10 Dec 2020

COVID vaccine causes an allergic reaction

From Afternoons, 1:27 pm on 10 December 2020

Two health workers in the UK have suffered allergic reactions to the COVID vaccine, prompting warnings that people with a history of allergies should avoid the vaccination.

Jesse speaks to Dr Nikki Turner, the director of Auckland University's Immunisation centre about why people without allergies shouldn't be put off getting the vaccination.

In this file image courtesy of the Henry Ford Health System, volunteers are given the Moderna mRNA-1273 Coronavirus Efficacy (COVE), on 5 August, 2020, in Detroit, Michigan.

Photo: AFP / Henry Ford Health System