{"id":3378,"date":"2021-01-22T10:20:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T18:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2021-02-22T22:16:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T06:16:14","slug":"allergic-reactions-including-anaphylaxis-after-receipt-of-the-first-dose-of-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/22\/allergic-reactions-including-anaphylaxis-after-receipt-of-the-first-dose-of-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Allergic Reactions Including Anaphylaxis After Receipt of the First Dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CDC identified 21 case reports of anaphylaxis during the administration of a reported 1,893,360 first doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine between December 14 and 23, 2020. Of these 21 cases, four people (19%) were hospitalized and 17 (81%) were treated in emergency departments. No deaths from anaphylaxis were reported. Seventeen (81%) of 21 patients with anaphylaxis had a documented history of allergies or allergic reaction; 7 (33%) had experienced an episode of anaphylaxis in the past. Commonly reported symptoms in non-anaphylaxis allergic reactions included itching, rash, itchy and scratchy sensations in the throat, and mild respiratory symptoms. <i>[EDITORIAL NOTE: The analysis in this article was included in an MMWR article summarized in the Lit Rep on January 6, 2021.<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7002e1\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7002e1<\/a><i>]<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Shimabukuro and Nair. (Jan 21, 2021). Allergic Reactions Including Anaphylaxis After Receipt of the First Dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine. JAMA. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2021.0600\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2021.0600<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CDC identified 21 case reports of anaphylaxis during the administration of a reported 1,893,360 first doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine between December 14 and 23, 2020. Of these 21 cases, four people (19%) were hospitalized and 17 (81%) were treated in emergency departments. No deaths from anaphylaxis were reported. Seventeen (81%) of 21 patients with&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/22\/allergic-reactions-including-anaphylaxis-after-receipt-of-the-first-dose-of-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[157,128,33],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-allergic-reaction","tag-immunization","tag-vaccines","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3379,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions\/3379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}