Covid: Six with autoimmune conditions developed shingles after Pfizer vaccine
Daily MailShingles may be a rare side effect of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, a new study claims. A new study found that 1.2% of patients with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases developed shingles, a skin rash also known as herpes zoster, compared to no patients in the control group Patients were times more likely to develop the condition following the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine than the second dose 'We cannot say the vaccine is the cause at this point,' lead researcher Dr Victoria Furer a rheumatologist at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center told The Jerusalem Post. Comparatively, no patients in the control group who received the vaccine developed shingles, either after the first or second shot. Furer told The Jerusalem Post that five of the six patients who developed shingle had mild cases of their autoimmune disease, meaning they shoyld not have been at increased risk. She added that a larger study is needed to confirm the findings and that one recommendation could be for AIIRD patients get vaccinated against shingles before getting their COVID-19 shot to reduce the risk.
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