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Beth Drolet, chair of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, is motivated by the stories of...
Why post-vaccine rashes could be a 'good thing' Marlene Cimons, The Washington Post April 11, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Kaiser Doctor Allison Friedenberg (left) receivies a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shot from Nurse Scott Keech at Kaiser San Francisco hospital on December 7, 2020 in San Francisco, California.Douglas Zimmerman / SFGATE Tina Burke, 40, a nurse who works on the oncology floor at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), received her first coronavirus shot on Jan. 3. Six days later, she developed a rash on her injected arm but "thought nothing of it." The next morning, however, she wok...
Such skin reactions “are not severe or long-lasting, and show us that your body likely is developing a nice strong immune response to the vaccine,” one health expert says.
"Covid arm," a red, rashlike skin reaction that can occur at the injection site days after inoculation, has been well-publicized. But some patients also are developing delayed skin reactions on other areas of the body after receiving one of the messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, which include one made by Pfizer-BioNTech.