Deaths of 23 elderly patients who received the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine have prompted officials in Norway to explore the prospect that adverse reactions to the COVID vaccine may have contributed to a fatal outcome in some frail patients.
Sigurd Hortemo, who is the chief physician at the Norwegian Medicines Agency, noted that “common adverse reactions to mRNA vaccines, such as fever and nausea, may have contributed to a fatal outcome in some frail patients.”
While the director of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health stresses about 45 people die every day at nursing homes in Norway, it is not a given that the deaths are related to the vaccine.
The Norwegian Medicines Agency repeated its already established advice — do not give the vaccine to terminally ill patients.