Should you be worried about allergic reactions to the Pfizer vaccine? - a podcast by ABC News

from 2020-12-10T17:01

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It's been a huge week for coronavirus vaccine news: mass vaccination programs have begun in the UK, more scientific data has been published about the Oxford vaccine and it's all looking quite promising.

But one worry has popped up in the UK with the Pfizer vaccine - some patients have reported allergic reactions after being vaccinated.

The UK regulator has now said that anyone with a history of anaphylaxis to a vaccine, medicine or food should not get the vaccine.

So on today's Coronacast, what could be going on?

Also on today's show:

* Could the Chinese vaccine have run into some problems?

* What do the new data published in The Lancet tell us about the Astra vaccine?

* And we reveal your comments about what you'd do differently if you got a coronavirus do-over

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