COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Volunteers Experience Side Effects Like Headache, Fever & Exhaustion
Five human trial participants of Moderna and Pfizer said they experienced exhaustion fever and headaches for a whole day after being injected. The participants of the coronavirus vaccine trials - three in Modernas study and two in Pfizers late-stage trials - said high fever body aches bad headaches and exhaustion are just some of the symptoms they experienced.
As the world waits with bated breath for an effective and safe COVID-19 vaccine, several pharmaceuticals like Moderna and Pfizer, are currently testing out vaccines on thousands of volunteers as part of double-blind phase three trials.
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After one such trial, five human trial participants of Moderna and Pfizer, said they experienced exhaustion, fever and headaches for a whole day after being injected.
The participants of the coronavirus vaccine trials - three in Moderna's study and two in Pfizer's late-stage trials - said high fever, body aches, bad headaches and exhaustion are just some of the symptoms they experienced after receiving shots.
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According to CNBC, a Moderna vaccine trial participant suffered night chills with a fever, after the booster shot.
Another Pfizer vaccine candidate volunteer said that he woke up with chills that were so bad that he cracked a tooth.
After about 12 hours, he felt normal. Two other participants in the Moderna also experienced similar symptoms after receiving the coronavirus vaccine doses.
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Another participant, in her 50s, in Moderna study of the coronavirus vaccine trial, said she didn't experience a fever but suffered a bad migraine. She said while the first coronavirus vaccine candidate dose was "no big deal", the second one will definitely put people down for a day.
¡°If this proves to work, people are going to have to toughen up,¡± she said. ¡°The first dose is no big deal. And then the second dose will definitely put you down for the day for sure. ... You will need to take a day off after the second dose.¡±
Florian Krammer, a virologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, tweeted that the self-reported side effects were ¡°unpleasant but not dangerous¡± for Moderna¡¯s mRNA-based vaccine candidate.
Experts now have the task of educating those who may see these side effects as a reason to not get the vaccine at all, as STAT reported in July.