The Philippine Food and Drug Administration is planning to issue its own advisory on the usage of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for very old and individuals.
“Wala naman po sa ngayon, di pa rin po nagbabago ng guidelines on the use. Ini-investigate na po ang nangyari. Mukhang magkakaroon lang po siguro ng parang revision at advisory against the use of the vaccine on ‘yun pong mga very old at very frail,” Domingo said in an interview with ABS-CBN News.
The FDA has issued its first emergency use authorization to Pfizer last week.
However, the FDA may be a “revision and advisory” against its use on “very old and very frail” individuals.
Some 28 people have reportedly died in Norway after getting their COVID-19 vaccine shot.
“Kasi mukhang ang nangyari po sa Norway is pati ‘yung mga matatandang-matanda na at mahihina ay binakunahan. Mga terminally ill po ata pati ‘yung iba. Mga nasa nursing home po kasi,”‘he added.
Norway health authorities said that they don’t see any link between the vaccines and the deaths.
Of the 13 cases analyzed in detail so far, “they are people of advanced age, are frail and have serious illnesses, all of them,” the director of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health Camilla Stoltenberg said in a briefing. (TDT)
