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ItsjustMe

(11,971 posts)
Sun Dec 13, 2020, 05:48 PM Dec 2020

FDA commissioner's advice on taking the vaccine if you have allergies (CNN)

FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn spoke to CNN's Jake Tapper about Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine as the first batch was shipped out across the US. Hahn advised Americans with allergies to read the vaccine's product labeling on the FDA's website to check for any components that might cause an allergic reaction.

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FDA commissioner's advice on taking the vaccine if you have allergies (CNN) (Original Post) ItsjustMe Dec 2020 OP
More info on the ingredients: mzmolly Dec 2020 #1
Thanks! SWBTATTReg Dec 2020 #2
You're most mzmolly Dec 2020 #5
I wish they could say, for example, if you are allergic to penicillin, do not take this vaccine Escurumbele Dec 2020 #3
Yes. Hopefully medical providers mzmolly Dec 2020 #4
Salts, fats (lupids), the component of the virus (the antiviral portion), and they recommend the SWBTATTReg Dec 2020 #6
Agree. mzmolly Dec 2020 #7
No nanoparticles, no computers, no microprocessors dalton99a Dec 2020 #8
Darn! mzmolly Dec 2020 #9

Escurumbele

(4,043 posts)
3. I wish they could say, for example, if you are allergic to penicillin, do not take this vaccine
Sun Dec 13, 2020, 06:08 PM
Dec 2020

or whatever type of allergic reaction which is more non-doctor understandable.

mzmolly

(52,714 posts)
4. Yes. Hopefully medical providers
Sun Dec 13, 2020, 06:23 PM
Dec 2020

will be able to break things down, before people head in for the vaccine. It sounds like the ingredients are pretty common, other than the viral component? That said, I hope we'll have more than one to choose from, before too long.

SWBTATTReg

(26,144 posts)
6. Salts, fats (lupids), the component of the virus (the antiviral portion), and they recommend the
Sun Dec 13, 2020, 06:28 PM
Dec 2020

shot w/ a little more salts (body will absorb), so pretty basis, from my understanding...again, pretty straight forward. Actually from my limited understanding of the medical arts, simple is better, I am guessing, less to get messed up w/ in the body, simple mechanism to deliver the one thing that will allow the human body to make its own copies of the antibodies...

Thanks again...whoever wrote these articles deserves kudos!!

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