While the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 is starting in a climate of mistrust, the National Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM) has strengthened its monitoring system in order to follow
“in real time”
the foreseeable or unexpected adverse effects.
Doctors, as well as people who have been vaccinated and those around them, can report them either directly to the pharmacovigilance center in their region, or to a dedicated portal on the Internet.
The Comirnaty vaccine, marketed by Pfizer and BioNTech, has been the subject of a phase 3 trial that involved nearly 44,000 people.
"The vast majority of the events observed are not really side effects,"
indicates Professor Bruno Hoen, director of medical research at the Institut Pasteur.
They come under what we call reactogenicity, that is to say, mild symptoms that appear within 48 hours of the injection and disappear quickly. ”
Pain at the injection site, usually
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