Pfizer Vaccine Safe for Elderly Despite Norway Scare, WHO Says - BNN

and BioNTech SE’s COVID-19 vaccine contributed to the deaths of elderly people and urged that the shot still be used

Reports of deaths “are in line with the expected, all-cause mortality rates and causes of death in the sub-population of frail, elderly individuals, and the available information does not confirm a contributory role for the vaccine in the reported fatal events,” the WHO Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety said in a statement on Friday

The risk-benefit balance of the vaccine “remains favorable in the elderly.”

Initial cases reported last week in Norway had raised alarm, with authorities saying it was possible that vaccine side-effects could aggravate underlying illnesses even as they expected some nursing-home residents to die shortly after being vaccinated due to their frail underlying health