Many mild or adverse side effects that people experience after taking the Covid vaccine are caused by “nocebo effect” – a negative version of the placebo effect – a new study has claimed.
A placebo effect occurs when a person’s health improves after taking treatment with no pharmacological therapeutic benefit, such as a sugar pill, or a syringe full of saline. Whereas under the nocebo effect, individuals experience unpleasant side effects after a similar treatment, the scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in the US said.
Booking a slot to get Covid vaccine may have become a lenient task for many, but a few still have to overcome complicated logistics challenges in the hopes of getting protection against the deadly virus.
One such incident has come to the fore in which a photo of an indigenous man from Brazil’s Amazon forest carrying his father on his back to a vaccine centre has gone viral.
The photo taken by a doctor shows 24-year-old Tawy holding Wahu, 67, after both were given a vaccine dose.