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With fear over the COVID-19 delta variant rising, there are renewed concerns over sending kids back to classrooms this fall.
Nathan, 17, will start his senior year at Washington Technology Magnet School in St. Paul in a matter of weeks. He spent the entire last school year learning virtually and said he doesn t want to do that again. It was harder than usual because I wasn t used to it, he said.
That s why he s getting his COVID-19 vaccine. It was good to get vaccinated just in case, so I don t catch it, but it just felt pretty normal, Nathan added.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the percentages reporting various side effects in the first seven days after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine rose from the first shot to the second shot.
Reports of pain rose from 67.7% to 74.8%; fatigue from 28.6% to 50%; headache from 25.6% to 41.9%; chills from 7% to 26.7%; fever from 7.4% to 25.2%; joint pain from 7.1% to 21.2%; and nausea from 7% to 13.9%.
So, why do some vaccine recipients experience a strong reaction to the second shot, while others undergo mild or no side effects at all?
The first shot primes the immune system, teaching it to recognize the invader, in this case the Spike protein on the new coronavirus. The Spike protein is what allows the virus to attach and penetrate human cells.