People across the country are reporting a new side effect of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, calling it ‘Modern Arm’.
What is happening?
According to KDKA (according to Boston.com), doctors and medical officers recently said they saw patients coming through with a strange reaction on their arm.
One woman described the reaction as if someone had torn a bandage off your arm.
- “It was a large rectangle, 2 1/2 to 3 inches long, maybe 1 1/2 to 2 inches wide,” patient Genese Hendrickson told KDKA. ‘It left the imprint where it would be bubbly and red. It itches. ”
Dr James DeAngelo, who works at Allergy and Clinical Immunology Associates, told KDKA this is a normal reaction to the vaccination.
- “It’s a kind of immune response,” he said. “It’s technically not an allergy. It is a hypersensitivity. We just do not know the mechanism yet. ”
That said, some men have reported getting their splotch oval, hard and hot. But it turns out that the reaction dies within a week.
Wait, is not this ‘COVID arm’?
This is not entirely new. I wrote in February about this reaction – which was called ‘COVID arm’. At the time, people reported seeing red lesions on their arms after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine from Moderna, according to Health.com. The rash would develop near the injection site of the arm.
- “I’ve had a lot of people call about the place of the injection, and sometimes it also extends quite far up and down the arm,” said Dr. John Swartzberg, an infectious disease expert at the University of California, Berkeley School. public health, told KOMO News.
Experts said the reaction was called “delayed cutaneous hypersensitivity” according to Health.com. The result is a sign of a delayed reaction to the injection.
But dr. George Morris told CBS Minnesota it’s nothing to worry about.
- “We have seen such reactions with other vaccines,” he said. ‘We know that many people have a local reaction in their arm when you get a flu vaccine. Tetanus vaccines. Shingles vaccines. ”