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Sore arm, fatigue, muscle pain and fever are some of the side effects being reported in those receiving COVID-19 vaccines, and experts say that's mostly a good thing. Vaccines are supposed to trigger an immune response, they say. That's how you know they're working. "If you have a vaccine that doesn't produce a reaction in people, the resulting immune response is weaker," said Earl Brown, a microbiologist with the University of Ottawa. Brown says vaccines work by stimulating our immune cells to grow and communicate with each other, giving directions on where to set up for an impending attack by the virus. That results in inflammation, with some of those cells traveling to lymph nodes and causing swelling. The mRNA vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna give immune cells instructions to make the COVID spike protein and produce antibodies. Viral vector vaccines like Oxford-AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson, meanwhile, force an immune response from th
Sore arm, fatigue, muscle pain and fever are some of the side effects being reported in those receiving COVID-19 vaccines, and experts say that s mostly a good thing.
Fatigue, soreness, fever: experts say some side effects mean vaccines are working
A dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is given to a recipient at a vaccination site in Vancouver Thursday, March 11, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward March 15, 2021 - 1:00 AM
Sore arm, fatigue, muscle pain and fever are some of the side effects being reported in those receiving COVID-19 vaccines, and experts say that s mostly a good thing.
Vaccines are supposed to trigger an immune response, they say. That s how you know they re working. If you have a vaccine that doesn t produce a reaction in people, the resulting immune response is weaker, said Earl Brown, a microbiologist with the University of Ottawa.
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