Katie Price has stressed the Covid-19 vaccine is ‘important’ following her son’s hospitalisation. Harvey, 18, was rushed to Great Ormond Street Hospital with a temperature, hours after having the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine on Friday. The teenager, who recently appeared with his mum in a BBC documentary about his day to day life, has since been released and is now at home. It is extremely rare for people to get a severe reaction from the coronavirus vaccine, which has been approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) as both safe and effective.

Katie, 42, said that people should not be concerned by Harvey’s experience and is ‘happy’ her eldest child has been vaccinated. She said: ‘I am in awe of the NHS – they are amazing, without them Harvey would not be here today.

‘I don’t want anyone worrying about him as he’s fine now at home eating carrot cake. ‘Despite Harvey’s reaction, he is one of a kind, the Covid jab is so important especially for those in high risk categories. ‘I am so much happier in the knowledge Harvey is safer now he has had his.’ Harvey, who Katie shares with footballer Dwight Yorke, was born with a series of complex conditions including Prader-Willi syndrome and septo-optic dysplasia, as well as autism and ADHD. The mother and son appeared in an Instagram video together to update fans on what happened.

Harvey said he ‘wasn’t feeling right’ after his ‘blood injection’. Mum-of-five Katie explained: ‘So because of Harvey’s needs and Harvey’s complex medication he’s on, he had his Covid [vaccine] the Oxford one and he just had his vaccination and his reaction was a really really high temperature, 39.9 and obviously with Harvey, I have to really keep an eye and I couldn’t get his temperature down.