The CDC released the first comprehensive study of the side effects experienced by patients who received the new COVID vaccines in the United States this week. Although these trends were recorded during the initial approval tests, this was a comparatively small number of people. This study recorded the effects felt by almost 14 million people. Although none of the vaccines are producing serious medical problems and are still considered safe, many patients have reported some negative effects in the hours and days after the injection. But the most curious figure revealed in the study is that women seem to experience negative side effects much more often than men. (CBS San Francisco)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the results of a study that examined the first 13.7 million people to receive the vaccine and found that women experienced worse side effects than men.
Of the patients who reported side effects to the agency, such as fatigue, pain at the injection site, fever or chills, 79.1% were women, although women represented 61.2% of those vaccinated …
The CDC study does not identify exactly when women experience more intense side effects than men. But the general findings are consistent with research on other vaccines.
The full report of the study is available at the CDC here. The study was conducted between December 14, 2020 and January 13, 2021. Only the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have been studied, since the Johnson & Johnson vaccine had not yet released its emergency authorization tests at that time.
The good news is that 90.8% of the side effects experienced by patients were classified as “not serious”, while only 9.2% were described as serious. The two most common side effects were headaches and fatigue, while a slightly smaller percentage of patients reported feeling dizzy. 113 deaths after vaccination were recorded, with the vast majority of them occurring among residents of nursing homes. Vaccines were not considered responsible for the deaths in any case.
Returning to the gender difference, 61.2% of vaccines were administered to women, but female patients accounted for 78.7% of reports of adverse side effects. That seems statistically significant, doesn’t it? Since I am not a doctor, I could not even imagine what could be different between male and female patients that would cause one gender to have worse results than the other. But speaking strictly as a quarterback and layman, I found myself wondering if the number of patients experiencing side effects was really roughly equal in both sexes, but some of the men in the study were too stubborn to admit they weren’t. You are not feeling well. (My wife, who is also not a doctor, immediately rejected this suggestion, saying that men are by far the biggest “crybaby” when they get sick.)
Another interesting fact revealed in the study is that most reports of side effects were recorded after the second injection, appearing almost twice as often as the reports after the first injection. This fits with anecdotal evidence that I have heard online and from a series of reports published in the media. And according to medical authorities, this phenomenon was not only predicted, but in fact it is a positive sign, indicating that your immune system has triggered a response.
These common symptoms are usually signs that the vaccine has triggered a response from your immune system.
And that is what you must do.
“When you feel bad or have a fever, it is largely your body responding,” Dr. Debra Powell, head of infectious diseases at Tower Health, Pennsylvania, told Healthline. “It’s usually a very short-term thing and a lot better than taking COVID and being sick for 2 weeks or in the hospital.”
You can read the entire report yourself, but it looks like the news in general is still good. The serious side effects were minimal and usually involve other underlying medical conditions. Now we are going to take these numbers to the point where the government will be forced to cancel all masking mandates and the rest of that garbage. Personally, I am planning to burn all my masks at the stake for our family’s Fourth of July celebration.
