A head nurse at a Tennessee hospital fainted minutes after receiving Pfizer’s Covid-19 mRNA vaccine on Thursday.
Tiffany Dover, a nurse manager at CHI Memorial Hospital, received the vaccine injection live on television before addressing the news media.
News Channel 9 reports that minutes after speaking to reporters, Dover turned, walked away from the rostrum and fainted.
Doctors managed to catch her before she hit the floor. The doctors say the vaccine’s ingredients didn’t cause Dover’s fainting episode.
“It just hit me all of a sudden,” she told Channel 9. “I could feel it coming on. I felt a little disoriented but I feel fine now, and the pain in my arm is gone,” she said. Dover said she always faints when she feels pain.
Hospitals around the country have televised their nurses receiving the vaccine to ease public anxiety about the vaccine rollout.
Vice President Mike Pence became the highest-profile U.S. citizen to receive the vaccine on Friday. After getting the jab in his left arm Pence told reporters he didn’t feel a thing.
Former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton also plan to roll up their sleeves to get the shot live on television.
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