Are you up for “intense” feelings of chills — shaking so hard you crack your teeth — high fever, body aches, bad headaches and exhaustion, all for the sake of a coronavirus vaccine? These are side effects that some of Moderna’s and Pfizer’s SARS-CoV-2 vaccine trial participants experienced.
The vaccine makers also report that some participants get “mild” COVID-19 symptoms, too. Yet, despite how ill it made them feel, all five participants who interviewed with a reporter — including the one who cracked his teeth — said “they think it was worth it to protect themselves against the coronavirus.”
One person who is part of Moderna’s trial said he had a low-grade fever and felt “under the weather” for several days after his first shot. Eight hours after his second shot he was “bed-bound with a fever of over 101, shakes, chills, a pounding headache and shortness of breath. He said the pain in his arm, where he received the shot, felt like a ‘goose egg on my shoulder.’ He hardly slept that night, recording that his temperature was higher than 100 degrees for five hours.”
Two others reported similar side effects, and a third warned that after you would need to take a day off after the second shot. CNBC also noted that “as companies progressed through clinical trials, several vaccine makers abandoned their highest doses following reports of more severe reactions.”
SOURCE: CNBC October 1, 2020