An expert told women on Friday that women and men under the age of 40 are experiencing side effects from COVID-19 vaccines.
“Women and younger people have more local reactions – a sore arm, a day of not feeling so well, or aches and pains,” according to Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University.
“People wonder if it’s because women have more estrogen, but it has yet to be studied,” he said.
“The short answer is that there must be reasons for it, but we do not know what it is,” Schaffner added.
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The side effects of COVID-19 vaccines range from nausea and flu-like symptoms to nothing – but your reaction says nothing about how you would have fared against the virus, experts said.
“I do not think there is a link between your response to the vaccine and what would have happened to you if you had been infected with the virus,” Schaffner said in an interview with the WBSMY branch.
Despite the severity of the post-vaccination symptoms – which this week include nausea and dizziness for 11 people at a shuttered location in Colorado Johnson & Johnson, the shots are equally effective for everyone, experts said.
“People will say, ‘Well, if I do not respond, does that mean the vaccine did not work?’ and the answer is, ‘No,’ said Dr William Hopkins, a vaccine expert at Johns Hopkins University.
He added, “[There are] no implications for protective efficacy … No implications for how your body would react if you became infected with the actual SARS-CoV-2. “
On Wednesday, about a dozen people at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City reportedly had adverse reactions to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which prompted officials to close the premises.
The Department of Public Health and the Environment in Colorado later stressed that the side effects associated with the single-dose survey “match what can be expected.”
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As of Friday, more than 112 million people have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine in the United States.
This story first appears in The New York Post.