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Vaccinate those at risk worldwide before children WHO
Article by May 8, 2021
SOURCE: AFP The World Health Organization on Friday urged governments to refrain from vaccinating children against coronavirus until the elderly and at-risk worldwide have received the vaccine.
The WHO plea comes after Canada authorised the use of Pfizer vaccine on children, with other rich nations set to follow suit.
“The priority really needs to be getting vaccine to all countries in the world for the highest priority groups before we start advancing to groups that have much lower risk of disease,” said Dr Kate O’Brien, director of the WHO’s vaccines and immunisation department.
OMS pide vacunar contra el COVID-19 a todos los mayores antes que a los adolescentes elpais.com.uy - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from elpais.com.uy Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Family looking for answers: Woman with vaccine side-effects died of blood clot
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By Fakiha Baig, The Canadian Press on May 6, 2021.
People line up outside an immunization clinic to get their Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Edmonton, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
EDMONTON – Wilf Lowenberg says his longtime family friend might still be alive had a hospital emergency department taken her side-effects from a COVID-19 shot more seriously.
Lisa Stonehouse’s family has said she went to the ER at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital in Edmonton on April 29 with a severe headache after receiving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine about a week earlier.
Family looking for answers: Woman with vaccine side-effects died of blood clot
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People line up outside an immunization clinic to get their Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Edmonton, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
EDMONTON – Wilf Lowenberg says his longtime family friend might still be alive had a hospital emergency department taken her side-effects from a COVID-19 shot more seriously.
Lisa Stonehouse’s family has said she went to the ER at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital in Edmonton on April 29 with a severe headache after receiving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine about a week earlier.
On Monday, she was taken off life support, 12 days after she got the shot, Lowenberg said.