As Ontario makes all individuals six months of age or older eligible to receive the monovalent COVID-19 vaccine, new evidence is showing an extraordinarily low number of adverse events following immunization.
A new report published by Public Health Ontario earlier this month showed that Ontario has administered more than 38 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine since 2020, with adverse events reported on 23,002 occasions. That would correspond with an incidence rate of just 0.06 per cent.
The most commonly reported “serious” adverse event following immunization was myocarditis or pericarditis with a total of 821 reports, or roughly 22.2 incidents per one million doses of vaccine administered. He said that he is hopeful the research will be helpful in convincing some people who may be “reluctant due to safety concerns” to get vaccinated.
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