COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to sharply downward statewide and nationally. How are our local hospitals holding up into the second week of February?
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The first two people scheduled to get the Pfizer vaccine here are African-American doctors who are anxious to demonstrate the safety of innoculation to a community that is skeptical. Others on the frontlines of pandemic treatment will come next according to Dr. Costi Sifri, a professor and director of hospital epidemiology.
“It’s not only going to be doctors and nurses but respiratory therapists and physical therapists, nutritionists, social workers, housekeepers,” he explains.
Side effects from the vaccine are generally mild.
“The most common side effect for this vaccine are going to be a sore arm – not dissimilar to what you would get if you take a flu vaccine, says Sifri. If you take a look at the clinical trials, side effects are things like fatigue, headache, muscle aches and sometimes some chills.”
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