Dr. Robert Murphy: ‘People that have to carry an EpiPen…they should definitely not take this vaccine.’

Posted: Dec 11, 2020 / 01:57 PM CST / Updated: Dec 11, 2020 / 01:59 PM CST

Food and Drug Administration building is shown Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 in Silver Spring, Md. A U.S. government advisory panel convened to decide whether to endorse emergency use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to help conquer the outbreak that has killed close to 300,000 Americans. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Northwestern Medicine Infectious Diseases Specialist Dr. Robert Murphy joins John Williams to talk about the logistics of the vaccine’s distribution in Chicago, and how the first healthcare workers to take it fared. And Dr. Murphy has good news for those who are afraid of taking the vaccine.

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