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The First 15 Minutes: Anaphylaxis After COVID Vaccination – Medscape
Most postvaccination symptoms are expected and not serious, although clinicians should be ready to manage the rare case of anaphylaxis.
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This transcript has been edited for clarity.
We now have two mRNA COVID vaccines.
For both, a two-dose series of the same vaccine is more than 90% effective. Pfizer/ BioNTech’s mRNA COVID vaccine is FDA authorized for those 16 and older. Moderna’s mRNA COVID vaccine is authorized for those 18 and older.
The phase 3 studies on both vaccines are huge: nearly 44,000 for the Pfizer vaccine and 30,000 participants for…
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