A new COVID vaccine is due out next month, but health experts and analysts say it is likely to be coolly received even as hospitalizations from "Eris", a variant of the Omicron form of the coronavirus, rise around the country.
  • enki@lemm.ee
    50·
    1 year ago

    Feeling sick for a day or two after the vaccine is a small price to pay to avoid long COVID. Some people never recover, see Physics Girl on YT.

    • Graphine@lemmy.world
      18·
      1 year ago

      Can confirm. Had COVID twice since 2020 and it absolutely fucking sucks. Never felt anything like it.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
      2·
      1 year ago

      I had it for three weeks and that was long enough, and for a couple of weeks after still I couldn’t enjoy coffee or chocolate or anything with floral flavors. Definitely sucked hard, I can’t imagine having it longer

      • ahal@lemmy.ca
        1·
        1 year ago

        Post viral syndromes are phenomena that have been well documented long before COVID. You can find any number of scientific papers on the matter if you only cared to look.

    • kobra@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t disagree at all, I should have elaborated in my original comment but I guess I was more yearning for better suited vaccines for people that get hit hard by them. Maybe we could take a smaller dose or different cocktail?

      • enki@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        Which one did you take? A lot of people I know who took Moderna got hit hard, but only one person I know who took the Pfizer did. My family all took Pfizer and didn’t have any symptoms besides the usual soreness at the injection site.