Australia places no upper age limit on Pfizer coronavirus vaccine
CANBERRA, Australia — Australian regulators have decided to place no upper age limit on use of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine despite reports of dozens of deaths among the elderly in Norway.
Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration said in a statement Tuesday that it received reports on Jan. 14 of about 30 deaths in more than 40,000 elderly people vaccinated with Pfizer PFE, -2.26%. But it added that “no causal link between vaccination and deaths could be established.”
The agency says that “elderly patients can receive this vaccine and there is no cap on the upper age limit.”
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