Health worker who had the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine now in intensive care after going into anaphylactic shock
A health worker has gone into anaphylactic shock after receiving the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.
The worker is reportedly in intensive care after getting the vaccine at Gold Coast University Hospital.
They are being treated but their current condition is unknown.
About 30,000 people were vaccinated as of Friday according to figures released on Sunday.
Those who got the shots included 8,110 aged care and disability residents from 117 care facilities, the national Health Department figures showed.
The federal government previously said it hoped to be giving 60,000 injections per week by the end of February, with about four million people immunised by early April.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the arrival of the first 300,000 doses of the AstraZenaca vaccine in Sydney on Sunday would help speed up the process.
The vaccine, developed by Oxford University, was to be administered to its first patients in the second week of March, but was moved up to Monday.
The Queensland Government has issued a ‘show cause’ notice to Healthcare Australia for a disastrous mistake last week.
The federal government contractor injected two elderly Queenslanders with four times the recommended dose of the Pfizer vaccine at the Carseldine aged-care centre, in Brisbane’s north last Tuesday.
More to come.
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