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McKinsey Jordan/Stocksy In the effort to protect the population against COVID-19 infection, more than one million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are being given every day in the United States, and that number continues to climb as production and distribution improve. That means, according to Bloomberg, that more Americans have received their first dose of the vaccine than have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began in early 2020. A sample of approximately 2 million people out of the first 22 million Americans to get one of the two COVID-19 vaccines found that about 7 out 10 people reported pain as a result of the vaccine, and 30 percent of people experienced headache as a side effect. ....
Medically Reviewed iStock (2) An estimated 39 million Americans have migraine, with symptoms that can range from mild to severe, according to the Migraine Research Foundation. Migraine attacks previously were thought to be a result of abnormal dilation of blood vessels in the brain, but scientists now believe that the cause may be more complex and involve inherited differences in brain chemistry. Women are much more likely than men to have migraine, as are people with a family history of migraine, according to the Migraine Research Foundation. But not all migraine attacks are alike, and not everyone has the same migraine symptoms, says neurologist Alexander Mauskop, MD, a founder and director of the New York Headache Center in Manhattan and White Plains, New York. ....