Got Moderna 8 hours ago. Wife has a mild headache. I got nothing. Planned a low key weekend.

48 hours after 2nd injection just a slight (very slight) soreness at injection site. No rash or swelling.

I only notice it if I press on the injection site.

Sooners doing well. 7th most state in vaccinations per 100,000 at 14,500. 78% of available doses administered.

National at 12,450 and 70%

Bureau of prisons doing exceptionally well. They have administered 40,333 doses while receiving only 37,050. Lol

My wife and son both got shot #2 on Friday. Both had soreness in the shoulder. About 12 hours after getting his shot, my son had a fever that went on through the night. My wife complained of headaches and the day after getting the shot, she had a fever as well. Sunday... all clear. It'll be interesting to see what reaction my daughter has when she gets hers this Wednesday. She had the most "severe" reaction to the first dose with headaches and muscle aches after the first.

Well given all these reports and the fact that I tend to overdo everything I'm just going to stay in my little hermitage for awhile longer.

I wonder if the first shot, in addition to starting the process of building antibodies also causes a bit of sensitization to the second shot. Just curious.

That is exactly the dynamic that is happening. The second time around the body says, “wait, I’ve seen this before. . . an invader“ and mounts a reaction.

An ER doc friend of mine said he was hoping for a significant post second shot reaction. He said that way he knows his body has been exposed to the virus (or virus proteins) and is able to fight off a future exposure.

This seems logical.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/02/second-vaccine-side-effects/617892/

Side effects are a natural part of the vaccination process, as my colleague Sarah Zhang has written. Not everyone will experience them. But the two COVID-19 vaccines cleared for emergency use in the United States, made by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, already have reputations for raising the hackles of the immune system: In both companies’ clinical trials, at least a third of the volunteers ended up with symptoms such as headaches and fatigue; fevers like my husband’s were less common.

Dose No. 2 is more likely to pack a punch—in large part because the effects of the second shot build iteratively on the first. My husband, who’s a neurologist at Yale New Haven Hospital, is one of many who had a worse experience with his second shot than his first.

But much like any other learning process, in this one repetition is key. When hit with the second injection, the immune system recognizes the onslaught, and starts to take it even more seriously. The body’s encore act, uncomfortable though it might be, is evidence that the immune system is solidifying its defenses against the virus.

“By the second vaccine, it’s already amped up and ready to go,” Jasmine Marcelin, an infectious-disease physician at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, told me.

My daughter received the second dose (Moderna)yesterday. She had the worst reaction to the first shot but oddly the best experience with the second. 17 hours after the second dose and no issues to speak of. We'll see how my second dose goes on Monday.

This stinks...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/vaccine-had-used-used-fired-131136912.html

Yep. This is local and I believe he has a case for wrongful termination.

^^^ I sure hope he wins if he goes for it.

The funny part of the story is he looks like Babu Bhatt from Seinfeld!

Got my second dose today. Feels like someone knuckle punched me in the shoulder. Got the shot around 9 a.m. Should be interesting to see how the day progresses!

Not sure where you are but surprised it’s available to kids yet...even before yourself.

I got mine because my wife works at the hospital. Two of my kids got theirs because they work at the hospital too.

Ah....ok, the word “kids” is relative!

19 and 21 "kids"

About 26 hours after 2nd dose. No fever, No headache but a feeling like I'm "coming down with something" sort of achy in general. But overall not bad. Been out running the snow blowers, plowing, and shoveling snow this morning so how bad can it be?

Definitely a different experience than the first dose which was only soreness at the injection site but not terrible. I think I'll survive.

Just got my first dose this morning and came home and did my morning walk of 1.2 miles, for my open heart re-coop donchano.

Almost 48 hours after... and nothing... all gone.
Something kind of interesting to me. Yesterday I had some soreness in my joints. Mostly right shoulder (opposite side I got the shot) lower back and right knee... all areas I have issues with from time to time. Right shoulder, don't know what causes it. Lower back, had a herniated disc. Right knee, torn meniscus. Only areas that I had any joint pain. Kinda weird. Even the sore injection site is gone today. Not all bad. I did end up having a 99.7 temp at one point yesterday. Didn't get to the 102 my son did thankfully.

Had my second shot Sunday 12 noon. Started feeling tired about 6pm. arm started hurting. Woke up Monday like I had a case of the flu. Chills, fatigue, body aches and a terrible headache this lasted all of Monday. Also had back pain where I always do when I over do things. Yesterday, Tuesday I felt fatigued but better. It took the entire day to start feeling normal.

My nephew who is 6'2" all muscle fireman was laid out for 2 days after his second dose. Who knows?

Not fun but well worth it.