Most people with allergies should be safe taking the COVID-19 vaccine, says a University of Washington doctor. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has counted at least 29 people developing severe allergic reactions to new COVID-19 vaccines out of 5.3 million people who have been vaccinated. The 29 had suffered anaphylaxis, a life-threatening allergic reaction that can be controlled through an epinephrine injection.
Inmates and staff members at the state s prisons, including Forsyth Correctional Center, who are 65 and older are eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccines, but state correction officials don t have an immediate timetable when the shots will be administered. We are not scheduling specific prisons per se, said Dr. Arthur Les Campbell, the medical director of the N.C. Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice.