Safety and Side effects of Covid-19 Vaccines

How much Covid-19 vaccines are safe? Questions about its side effects are still prevailing.

Noreen Fatima
3 min readJul 15, 2021

Many people around the world are getting the covid-19 vaccine but questions about the safety and side effects of it are still prevailing. Authorities prove that the vaccine is safe and effective. It prevents you from getting severe side effects like disease or die due to Covid-19. You can get light effects, but it is a symbol that your body is producing immunity against Covid -19.

You will get answer to these questions in this article,

  1. Is the Covid-19 vaccine safe and effective?
  2. Is the Covid-19 vaccine having side effects?
  3. What about the allergic reaction of Covid-19 vaccines?
  4. What about blood clotting due to the vaccine?
  5. What are the basic ingredients of Covid-19 vaccines?
  6. Is the Covid-19 vaccine containing Alcohol?

Safety and effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines

The Covid-19 vaccines are designed in such a way that it protects you from being diseased. It boosts your immune system and strengthens you against the virus if it get entered the body.

It instructs the body to fight the virus in certain ways; It increases your body's temperature to kill the virus, it increases the flow of blood to circulate the immune cells quickly in the body. Little weakness and headache are a sign that your body is responding against the virus. If it shows no effect, it does not mean that vaccine is not working rather everybody has a different way to respond.

Side effects of Covid-19 vaccines

Mild side effects of the Covid-19 vaccine are following.

  1. feelings of being tired.
  2. having headache
  3. having achy
  4. sore arm or pain at the injection site
  5. sickness
  6. having high temperature or shivering for 1 to 2 days.

Allergic reactions due to covid-19 vaccine

  1. Some people who may have allergies including penicillin or food allergies are vaccinated against covid-19.
  2. It is suggested to tell to healthcare staff or doctor about yourself if you ever had an allergic reaction. They will ask about its details.
  3. There are very few cases have founded of being seriously infected with the Covid-19 vaccine.
  4. Allergic reaction is usually shown in minutes so, the staff is trained to handle the patients immediately.
  5. It is also suggested that if the first dose shows some serious reaction, then do not take the same vaccine again (second dose).
  6. The covid-19 vaccine prevents you to get seriously ill.

Blood clotting due to Covid-19 vaccine

  1. There are extremely rare cases of blood clotting that have been found yet. Only a few cases of it have been seen in the people who have had the vaccine Oxford/AstraZeneca. Researches for the safety and effectiveness of this vaccine are still going on to find out why they had this reaction.
  2. In people aged 40 or more, along with some other health conditions, the vaccine Oxford/AstraZeneca benefits and outweighs any risk of clotting.
  3. The people having age less than 40 and if they do not have any health issues, they are required to have other vaccines like Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna instead of AstraZeneca. Because these vaccines are found safe and effective yet.

Is the Covid-19 vaccine containing Alcohol?

The news has spread among the masses that Vaccines contain alcohol. Yes, it is true, that some vaccines like vaccines used to cure nasal flu in children and Shingle’s vaccines contain alcohol. But the vaccines for Covid-19 do not contain alcohol. According to British Islamic Medical associates Covid-19 vaccines like Oxford/AstraZeneca, Moderna and PfizerNTech contain probably negligible amounts of it.

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