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- Have there been any studies trying to correlate the vaccine efficacy level with the severity of the side effects experienced with each vaccination?
(Sorry if this has already been addressed in one of the other COVID-19 threads. If it has, I can delete my question or merge it into the other thread. Thanks.)
I work part-time in EMS, so I was in tier 1A for public vaccinations for COVID-19 here in Northern California. I got my first Moderna shot a few days ago, and aside from some deltoid pain, I have not experienced any other side effects. I'm active on a Medic forum (EMTLife.com), and there is a long thread there for Medics to share their experiences with each of the doses of the vaccines (many of the full-time Medics are now past their 2nd dose). The side effects vary all over the map, seemingly independent of the person's background, medical history, and level of fitness.
So since I have experienced no side effects at all, I started wondering if that might be an indicator of how my body was responding to the first vaccination shot. Does it mean that my body is ignoring it, and I'll be in the 40% of folks who get no benifit from the first vaccine? Or is it a good indicator that my body handles infection challenges well (which is my history), and is building up the antibodies without bothering to tell me about it?
It would seem that the vaccine trials would have tracked side effects from each of the immunization shots, as well as antibody levels and whether the subjects were in the 90% that were eventually protected, or in the unlucky 10% who still lost the infection battle and developed full-blown COVID-19. Are any such study correlations published? I would be very interested to see what they have found. Thanks.
I work part-time in EMS, so I was in tier 1A for public vaccinations for COVID-19 here in Northern California. I got my first Moderna shot a few days ago, and aside from some deltoid pain, I have not experienced any other side effects. I'm active on a Medic forum (EMTLife.com), and there is a long thread there for Medics to share their experiences with each of the doses of the vaccines (many of the full-time Medics are now past their 2nd dose). The side effects vary all over the map, seemingly independent of the person's background, medical history, and level of fitness.
So since I have experienced no side effects at all, I started wondering if that might be an indicator of how my body was responding to the first vaccination shot. Does it mean that my body is ignoring it, and I'll be in the 40% of folks who get no benifit from the first vaccine? Or is it a good indicator that my body handles infection challenges well (which is my history), and is building up the antibodies without bothering to tell me about it?
It would seem that the vaccine trials would have tracked side effects from each of the immunization shots, as well as antibody levels and whether the subjects were in the 90% that were eventually protected, or in the unlucky 10% who still lost the infection battle and developed full-blown COVID-19. Are any such study correlations published? I would be very interested to see what they have found. Thanks.
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