The U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) found that about one in three who received the COVID vaccine reported some kind of side effect, the BBC reported… but this was barely reported in the western media and was in and out of the news.
The most common was soreness around the site of the Pfizer-BioNTech injection. There were no serious problems, the report said. The participants sent their feedback in via an app, and the data was crunched by King’s College London.
About 37 percent said they felt some local after-effect, like pain or swelling, and 14 percent had “at least one whole-body (systemic) after-effect—like a fever or chills.” About 22 percent experienced a similar reaction after the second shot.
Dr. Anna Goodman, who has been running trials of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, warned that those who are vaccinated still need to practice social distancing because protection is not 100 percent.
