No side effects following covid-19 vaccination doesn’t mean it’s not working

Lack of side effects following covid-19 vaccination doesn’t mean it’s not working

 A study conducted by researchers from Maryland in the United States has found no connection between the symptoms that develop following vaccination against coronavirus disease and the antibody responses that are generated against the virus.

However, Edward Mitre and colleagues say the existing study findings suggest that individuals who do not develop symptoms can be assured that this does not mean the vaccine “did not work.”

The study also suggests that the symptoms vary from a person to another depending on age, weight, gender. They were more common among women. These symptoms appear more often after the second dose.

“Although this statement is fundamentally true because vaccines work by inducing inflammatory responses, it also implies incorrectly that a lack of symptoms post-vaccination may indicate an absence of appropriate antiviral antibody responses,” said the researchers.

Individuals with different reactions toward the vaccine with either high or low symptom scores had a similar amount of antibodies.

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