was neither alarmed nor worried.
These are very rare incidents in very frail
patients
with a serious
underlying disease
.
The occurring
side effects of
the
vaccine
such as fever, nausea and diarrhea would have worsened the condition of the patients at best, as also
wa.de
* reported on the all-clear in Norway *.
Doctors in
Norway
were asked to continue with the
corona vaccinations
.
Nevertheless, the Norwegian Pharmacopoeia is now playing it safe and is now advising
caution
with very old, sick people.
The usual
side effects of
the
Covid 19 vaccinations
could lead to severe courses for these people with underlying diseases.
The changed instruction: In the
future, the doctors should carry out an individual assessment of
patients
who apply to these characteristics.
This applies to talking to patients and relatives about the risks and benefits of vaccination.
In
Germany
, too, there are people who died after the
corona vaccination
.
The
Paul Ehrlich Institute
loudly declared
FAZ
, from the temporal context, it is no causal link dissipate.
It was about patients with "serious underlying diseases".
Deaths after corona vaccinations in Norway - this is how Biontech and Pfizer react
As the
evening news
reports, took before the
approval
of the
BioNTech / Pfizer preparation
part around 43,500 people in the study.
However, only a few of the subjects were over 85 years old and none of the subjects was acutely ill or in an unstable condition.
According to a report by the
FAZ
, Biontech and Pfizer announced that they had been informed about the incidents in
Norway
and were working with the authorities there.
However, the companies also pointed out that in Norway at the moment mainly people who are very old and sometimes terminally ill are being vaccinated.
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