Now it is the annual flu outbreak season again, and there is another COVID-19 pandemic this year. Infection with influenza will cause a short-term decrease in immunity and may create opportunities for the new coronavirus. Therefore, it is also very urgent to get influenza vaccination this year, and there are many people receiving the injection.
Canadian mother Jenna Bardarson, who lives in Brandon, Manitoba, has a three-year-old daughter Dali. In order to protect the health of her children and to allow the family to survive this extraordinary period of the epidemic, Jenna made an appointment for her and her daughter to have the influenza vaccine for Brandon Keystone Centre on November 24.
Keystone Centre is also one of the vaccination centers in Manchester Province.
Jenna Bardarson and his daughter
And something happened.
According to CBC, although Jenna and her child also received two shots, they did not get the flu vaccine. Both of them were vaccinated with a dose of Pfizer vaccine respectively. The child was as vaccinated as his mother, and was also an ordinary adult version!
"We went there to get the flu vaccine, but they didn't get the flu vaccine, but instead gave us two adult Pfizer vaccines," Jenna said.
Currently, children aged 5-11 in Canada are also licensed to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, but the dose of children's vaccine is only one-third of the adult vaccine .
And like Dali, a child who is not even 5 years old, is not eligible to receive any new crown vaccine!
As for mother Jenna, although she is an adult, she has received two doses of the new crown vaccine, but according to the advice of Pfizer and the Canadian Public Health Agency, Jenna will have to wait until January next year to qualify.
When Keystone Centre told Jenna that they were wrong, Jenna was shocked.
After all, this is a vaccination, not because you were sent to the wrong product when you bought something on Amazon...
"I'm very worried about my daughter. We are now starting to feel the side effects of the vaccine." This important thing will be mistaken, and Jenna was very angry.
Jenna said that she and her daughter had side effects of headaches and fever after getting vaccinated. A few days later, Dali even started vomiting.
Moreover, more than a week after the accident, local health officials could not give Jenna a reasonable explanation, as well as whether the child's health will be affected by the vaccine in the future. Now I can only rely on Jenna to check online by herself...
But who knows? I'm afraid even Pfizer has not completed the clinical experiment of vaccinating children under 5 years old. What problems will a three-year-old child get after receiving the adult dose of vaccine? No one can say.
Jenna hopes to share with more people what happened to herself and her daughter. I hope that when you get vaccinated in the future, you must confirm: What vaccine does the nurse get you?
"If you are going to bring your child or you are vaccinated by yourself...please check carefully with the health care workers who serve you or anyone who does it to make sure they have the right medications," she said.
CBC then asked the Manitoba’s health department about the handling of this matter. The health department did not say whether this was the first time someone had been mistakenly replaced with the new crown vaccine for influenza vaccination, but only said that the problem of using medication incorrectly like this rarely occurs.
They said they are investigating this error.
The health department said that parents "were told that an error occurred and provided information about the risk, but the possibility of a health risk in this case is very low".
It seems that Canada is really not short of COVID-19 vaccines now.
