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“They are going to know they had a vaccine. They are probably not going to feel wonderful. But they’ve got to come back for that second dose.” Only 10% to 15% of volunteers reporting side effects that were “significantly noticeable.”
The side effects can last up to a day and a half, said Dr. Moncef Slaoui, who is leading the Trump administration’s Covid-19 vaccine program Operation Warp Speed. The people who’ve suffered from side effects have reported redness and pain at the injection site as well as fever, chills, muscle aches and headaches, he said, adding most people have no noticeable side effects.
“I always make sure we say that [while] we know the short term and I’m going to call it midterm effects of the vaccine is now well understood, the very long-term safety is not yet understood by definition.”
While the long-term side effects are not well understood yet, vaccine expert Dr. Moncef Slaoui said it is important to get a vaccine deployed as soon as possible as the pandemic is “killing 2,000 or more than 2,000 people a day.”
“These vaccines with 95% efficacy are an insurance against that,” he said, adding the vaccines have already been tested in more than 50,000 people.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/01/tru...percent-to-15percent-of-recipients.html#close