COVID Vaccine Side Effects: Here’s What The CDC Says You Can Expect
02/19/21 AT 2:12 PM
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a new report that details the most common side effects that have been reported by individuals that have received the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
The data from the report comes from the agency’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) – a national vaccine safety surveillance program. Here, information was analyzed for 13.7 million doses of the COVID vaccines that took place from Dec. 14 to Jan. 13.
From the data obtained by the VAERS, the CDC was able to determine that the most common side effects that vaccine recipients experienced were headache, fatigue, dizziness, chills, and nausea. People also reported instances of aches, fever, joint pain, and pain at the injection site, the CDC said.