Today a Tennessee nurse #TiffanyDover passed out on "live" TV after taking the #COVID19Vaccine. Yesterday two healthcare workers who got the vaxx were hospitalized. This is only Week #1. These are the cases that we should be getting alerts about. #brandyvaughan pic.twitter.com/iKVeGaGRi2
— Jeff Lorenzo 🥂 (@jbellamar) December 18, 2020
Nurse at a Chattanooga hospital in Tennessee, the United States fainted at a news conference after getting the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine injection. The nurse, Tiffany Dover, was attending a news conference when she raised her hand to her head, apologised, and said she was feeling dizzy.
“Sorry, I’m feeling really dizzy,” the nurse is heard saying before walking away and fainting on live TV. In the video, she can be seen fainting as doctors catch her and lower her to the ground.
When attending the press conference, Tiffany Dover said, “All of my staff, you know, we are excited to get the vaccine. We are in the COVID unit, so therefore, you know, my team will be getting the first chances to get the vaccine.”
According to the AP article, Tiffany Dover later clarified to reporters that she has a condition that often causes her to faint when she senses discomfort.
When he recovered, she said, “It just hit me all of the sudden, I could feel it coming on. I felt a little disoriented but I feel fine now and the pain in my arm is gone.”
The fainting nurse video circulated quickly without a background, with some social media users voicing apprehensions about taking the vaccine.
The United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirms it has received records of patients fainting following almost all vaccinations, and scientists suspect it is due to discomfort or anxiety connected with the vaccination process.
