FAIRBANKS, Alaska, December 19, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) —Three Alaskan hospital employees suffered anaphylactic reactions after being inoculated with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine this week.
Foundation Health Partners, the operator of Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, stated yesterday that one of its clinicians showed the symptoms 10 minutes after being vaccinated on Thursday. Foundation Health Partners did not name the clinician.
The female clinician was treated in the hospital with epinephrine and released “about six hours later,” Reuters reported.
She was the third health care worker in Alaska to suffer an adverse reaction to the shot. According to Reuters, two health care workers in Juneau were also treated after being vaccinated. One was “briefly hospitalized” for anaphylaxis on Tuesday, and another had a less severe reaction after being inoculated on Wednesday.
Alaska got its first shipment of the Pfizer vaccine on Sunday, and according to the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, 2,085 doses of the vaccine had been administered and reported to Alaskan health authorities as of December 17.
Despite her anaphylactic reactions to the shot, the unnamed clinician encouraged others to take the vaccine. In a statement included in Foundation Health Partners’ press release, the healthcare worker said that she would
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