Heading west today to Aspen. Lori is in Vail. Should be home mid-afternoon. The boys are studying away. My back is getting a bit better but Lori has a Pars fracture according to Dr. B. No surgery now but good to know. Also Dr. C. apparently fractured her hip when Lori had her first fusion. Wow.
Today is also Dad’s birthday. What a great man who is still missed and in our thoughts and prayers.
Weather is headed our way with cold temps starting tomorrow night and then staying here for a while. Should be n the 30’s all the way until Christmas. I’m in Grand Junction tomorrow and need to get back before the snow. Time to get coffee and get ready for my 8am call with Slovenia. Be well, stay safe and God Bless.
Now straight from the UK today, hmmm. Who’s first in line for a vaccine?
Americans with ‘significant’ food or medicine allergies are urged NOT to have Pfizer shot after two UK healthcare workers suffer ‘anaphylactic reaction’ – so was Fauci right about Britain rushing its approval?
There are fears over how safe Pfizer’s COVID vaccine is after two British healthcare workers who were among the first in the world to receive it on Tuesday went into anaphylactic shock hours later, prompting British authorities to tell anyone with a ‘severe’ allergy to food or medicine not to get it. The FDA is due to meet tomorrow to discuss green-lighting the vaccine in America after being lambasted for taking a week longer than the Brits to get it off the ground. In a preliminary analysis posted online on Tuesday, one group of FDA scientists said it was safe and there was no mention of any type of allergic reaction. But Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is now warning people with a severe allergy to food or medicine not to get it. In America, that applies to at least 200,000 people who have food allergies and many more who have drug allergies. The two healthcare workers who were affected both carry EpiPens but no other information has been given. They are now said to be recovering well. Among the 20,000 people who were given the vaccine in Pfizer’s trial, 137 had allergic reactions but so did 111 people who were given the placebo, leading scientists to dismiss it as a potential hazard. Four people did get Bell’s Palsy after receiving it, a type of facial paralysis, but the trial scientists said it was not necessarily the jab that caused it and was on par with the general rate of Bell’s Palsy in the wider population.