{"id":1048,"date":"2021-01-20T09:13:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T14:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2021-01-20T09:13:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T14:13:08","slug":"are-side-effects-more-common-after-2nd-vaccine-dose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1048","title":{"rendered":"Are side effects more common after 2nd vaccine dose?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Happy Inauguration Day!<\/em><br><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Question:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0My coworkers were telling me that the 2nd shot is more likely than the 1st shot to cause side effects (like fever, muscle soreness).\u00a0 Is that a rumor or is it true?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Answer:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0It&#8217;s not a rumor; it&#8217;s true!\u00a0 Data <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/emergency-preparedness-and-response\/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19\/pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine\">from Pfizer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/emergency-preparedness-and-response\/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19\/moderna-covid-19-vaccine\">Moderna<\/a> clinical trials show that side effects are more common after the 2nd dose.\u00a0 Still, more common side effects&#8211; like headache, fever, chills, tiredness, pain at injection site, muscle pain, and joint pain&#8211; should last no more than several days (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jhsph.edu\/covid-19\/articles\/side-effects-and-covid-19-vaccines-what-to-expect.html\">usually 24-48 hours<\/a>).\u00a0 For more on common side effects, see <a href=\"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=950\">Q&amp;A of 12\/16<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Inauguration Day!Question:\u00a0My coworkers were telling me that the 2nd shot is more likely than the 1st shot to cause side effects (like fever, muscle soreness).\u00a0 Is that a rumor or is it true? Answer:\u00a0It&#8217;s not a rumor; it&#8217;s true!\u00a0 Data from Pfizer and Moderna clinical trials show that side effects are more common after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[64],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vaccines","tag-side-effects","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pexels-photo-6074933.jpeg?fit=1880%2C1253&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}