CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO WORSHIP. WELL, HERE NOW IS HOW MAINE IS
DOING ON THE VACCINATION FRONT
CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL SAYS
AS OF THIS MORNING MORE THAN
ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY FOUR
AS OF THIS MORNING MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY FOUR4@ THOUSAND MAINERS OR NEARLY 13
PERCENT OF THE GENERAL
POPULATION HAD GOTTEN THEIR
FIRST DOSE OF A COVID-19
VACCINE.
4@MORE THAN SEVENTY ONE THOUSAND
OR ABOUT FIVE POINT THREE
PERCENT HAD GOTTEN BOTH DOSES
SINCE VACCINATIONS FIRST BECAME
AVAILABLE.
WE'VE BEEN HEARING ABOUT
OCCASIONAL SMALL SIDE EFFECTS
THINGS LIKE SORENESS OR
SWELLING AT THE INJEC4@TION SITE
OR FEVER, CHILLS, TIREDNESS OR
A HEADACHE.
BUT4@ OCCASIONALLY THERE ARE
SERIOUS ADVERSE REACTIONS TO
THE VACCINE AND FEDERAL
AUTHORITIES ARE TRACKING THOSE
REACTIONS THROUGH AN ONLINE
DATABASE4@ NEWSCENTERMAINE HANNA
DINEEN HAS BEEN LOOKING INTO
HOW THAT WORKS HANNHA4@4@4@ ADVE
EVENT REPORTING SYSTEM OR
BETTER KNOWN AS VEIRS.
NOW IT'S NOT NEW VAERS HAS BEEN@
AROUND FOR MORE THAN TWO
DECADES AND IT'S CO MONITORED
BY THE CDC4@ AND THE FEDERAL DRG
ADMINISTRATION THE FDA NOW IT'S
USED TO MONITOR4@ ADVERSE
REACTIONS FOR ALL VACCINES MOST
RECENTLY THE COVID-19 VACCINES
REALLY SET4@ SO THAT INFORMATION
COULD BE OBTAINED WHEN VACCINES
ARE GIVEN4@ THERE'S SOME UNUSUAL
OR UNEXPECTED REACTION.
THERE'S A DATABASE OF ADVERSE
VACCINE REACTIONS NOW INCLUDING
THE COVID-19 VACCINES APPROVED
FOR EMERGENCY USE. 4@
IT'S A NICE SYSTEM IN THAT
INDIVIDUALS CAN REPORT TO
THEMSELVES.
ANYONE CAN REPORT WHILE
PATIENTS CAN REPORT ANY4@
REACTION.
HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS ARE
REQUIRED TO REPORT SERIOUS4@
REACTION4@S IF THERE'S DEATH OR
HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS ARE REQUIRED TO REPORT SERIOUS4@ REACTION4@S IF THERE'S DEATH ORA
LIFE THREATENING ADVERSE EVENT
OR IF SOMEONE REQUIRES
HOSPITALIZATION.
THE FDA AND CDC USE THE DATA TO
SPOT CONCERNING TRENDS AND
DETERMINE HOW OFTEN4@ AND HOW
WIDELY THEY HAPPEN.
THERE HAVE BEEN A FEW4@
OF ALLERGIC REACTIONS ARE
REPORTED TO THE VACCINE BEYOND
OUT THERE HAVEN'T BEEN
NEW CONCERNING SIGNS AS4@
OF MONDAY.
THE DATABASE SHOWS ONE HUNDRED
ADVERSE REACTIONS TO COVID-194@
VACCINES IN MAINE NINE OF THEM
CHARACTERIZED AS SERIOUS.
BUT THERE'S DATA4@ DOESN'T TELL
VACCINES IN MAINE NINE OF THEM CHARACTERIZED AS SERIOUS. BUT THERE'S DATA4@ DOESN'T TELLA
COMPLETE STORY WITH ANY WARNING
SYSTEM.
IT'S ONLY AS GOOD AS THE PEOPLE
THAT REPORT THE DATA BECAUSE
PATIENTS CAN SUBMIT REPORTS
INFORMATION MAY BE INCOMPLETE,
INACCURATE, COINCIDENTAL4@ OR
UNVERIFIABLE.
AS FOR HOSPITALS REPORTING WHO4@
REPORTS TO WHERAS HOW THEY DO
IT AND THE TIME FRAME
OF REPORTING VARIES FROM
HOSPITAL TO HOSPITAL.
THERE'S A HEIGHTENED
SENSITIVITY TO AT THIS
COMPLETED AS QUICKLY AS WE
POSSIBLY CAN WHILE THERE ARE
JUST4@ FOUR REPORTED CASES
OF PATIENTS RECEIVING
EPINEPHERINE OR AN EPIPEN4@
FOLLOWING VACCINATION, A SOURCE
WORKING INSIDE THE BRUNSWICK
REC CENTER VACCINATION SITE RUN
BY MIDCOAST HOSPITAL TELLS
NEWSCENTERMAINE4@ THERE HAVE BEN
FIVE INSTANCES JUST AT THAT
SITE OF EPIPEN4@ AND E.R. VISITS
STAT MIDCOAST HOSPITAL'S CHIEF
MEDICAL OFFICER CHRIS BOVEY
SAID WAS LIKELY ON MONDAY ABOUT@
FIVE TIMES PROBABLY.
BOVEY SAYS FOLLOWING CDC
GUIDELINES4@ A SITE HAS BEEN
LYBREL IN EPINEPHERINE CAN USE
PARTICULARLY FOR4@ PATIENTS WHO
HAVE USED ONE IN THE PAST.
WE WOULD AIR ON THE ON THE SIDE
OF GIVING EPINEPHERINE RATHER
THAN OBSERVING SOMEONE AND
LETTING THEIR4@ CONDITION WORSEN
IN TERMS OF THOSE EVENTS NOT
ALL BEING LOGGED VAERS WHERE DO
WE GO FROM HERE?
YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
I'LL GO RIGHT TO OUR BLOG AND
WE'LL VERIFY EVERYONE THAT WE
I'LL GO RIGHT TO OUR BLOG AND WE'LL VERIFY EVERYONE THAT WE4@ CALLED NINE ONE ONE ON AND MAKE
SURE4@ WE CHECK TO MAKE SURE THT
THAT'S IN THERE.
BOVEY SAYS ANY4@ INSTANCE WHERE
MEDICAL PERSONNEL INTERVENE
SHOULD IT BE REPORTED THE MORE
WE REPORT THE BETTER FOR
CERTAIN.
NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT4@.
NOW4@ EACH HOSPITAL OFFICIAL THT
I SPOKE WITH UNDERSCORED THE
IMPORTANCE OF REMINDING FOLKS
THAT THESE ADVERSE REACTIONS
4@THEY'RE STILL VERY RARE EVEN T
THAT BRUNSWICK'S SITE W4@HERE
THERE WAS FIVE CASES4@
EPINEPHERINE POLLONE USE POST
VACCINE THAT'S OUT OF MORE THAN@
TEN THOUSAND VACCINATIONS.
SO IT'S A RATE4@ OF POINT ZERO
FIVE PERCENT.
SO STILL REALLY LOW
ADDITIONAL4@LY4@, THEY SAY THE A
SHOWS THAT YOUR CHANCES
OF GETTING COVID-19 SEVERELY
ILL FROM COVID-19 ARE STILL FAR
GREATER THAN HAVING A SEVERE
ADVERSE REACTION TO THE VACCINE
AND4@ THIS IS CLEARLY WHY THEY'E
ALREADY ASKING FOLKS TO WAIT 30
MINUTES4@4@ AFTER THEY GET THE
VACCINE TO STAY THERE AND