Your guide to side effects: What you can expect after a Covid-19 jab
11 May 2021
Medical workers wait for passengers inside a South Africa Health Department mobile coronavirus testing unit at O.R Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa. Photographer: Guillem Sartorio/Bloomberg via Getty Images
In less than a week, on 17 May, the health department says South Africa will start to vaccinate people aged 60 years and older, as well as 700 000 healthcare workers not covered by the country’s Covid-19 vaccine implementation study, Sisonke.
Two jabs will be used: Pfizer’s vaccine in metros and Johnson and Johnson’s (J&J) shot in rural districts.
But how will the Pfizer and J&J shots affect you - can you, for instance, expect any side-effects?
The Sisonke trial, which uses the J&J jab, was, for example, recently paused for two weeks to investigate reports about rare blood clots linked to the vaccine.
So how do you know if a side-effect is something to be concerned about and how often are such symptoms likely to occur?
We break it down.
1. What is a side-effect?
To answer that, let’s take a quick refresher on how vaccines work. (A great place to start is to watch the first session of the Vaccine Science 101 course Bhekisisa and the Centre for Evidence-based Healthcare hosted in March.)
‘I would like to improve the profile of nurses in Spain’
05 May, 2021
Leticia Bernués Caudillo, a nurse at Hospital 12 de Octubre in Madrid and coordinator of Nursing Now Madrid, outlines her role and her ambitions for the future
How would you describe your role to someone you’ve just met?
“As an anaesthesia nurse, my job is to take care of patients before, during and after surgeries and to collaborate with the anaesthetist. As one of the coordinators of the local group Nursing Now Madrid, I work to achieve the objectives of the Nursing Now campaign, which are raising the profile and status of nurses to increase our contribution to global health. During the pandemic I have also been working in a Covid-19 intensive care unit due to the lack of nurses with experience in ICU.”
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