COPENHAGEN – Norwegian officials have adjusted their advice on who gets the COVID-19 vaccine in light of a small number of deaths in older people, leaving it up to each doctor to consider who should be vaccinated.The Norwegian Medicines Agency on Thursday reported a total of 29 people had suffered side effects, 13 of them fatal.
All the deaths occurred among patients in nursing homes and all were over the age of 80.The agency listed fever and nausea as side effects that “may have led to the deaths of some frail patients,” Sigurd Hortemo of the Norwegian Medicines Agency said in the body’s first report of the side effects.More than 30,000 people have received the first shot of the Pfizer or Moderna coronavirus vaccine in the Scandinavian.