Covid vaccine side-effects
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
I was floored for three days with side-effects after having my first Covid jab and many of you have been in touch about your side-effects too. Why do some of us feel awful after the vaccine, while others barely notice anything? What does this say about our immune systems and how protected we will be against covid? We put your questions to Eleanor Riley, a professor of immunology and infectious disease at Edinburgh University.
Our resident GP Margaret McCartney has been taking a look at the reports of blood clots after vaccination, and we speak to Victoria Male, a lecturer in reproductive immunology at Imperial College London, about the rules for vaccination in pregnant women.
PRESENTER: James Gallagher PRODUCERS: Beth Eastwood & Geraldine Fitzgerald
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| 0:38.1 | Hello everyone and welcome to Inside Health with me, James Galaher. |
| 0:41.7 | This week we're going to talk vaccine side effects and my vaccine side effects, |
| 0:46.5 | because yes, party poppers out, I've had my first dose. |
| 0:50.0 | But I'll be straight with you. |
| 0:51.7 | I was flawed for three days. |
| 0:56.2 | Migraine and vomiting were the worst bits, but there were also chills, muscle ache and fatigue too. It was a pretty unpleasant |
| 1:02.8 | couple of days, but I'll be honest as well, I'd do it all again. Much rather have some |
| 1:07.6 | temporary side effects than live with more lockdown or actually get COVID itself. |
| 1:12.7 | But while I was lying there in my bed, it did get me thinking, well, why do some people get more |
| 1:18.5 | side effects than others? Does it actually mean anything? Like, do I have better immunity? |
| 1:23.9 | There's also questions, of course, in the news around blood clots and the vaccination campaign in Europe. |
| 1:29.2 | So we've invited Eleanor Riley, a professor of immunology and infectious disease at Edinburgh University. |
| 1:35.0 | Eleanor, welcome to Inside Health. |
| 1:36.4 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:37.5 | So have you had any vaccine side effects? Have you been immunised? |
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