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Here's How It Really Feels After Getting The COVID-19 Vaccine
While Australia has just approved the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for use, people in other countries such as the US and UK have already started receiving the vaccine.
Here are some of their experiences.
It took a three-hour road trip, an overnight hotel stay and an untold number of sleepless nights, but she did it: On January 5, Terri Lynn received her first dose of the Moderna vaccine in northern Florida.
“I was just floating after I got it,” the 65-year-old Naples resident told HuffPost.
“I feel empowered that I did something,” she continued. “I didn’t realise it until afterwards, but I’m just so proud.”
Like many of her friends and family, Lynn was eager for the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, and to be eligible for the shot in her arm. After about nine months and more than 300,000 deaths in the US, the first batches were finally released in January — light at the end of a monthslong tunnel. All of the country’s 50 states have designed their own distribution plans, some of which have gone more smoothly than others.
For Lynn, information about the vaccine had been “spotty,” but after setting up multiple Google alerts and all but living online, she learned that Publix grocery stores were going to be offering the vaccine in three Florida counties — all of which were more than a three-hour drive from her Naples home.
“I couldn’t believe my eyes, I was trembling,” she said of the moment, sometime around 4 a.m., she saw she could sign up for a vaccine dose. After successfully booking her own appointment online, she rushed to book another for her husband, Mark.
“I didn’t realise how frantic I was going to be about it. It was like winning the lottery — even better,” she said.
What the COVID-19 vaccine physically feels like
So far, most people who’ve received the vaccine report mild to moderate side effects. Injection-site pain, headaches and fever are some of the most common symptoms, which experts say are typical for any type of...
