Updated: 9:02 AM CDT May 20, 2021 KOCO Staff KOCO 5 is bringing your questions about the COVID-19 vaccine to local health experts all week long. Here are the questions we featured on Thursday.Liliana asked why some people have severe reactions and others don t.“The severe reactions are very, very rare, but each time we get a medication or vaccine, our body reacts to that and people s bodies react differently. They call it the Goldilocks phenomenon where when we have a reaction, we want it to be just arrived, not too little, so that it doesn t work very well or not too much. We re cause a severe reaction. And again, fortunately, there are very few severe reactions,” said Dr. Alice Mankin, Vice President of Mercy Primary Care Clinic. Melanie asked: What are the possible long term side effects of the vaccine? Cancer, infertility, sterilization, seizures, blood clots, death, etc. “Most of the side effects associated with the COVID-19 vaccine are short term
Tulsa Health Department cancels Wednesday COVID-19 vaccines
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
COVID-19
and last updated 2021-02-16 13:51:13-05
TULSA, Okla. â The Tulsa Health Department is canceling Wednesday s planned COVID-19 vaccine clinics due to weather.
Anyone with an appointment scheduled through the Oklahoma Vaccine Portal, along with everyone who received a first dose at Expo Square on January 27
th, has been rescheduled for Wednesday, March 3
rd at the Expo Square Pavilion.
At this time,
vaccine operations will continue as scheduled on Thursday, February 18
th for everyone who has an appointment made through the Oklahoma Vaccine Portal, along with everyone who received a first dose at Expo Square on January 28