CDC: allergic reactions including anaphylaxis after receipt of the first dose of Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine

During December 14–23, 2020, monitoring by the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System detected 21 cases of anaphylaxis after administration of a reported 1,893,360 first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine (11.1 cases per million doses); 71% of these occurred within 15 minutes of vaccination

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Cornwall: near 500% rise in cases of Covid-19 in children aged 0-4yrs over Xmas

A week on week comparison of the rates of infection per hundred thousand reveal that some of the largest increases in percentages in the week from December 24 (Christmas Eve) to December 31 (New Year’s Eve) are in children under four years old (increase of 485.7%), those aged 70 to 74 (367.2%) and 85 to 89 (433.3%).  More...

Beijing clamps down to fight Covid surge

“Just one night after announcing it was entering the “wartime mode,” North China’s Hebei Province, which neighbors Chinese capital Beijing, began putting in place various COVID-19 prevention measures on Wednesday amid a sudden spike in coronavirus infections, including controls on highways passing through Hebei leading to Beijing and other provinces, stopping sales of railway tickets to Beijing, suspending classes in schools, implementing closed-off managements in residential communities in provincial capital Shijiazhuang, and taking sweeping nucleic acid tests.  More...