Analysis of Allergy and Hypersensitivity Reactions to COVID-19 Vaccines According to the EudraVigilance Database.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic presented a new challenge in modern medicine: the development of vaccines was followed by massive population vaccinations. A few reports on post-vaccination allergic reactions have made patients and medical personnel uneasy as to COVID-19 vaccines' allergic potential. Most of the studies in this area to date have been small, and some that were based on global databases skipped most of the allergic diseases and concentrated only on anaphylaxis. We aimed to analyze the incidence of serious allergic reactions based on the EudraVigilance (EV) database, regardless of the reported symptoms and allergy mechanism.

Methods

The total number of administrated vaccine doses was extracted on 5 October 2023 from Vaccine Tracker an

SUBMITTER: Romantowski J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11205009 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature