Why Some People Feel COVID Vaccine Side Effects And Others Don’t
“We do see that, in general with vaccines, women tend to be more likely to have a reaction."
Patricia Treble, Maclean's
Updated
April 30, 2021
Justin Trudeau receives a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine in an Ottawa pharmacy on Friday, April 23, 2021. (Photo: Adrian Wyld/CP/Bloomberg.)
On April 23, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie, got their AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine shots at a pharmacy in Ottawa. Four days later, the PM reported, “We’re feeling great.”
But some people are feeling downright rotten after getting a shot. My colleague Shannon Proudfoot spoke for many when she noted, “Just to offer encouragement to anyone else experiencing the AstraZeneca hangover, I felt like absolute garbage—fever, chills, headache, muscle aches—until about 27 hours after my shot, then things improved rapidly. So it’s brutal but brief, courage!”