My husband, who’s a neurologist at Yale New Haven Hospital, is one of many who had a worse experience with his second shot than his first.īut much like any other learning process, in this one repetition is key. 2 is more likely to pack a punch-in large part because the effects of the second shot build iteratively on the first. But the two COVID-19 vaccines cleared for emergency use in the United States, made by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, already have reputations for raising the hackles of the immune system: In both companies’ clinical trials, at least a third of the volunteers ended up with symptoms such as headaches and fatigue fevers like my husband’s were less common.ĭose No. Side effects are a natural part of the vaccination process, as my colleague Sarah Zhang has written. All this misery was a sign that the immune cells in his body had been riled up by the second shot of a COVID-19 vaccine, and were well on their way to guarding him from future disease. And as I lay next to him, cinching blanket after blanket around his arms, I felt an immense sense of relief. For hours, he had been tossing in bed, exhausted but unable to sleep, nursing chills, a fever, and an agonizingly sore left arm. on Thursday morning, I woke to find my husband shivering beside me.
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