New safety info on #CovidVaccine via @CDCgov ACIP meeting https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2021-01/06-COVID-Shimabukuro.pdf
~1 in 12 People registered for vsafe & checked in at least 1x
>15K Pregnant people reported pregnancy to Vsafe(& As 1 of them, I can verify they do call to follow up & request OB records)





injection site pain, fatigue, chills are common.
However, it is important to look at the randomized studies where the baseline rate of some of these in the placebo arm was 20 to 30%!
good reminder that the baseline incidence of these things are not zero(3/)


There have been concerns about deaths in the very elderly after news reports from Norway, sometimes for getting the baseline mortality in this vulnerable population
these data show no signal of
mortality s/p vaccine (4/)


The bottom line here is
they are systematically collecting data (good!)
The vaccine continues to appear safe
We will eventually have lots of data on the pregnant population (But shows why we should have been included earlier) (5/5)


