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Well I had my first dose of the AstraZenica vaccine the other day and have got a date of 4 June for the second dose. In fact the whole family apart from the youngest have been done and our eldest has even had the second dose (she is in the National Health Service so got priority). We didn't have any side effects but we did take paracetomol before getting the vaccine and afterwards for a couple of days. some of my staff have been knocked a bit sideways but they refused to take paracetomol.

The hospitalisation and mortality rates in the UK are down significantly but the actual numbers of infections seems to be going down more slowly - I suspect that some people are being reverting to old normal too soon thinking that the old people are protected so they can ignore the virus - wrong, you can't, it can, and does, kill younger people as well.
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Also in the UK, I had mine last week, AZ also and I took paracetomol about an hour before the injection,
I felt a bit off about 9 hours after the injection, achy, temperature and feeling cold. Went to bed and felt better. Tired the next day but otherwise fine.
We've had quite a few people had work now that have had the vaccine and most had a few hours of feeling slightly ill but then fine.

From my experience, I won't plan to do much for 24 hours after the jab.
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I have my first about a fortnight ago and also felt tired and a little achey for a day or two, yes numbers are down but I am still being carefull as before and hope others do the same.
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The rule of thumb for side effects (based on the roughly 20 people getting each type that I know) seems to be -

Pfizer - you get a sore arm around the injection site. It can very sore (unable to sleep on it sore) for 1-2 days but no other symptoms.

AstraZenica - no sore arm (other than the effect of the needle going in) but flu like symptoms setting in 12-24hrs later and lasting for 1-3 days. Paracetamol mostly sorts out it out but a couple of people I know have had to take a few days off work.

Either way it's a lot better than getting Covid. At the moment I know of four people who have died from it, one still having problems with long Covid six months on, one who's got it at the moment and one person who had it and hardly noticed.

I had the AZ one six weeks ago but no sign of when I'll get the second shot.
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I also had the AZ jab 2 weeks ago but no date yet for the second. They said approx 12 weeks. Same for wife

Took paracetamol after jab but had hot sweats and mild headache in the evening. A few glasses of wine and all good. Arm a bit sore for 3 days

My daughter had the AZ one as well and were poorly for 3 days with flu type symptoms
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I had the first AstraZenica vaccine a few weeks ago and will get the second in april. I just had a light headache the next day and that was all. No problem.
I hope everybody will be vaccinated soon so we can start riding and traveling again to other countries (and have a pitstop in a nice restaurant or cafe while doing that) and goto events.
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same here

AZ first dose some weeks ago
I am part of risk group.
I was very happy to get it.

Same "side effects"

The day after
- Some fever
- Some Headache
- Higher blod pressure
- Higher hart rate

Second day
- Nothing

And those minor things were expected accoring to the document that I received. So nothing to worry about. And nothing compared to what the Covid19 does.

I think that it is natural. The body reacts to the vaccin.
And start to produce antibodies.

Already the first dose give quite a good protection.
Lower risk the get sick.
And if you get sick, much lower probability that it get serious

And they say that the second dose gives less reaction.
I will get mine after 12 weeks.
This with 3 weeks was a result of early testing.
Where they did not wait that long.
Now it is prowen that 12 weeks OK, or even better.
(And more people can get the first dose,if we wait longer for the second)

But as mentioned abowe.
My behaviour has not changed. Still very careful
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Wife and I got both Pfizers, no side effects. Nor sure what paracetomol is, no one mentioned to us.
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Wife and I got both Pfizers, no side effects. Nor sure what paracetomol is, no one mentioned to us.
Think Tylenol.
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Interesting that most of the people that have had the vaccine are from the UK - I know we are ahead of the EU as a proportion of the population inoculated but I thought that the US was not far behind the UK. Hopefully this is just due to the time differences.

There does appear to be some sections of society that are not taking up the vaccine and these seem to be concentrated amongst some ethnic groups that have been targeted in social media with loads of disinformation (also know as lies / bull shit) suggesting all sorts of bad things will happen to the recipients - I really wonder about some people that go out of their way to make stuff up that aims to lead to other people dying.

There are a few unhappy people that are kicking off in the UK at the idea of having to prove that you have been vaccinated before being allowed to go to events / the pub / the cinema etc and the incorporation of the vaccination into a “passport” type document.
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There's talk about disliking a "vaccine card" here in the States, of course. But I have to point out that the Yellow Card that one needs in order to prove vaccination for diseases like Yellow Fever and other similar diseases has been around forever. I think a lot of folks who don't travel do not know about the Yellow Card. I do have a Yellow Card, and now a card of record for the Moderna vaccine.

We need this vaccine in the States, because of the resistance and false information that flows. Some people think in terms of only me, vs we as a society. We have been warned here about the likelihood of a spike, because of vaccine resistance, and despite vaccinations completed. My attitude is if you have the opportunity to get a vaccine and decide not, then you made the choice and have to accept the consequences if you do eventually get covid. I remember pilio and smallpox vaccination along with TB testing programs from the 1950's, as a good thing. This is the first severe and global public health issue in 70 years, so memory is missing for most.
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AZ one, two weeks ago, got it in the first phase of the roll-out (ambulance EMT).
No paracetamol, slight headache the next day.
Bring it on, let's see an end to this damned thing.
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Pfizer for me here in Colorado- 2 doses and 2 weeks of settling- I'm happy.

My 96 year old mother- Pfizer, 2 doses. Her senior living apartment building is about 95% vaccinated and they have finally opened their doors to guests again. In fact, my wife and I were there, in her apartment tonight, eating dinner. First time in 12 months.

All my riding buddies have been vaccinated now too, but we're all greybeards, moving toward whitebeards.

My daughter, 32, and her boyfriend got their first jabs of Moderna yesterday.

US acceptance of vaccines has been pretty good in older populations, not as accepted in minority populations - but that is improving.

The ones who just won't get the vaccine are the dyed in the wool followers of our past president, who turned it into a political issue. I don't hold out a lot of hope for that group. Maybe they'll come around as they see we not dying, nor are we being controlled by Bill Gates (who in one version of the story was using the vaccine to implant chips in all of us. ?????)

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Apparently my parents (80 and 74) finally got their first shot today. I believe it was Pfizer.

No shot in sight yet for anyone under 70 here in BC. The gov't is saying maybe I'll get a first shot by July. The Canadian government really seems to have fumbled the ball on this one...
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There does appear to be some sections of society that are not taking up the vaccine and these seem to be concentrated amongst some ethnic groups that have been targeted in social media with loads of disinformation (also know as lies / bull shit) suggesting all sorts of bad things will happen to the recipients - I really wonder about some people that go out of their way to make stuff up that aims to lead to other people dying.

There are a few unhappy people that are kicking off in the UK at the idea of having to prove that you have been vaccinated before being allowed to go to events / the pub / the cinema etc and the incorporation of the vaccination into a “passport” type document.

I don't suppose too many of us have enough knowledge of what virus's are, how vacines work, what precautions are essential / which are worthless etc to be able to cut through the bullsh*t on our own. So we have to choose who to believe, and often there's just enough 'pseudotruth' in some of the stories to cause you to doubt the official line, especially if you're suspicious of government and you're being told it by someone you trust.

Bill Gates microchips for example. No, there's no microchips being implanted, and no, the vaccine isn't going to change your DNA and turn you into a zombie (or whatever it's supposed to do) but two of the vaccines do inject RNA (DNA, RNA, potato, potaato) which goes into some of your cells and highjacks them to produce foreign proteins. If your political senses are more finely tuned than your virology ones that doesn't need much of a twist to become the message 'the government wants you to inject stuff into your body that'll take it over'. As nobody knows what proteins or RNA are microchips become a stand-in.

If you think that's patronisingly simplistic I know a health professional - a multi decade nurse - working in a large hospital who has refused to be vaccinated because 'it'll make me infertile'. She's in her 60's! Despite working with the stuff all day long her personal beliefs, sourced from her community, have overridden her professional knowledge. If she's taken in by it all what hope do many of the rest of us have.

Part of the problem with 'social passports' is that those most likely to need them will be the last to get them. If there's an unfulfilled need then 'alternative' sources will fill the void. Introducing them on a Monday to have the market flooded with fake ones by Friday isn't going to do much for disease control measures. My guess is a combination of the elections in May (don't upset the electorate just before they have to vote you back in) and how to produce something that won't be counterfeited (for a while anyway) is what's being kicked around in smoke filled rooms at present.
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