{"id":1530,"date":"2021-08-07T20:08:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T20:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2021-08-07T20:08:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T20:08:46","slug":"pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-linked-to-rare-cases-of-eye-inflammation-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1530","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine linked to rare cases of eye inflammation &#8211; study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">The\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/pfizer\" target=\"_blank\">Pfizer<\/a>\u00a0coronavirus vaccine may be linked to a form of eye inflammation called uveitis, according to a multicenter Israeli study led by Prof. Zohar Habot-Wilner from Tel Aviv\u2019s Sourasky Medical Center.The research was conducted at Rambam Health Care Campus, Galilee Medical Center, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Kaplan Medical Center and Sourasky. It was accepted for publication by the peer-reviewed ophthalmology journal Retina.Habot-Wilner, head of the Uveitis Service at the hospital, found that 21 people (23 eyes) who had received two shots of the Pfizer\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/fda-aiming-to-give-final-approval-to-pfizer-vaccine-by-early-next-month-675782\" target=\"_blank\">vaccine<\/a>\u00a0developed uveitis within one to 14 days after receiving their first shot or within one day to one month after the second.Twenty-one people developed anterior uveitis, and two developed Multiple Evanescent White Dot Syndrome (MEWDS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">For More Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/health-science\/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-linked-to-rare-cases-of-eye-inflammation-study-675839\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/health-science\/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-linked-to-rare-cases-of-eye-inflammation-study-675839<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Pfizer\u00a0coronavirus vaccine may be linked to a form of eye inflammation called uveitis, according to a multicenter Israeli study led by Prof. Zohar Habot-Wilner from Tel Aviv\u2019s Sourasky Medical Center.The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[761,161,375,493,607,634],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concerns","category-eyesight","category-news-of-the-day","category-retina","category-vaccine-news","category-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}