[HN Gopher] Norway investigates 23 deaths in frail elderly patie...
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       Norway investigates 23 deaths in frail elderly patients after
       vaccination
        
       Author : simonebrunozzi
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2021-01-15 22:10 UTC (50 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.bmj.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bmj.com)
        
       | mullingitover wrote:
       | > "We are not alarmed or worried about this, because these are
       | very rare occurrences and they occurred in very frail patients
       | with very serious disease,"
       | 
       | Please don't hype weak claims about vaccine dangers, people.
        
       | skzv wrote:
       | > The agency has investigated 13 of the deaths so far and
       | concluded that common adverse reactions of mRNA vaccines, such as
       | fever, nausea, and diarrhoea, may have contributed to fatal
       | outcomes in some of the frail patients.
       | 
       | We have known that the vaccines can cause a strong immune
       | response, is it really unbelievable it can kill very frail
       | patients?
        
         | sharken wrote:
         | Certainly not, which begs the question: Should the vaccine be
         | administered to all, it seems that no is the right answer at
         | the moment.
        
         | kodyo wrote:
         | I'm sure they signed a waiver. The government is safe.
        
       | u678u wrote:
       | best site I've seen to track global vaccine distribution. Its
       | quite amazing that the US is injecting 844k doses per day.
       | https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...
        
         | leesec wrote:
         | With any sense we'd be tripling that number. We've got nearly
         | 700 million shots to give.
        
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