Covid vsccine

I know a handful of people who've received the second dose and all of them have had the same reaction, some needing a few days of recovery. It's a known issue and it's just the body reaction to the foreign material actually working.

Had dose #1 of Moderna a week ago. I was a bit fatigued the next day and my blood pressure was elevated for a couple of days. Other than that, not too bad. We'll see what happens when does #2 comes around. My daughter had dose #2 of Pfizer a couple of days ago. Dose #1 kicked the stuffing out of her, so we're looking at a less-than-ideal week.

I do hope that the government's increased focus on distribution (how's that for a diplomatic way of putting it) will help get the vaccine out to the whole country. My own potential immunity doesn't mean much if everyone around me can still get sick.

Ward, thanks for that article. It’s certainly interesting and does bring up some valid concerns, however it’s my personal and professional opinion that those adverse effects are being somewhat overstated. Or at least not being presented in context.

My day job is in critical care medicine. These days I work mostly in the NICU. We just about always see adverse effects when we vaccinate our neonates. But by “adverse” I mean that they suffer (temporarily) from the effects of acute inflammation, caused by the vaccine. These effects can be serious. But, they’re also expected and evidence of the vaccines doing what they’re supposed to do.

So while I whole heartily believe that vaccines can pose a certain danger, I also believe that you really need to take a close, nuanced look at what’s happening in context. Which isn’t easy for most people who aren’t in the medical field...hell, it’s hard for most people IN the medical field too!

For the Moderna and Pfizer Covid vaccines I can say that adverse events are being pretty closely monitored and no one, IME, is shy about speaking up when something happens. At least on my City/State.

The problem here, as I see it, is health authorities are lumping in proven vaccine for stable diseases with unproven vaccines for mutating viral diseases. They aren't the same... there have already been mutations, and with regards to the influenza vaccine. It's brought out for one particular most common strain of flu but not all and becomes less effective in short order.

And the worst part of it is, those who are fully believing in the ad hoc unproven vaccines spew names like 'anti-vaxxer' at those of us exercising caution and urging others to do the same. It's quite insane.

When Covid-19 first emerged, if you were even saying this virus originated in China and that closing borders was immediately necessary, you were labeled a racist.

So you'll have to forgive me for being one of the cautious ones. because what I'm seeing as an alternative is a whole lot of politics or herd mentality brainwashing, and not enough medical science. My son is a research biologist, by the way. So I've been hearing a lot of "WTF are they doing now?" since February.

There have been mutations, only ones who are surprised by this is the media, but the best way to make these vaccines effective would have been a quick role out, we already blew that of course but so far the vaccines are still effective. The thing with the mutations, don’t pay to much attention to the location names given to them. They just mean the mutation was discovered there, doesn’t mean it originated there. Very few samples get geno typed, to expensive and time consuming.

I get being hesitant, but as that 1% who probably shouldn’t get the vaccine because there is a very real chance of ending up in the hospital afterwards let me explain the numbers game; we need approx. 80% of the population to have either survived Covid or to be vaccinated, when you consider how many weird immuno suppressed people there are out there with the doubters out there and let’s not forget the children who none of the vaccines have been approved for it’s going to be hard to get to 80%.
Is there a risk ? Sure but this thing really sucks and it has taken out far to many good people and way to many of the skilled people we need to treat and diagnose those who have been infected.
These vaccines are far less risky for most than this virus.
Yeah I had a late lunch with a virologist and a vaccine development guy who are working on the J&J version, both live in my building.

My wife had some pretty gnarly body aches, but that was the extent.  She was able to 'jump the line' as it were thanks to her line of work.  Me, I'm up for the poke next friday and looking forward to it. 

Smart! 🤣👍🏼

My wife and I both got first dose Pfizer on Wednesday. I had a pretty bad headache which aspirin took care of but nothing else. Her arm was really sore for a few days but nothing else. Can't complain, except we had to wait five weeks to get the appointment and had to drive over an hour to get there.

Second Moderna shot on Thursday, feel like a slight flu, starting to get back to normal.