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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Acetaminophen or ibuprofen before getting your booster, cautions Dr. Susan McLellan, a professor in the infectious diseases division and medical director of the Biocontainment Treatment Unit at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. These may lessen the effectiveness of the boosters. However, it is OK to take these medications after getting your vaccine as detailed below.Many people will have no side effects from a COVID booster. For those who do, the CDC says that the most common effects are: Fatigue. Fever. Headache. Soreness in your arm.Most side effects people have had are similar to any side effects they felt after getting their primary COVID-19 vaccines.You can cope with booster side effects by: Applying a cool washcloth on your arm where you received the injection. Asking your health care provider if it’s OK to use over-the-counter pain relievers like aspirin, ibuprofen and acetaminophen. Drinking more fluids. Getting extra rest.How Effective Are COVID-19 Boosters?COVID-19 vaccines and boosters are effective in preventing the virus, symptomatic infection and lowering the chance of having a severe case of the infection. A severe case means hospitalization or death.A study focused on more than 78,000 urgent care and emergency department visits as well as 15,500 hospitalizations found those who contracted COVID-19 but received boosters were 56% less likely to seek emergency room or urgent care and 57% less likely to have to be hospitalized, according to a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report article from December 2022.For those who had received their vaccines and boosters but had their most recent dose 11 months ago or longer, they were 50% less likely to seek emergency room and urgent care.So, there still may be a risk of contracting COVID-19 even after getting the primary vaccines and boosters, but your chances are lower. If you do get the virus, your chances of developing a serious infection are lower compared to if you were unvaccinated.Booster Shot Hesitancy and ConfusionAs of February 2023, 15.8% of the U.S. population had received at least one COVID booster dose, according to the CDC. That compares with 69.2% of the U.S. population that completed the primary vaccine series. There are a few reasons why not as many people have received their boosters.“There’s understandable confusion about new vaccines, new viral variant strains and what to do if someone has already had COVID at some point in addition to previous vaccination,” DeHart says.“Warranted or not, many people no longer feel a sense of emergency,” says Jeffrey Townsend, the Elihu Professor of Biostatistics and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and co-leader of the Genomics, Genetics, & Epigenetics Research Program at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Townsend and colleagues have published several studies on COVID vaccines.Misinformation also
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