Recently, children aged 5 to 11 in Canada can get the new crown vaccine . Some parents have taken their children to get vaccinated, and some are still waiting and watching. Although they have received text messages and emails that can be made for vaccination, they have also seen vaccination promotional information sent by the school.
Mother Jenna Badasen and three-year-old daughter Dali Source: Jenna Badasen
Just as society is paying close attention to the COVID-19 vaccine for young children, a very shocking accident happened in Manitoba, Canada!
Last week, mother Jenna Bardarson and three-year-old daughter Dali were mistakenly vaccinated with adult doses of Pfizer's new crown vaccine instead of the flu vaccine they were originally preparing to get.
Jenna Badason said her three-year-old daughter is healthy and lively and she made an appointment for herself and her daughter to have a regular flu shot once a year at the Keystone Center in Brandon.
But what I didn’t expect was, “We went there to get the flu vaccine, but they gave us both Pfizer vaccines”!
Source: Riley Laychuk/CBC
Keystone Center is also one of the Manitoba COVID-19 vaccination sites.
Although the children's version of the Pfizer -BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was recently approved for use in children aged 5 to 11, the dose of the vaccine is one third of the vaccine dose for people aged 12 and older. But children under the age of five, such as the three-year-old girl Dali mentioned above, are currently not allowed to receive any COVID-19 vaccine currently available.
Mom Jenna has also received two doses of COVID-19 vaccine, and the third dose will not be given until January next year, but unexpectedly this happened suddenly!
When the health care provider told her mother that she mistakenly gave them the COVID-19 vaccine, she was completely shocked! Very angry too!
"I'm very worried...my daughter, we're starting to have side effects on vaccines," said the mother and she and her daughter both had fever and headaches. A few days after the injection, the girl began to vomit.
Disappointingly, over a week after the accident, the mother said she still had no answers from health officials about how wrong vaccination could affect her or her daughter’s health.
Mother Jenna Badasen said she doesn't want her experience to stop others from getting vaccinated, but encourages people to be cautious and ask questions.
"If you are going to take your child, or you go to the flu vaccine yourself...please check carefully with the health care provider or anyone doing this to make sure they have the right vaccine".
Badasen said she understands that medical staff may feel tired and overworked, but the mis-vaccination is dangerous.
Manitoba Ministry of Health: Low risk of error
In an email statement to the media, the Manitoba Health and Elderly Care Center admitted that a woman and a three-year-old child had been wrongly vaccinated with an adult dose of Pfizer BioNTech vaccine and said the error had been investigated.
statement stated that such medication errors are "rare but they do happen". The province's health department said parents "were told about the wrong vaccination and information about the risks, which are very low in this case."
It is said that staff from the health authorities in Prairie Mountain area have contacted mother Badasen and discussed the matter further, and provided her with an update on the investigation.
Manitoba Provincial Health Department said: "A follow-up conversation was conducted with the vaccinated personnel involved, and as they immediately recognized the error and disclosed it to the supervisor, no further corrective measures were taken."
Badasen told the media that she hoped to take new measures to ensure that similar incidents did not happen to others.
If a child is vaccinated with the flu vaccine, he may need to wait for the COVID-19 vaccine. Since it is also the frequent period of influenza , Canada is providing flu vaccination to the public. In order to avoid similar accidents, staff and ordinary residents who do need to be vaccinated should be cautious!
In addition, the media has also reminded residents before: Has your child been vaccinated with the flu recently? They may have to wait for a COVID-19 vaccine.
Source: Ivanoh Demers/Radio-Canada
The federal government’s website shows, “If possible, children should not receive the Pfizer vaccine within 14 days after receiving other vaccines (such as influenza vaccines).”
The government said that this is a preventive measure to monitor any side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine, and the same preventive measures do not apply to people aged 12 to 17.
Related links: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/vaccination-children/covid-19.html
COVID-19 exposure in 118 schools in the Lower Mainland this week
Friday news said that Fraser Health and Vancouver Coastal Health had 118 schools on the COVID-19 exposure list, a slight increase from the previous week, but below the average so far in the school year.
All schools with recent exposures are in the Fraser Health Bureau, except for nine schools.
BC begins vaccinating children aged 5 to 11 this week. As of Monday afternoon, more than 108,000 of the approximately 350,000 children in the age group had registered for the first dose of the vaccine. The effort to get vaccinated at
is to prepare for the potential impact of the Omicron variant, which has a large number of mutations, although experts are still uncertain how these mutations affect infectivity, the severity of the disease and possible vaccine resistance.
BC confirmed the first Omicron case earlier this week, but the Delta variant remains the main strain of the province's coronavirus, which provincial health officials say has caused an increase in the number of infections in school clusters this school year.
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