AFTER THEIR SECOND DOSE. THEY SAY -- DR. SAY THAT IS A GOOD SIGN AND THERE IS NO REASON FOR PEOPLE TO BE WORRIED ABOUT GETTING THE VACCINE. JESSE CHAPMAN WAS A PART OF MODERNA’S VACCINE TRIAL IN NOVEMBER. CHAPMAN SAYS OTHER THAN A SORE ARM, THE FIRST SHOT WAS A BREEZE. A MONTH LATER, THE SECOND SHOT WITH A DIFFERENT STORY. I WAS SHAKING UNCONTROLLABLY. >> COLLIN MAYFIELD HAD A SIMILAR REACTION. WHEN I WENT TO SLEEP, I WOKE UP WITH CHILLS AND A HEADACHE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. TO ME IT WAS MOR OF THE CHILLS AND ACHINESS AND FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS. DOCTORS SAY THAT THOSE REACTIONS, MORE LIKELY TO BE EXPERIENCED BY YOUNGER PEOPLE, ARE A -- TH BODIES SIGNS OF FIGHTING OFF A REFLECT -- AN INFECTION. >> YOU’RE HAVING A BIT MORE ROBUST IMMUNE RESPONSE. THEIR JOB IS TO TRY TO KILL OFF THE VIRUS, BUT THE SIDE EFFECT IS THEY MAKE YOU FEEL KIND OF CRUMMY. DR. FRANK HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN STUDY TRIALS FOR ACTS -- ASTRAZENECA AND PFIZER. SYMPTOMS CAN VARY DEPENDING ON WHICH VACCINE YOU GET. THE ASTRAZENECA AND PFIZER AR FLIP-FLOPPED, TAKE WHATEVER VACCINE IS AVAILABLE AT THE TIME. THE SHORT-TERM SIDE EFFECTS PALE IN COMPARISON TO THE ALTERNATIVE. >> IT IS OBVIOUSLY BETTER THAN GETTING THIS DISEASE THAT HAS KILLED MORE THAN 5000 PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY. >> THE SIDE EFFECTS, I WILL TAKE THAT ANY DAY OVER BEING ON A VENTILATOR. DR. SAY IT IS OK TO TAKE TYLENOL OR IBUPROFEN AFTER YOUR SECOND DOS
Doctors explain why younger adults may have harsher side effects from second COVID-19 vaccine dose
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Updated: 2:59 PM CST Mar 1, 2021
As a health care worker in the infectious disease center at the University of Cincinnati, Jaasiel Chapman was part of Moderna's vaccine trial in December. "We work firsthand, face to face with COVID every day," Chapman said. Other than a sore arm, Chapman said the first shot was a breeze. A month later, the second shot was a different story. "In the middle of the night, I woke up extremely cold. I was shaking uncontrollably, had some of the worst chills I've ever had," Chapman said. Colin Mayfield, an anchor at sister station WLWT, who is a participant in a trial study, had a similar reaction."When I went to sleep, I woke up with like chills, a headache in the middle of the night," Mayfield said.Mayfield said he was warned about the side effects. "For me, it was more the achiness and kind of like the flu-like symptoms, just like you'd get I guess with the flu vaccine," Mayfield said. Doctors said those reactions, most often experienced by younger people, are signs of a strong immune system. "Your body is preparing itself to create the chemicals that are needed to fight off a possible infection," said Internal Vice President of Medical Affairs at the Jewish Hospital-Mercy Health Dr. Imran Naqvi."You're having a bit of a more robust immune response, and because of that, you're having these chemicals that released that are called cytokines and those are the things that their job is to try to kill off the virus, but the side effect is that they make you feel kind of crummy during that day," said Dr. Robert Frenck, a professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital.Frenck has been involved in study trials for AstraZeneca and Pfizer. He said the symptoms can vary depending on which vaccine you get.He urges people not to shop around for vaccines, instead, take whichever one is available to them at the time.From these doctors to study participants, each agreed, the short-term side effects pale in comparison to the alternative."I think that everyone can handle it. It's obviously better than getting this virus, this disease that's killed more than 500,000 people in this country," Mayfield said."The side effects, I would take that any day over being on a ventilator,” Chapman said.Doctors said it's OK to take Tylenol or ibuprofen after the second dose to ease some of the aches, but not before you get it.If someone takes the medicine before the vaccine, that could decrease their immune response.
As a health care worker in the infectious disease center at the University of Cincinnati, Jaasiel Chapman was part of Moderna's vaccine trial in December.
"We work firsthand, face to face with COVID every day," Chapman said.
Other than a sore arm, Chapman said the first shot was a breeze. A month later, the second shot was a different story.
"In the middle of the night, I woke up extremely cold. I was shaking uncontrollably, had some of the worst chills I've ever had," Chapman said.
Colin Mayfield, an anchor at sister station WLWT, who is a participant in a trial study, had a similar reaction.
"When I went to sleep, I woke up with like chills, a headache in the middle of the night," Mayfield said.
Mayfield said he was warned about the side effects.
"For me, it was more the achiness and kind of like the flu-like symptoms, just like you'd get I guess with the flu vaccine," Mayfield said.
Doctors said those reactions, most often experienced by younger people, are signs of a strong immune system.
"Your body is preparing itself to create the chemicals that are needed to fight off a possible infection," said Internal Vice President of Medical Affairs at the Jewish Hospital-Mercy Health Dr. Imran Naqvi.
"You're having a bit of a more robust immune response, and because of that, you're having these chemicals that released that are called cytokines and those are the things that their job is to try to kill off the virus, but the side effect is that they make you feel kind of crummy during that day," said Dr. Robert Frenck, a professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital.
Frenck has been involved in study trials for AstraZeneca and Pfizer. He said the symptoms can vary depending on which vaccine you get.
He urges people not to shop around for vaccines, instead, take whichever one is available to them at the time.
From these doctors to study participants, each agreed, the short-term side effects pale in comparison to the alternative.
"I think that everyone can handle it. It's obviously better than getting this virus, this disease that's killed more than 500,000 people in this country," Mayfield said.
"The side effects, I would take that any day over being on a ventilator,” Chapman said.
Doctors said it's OK to take Tylenol or ibuprofen after the second dose to ease some of the aches, but not before you get it.
If someone takes the medicine before the vaccine, that could decrease their immune response.
