Today is a year since the first vaccination against COVID-19, which took place at the hospital of the Ministry of Interior and Administration in Warsaw. Since then, more than 46.1 million vaccines have been administered and only 16,667 adverse vaccine reactions have been reported. Here are the data from the latest report made available on government websites.
December 27, 2022 is the day the first person was vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2. A total of 46,157,147 vaccines were administered throughout the year. The report prepared by the National Institute of Public He alth - National Institute of Hygiene (NIZP-PZH) shows that so far about 0.05 percent adverse reactions after vaccination, i.e. 16,667.
NOP ( adverse event following immunization ) is officially defined as a medical condition that occurred within four weeks of vaccination. It is a statement of a temporal relationship, not a cause-and-effect relationship.
As reported by the NIPH-PZH, out of 16,667 adverse post-vaccination reactions, the following were reported:
- 85 percent mild (e.g. redness and short-term soreness at the injection site, slight fever),
- 11.5 percent serious (e.g. convulsions and long-lasting fever),
- 3.5 percent severe (e.g. anaphylactic shock).
Doctors should report NOP to sanitary inspection. The patient can also do it by informing the Office for Registration of Medicinal Products, Medical Devices and Biocides about it.
How many people in Poland have taken the COVID-19 vaccine?
The Ministry of He alth announced that 20,922,571 Poles are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, i.e. two doses of preparations from pharmaceutical companies Pfizer / BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca or a single dose vaccine from Johnson & Johnson. From September 1 this year. vaccination is underway with the third dose of the vaccine (the so-called booster dose) - 6,089,485 people were administered.
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