DECATUR â The Rev. Wayne Dunning visibly braced himself for a sharp stick when getting his COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, but it was already done.
âHe tricked me,â Dunning said, laughing, afterward. Brendan Spence, a pharmacist with Walgreens, had told him he was going to count to three and give the injection, but he actually did it while he was talking.
Spence told Dunning to take a seat for 15 minutes in case of a reaction, which is rare, Spence said. Some people might feel faint, which is often due to anxiety rather than the vaccine, and rarely, there is an allergic reaction. Dunning had none of that and said the injection site wasn t even painful.