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No symptoms after COVID-19 vaccine? Itâs okay, the vaccine is still working
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In this photo from April 14, a pharmacist fills a syringe from a vial of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in Antwerp, Belgium. [ VIRGINIA MAYO | AP ]
By Arthur Allen, Kaiser Health News
Published 6 hours ago
Updated 6 hours ago
If you think vaccination is an ordeal now, consider the 18th-century version. After having pus from a smallpox boil scratched into your arm, you would be subject to three weeks of fever, sweats, chills, bleeding and purging with dangerous medicines, accompanied by hymns, prayers and hell-fire sermons by dour preachers.