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The sad part is that reactions to vaccines are vanishingly rare but real. I’m wondering if this lady’s immune system had an unusual strong response and left her with some kind of autoimmune disease. Fibromyalgia can be triggered following a virus and has been confirmed to be autoimmune.

But it is much better for vaccines to be mandatory to keep herd immunity for those that can’t have them and keep smallpox or polio from coming back.

Ironically the symptoms she’s describing sound like long covid which also gets ignored and denied support. It makes me wonder if her body did massively overreact to even the attenuated virus

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vividspecter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
None of the major vaccines for COVID are an attenuated virus to be clear, although some vaccines are made like that (usually older ones).

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- melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Ah that’s right! Are the major vaccines the RNA ones where it’s just the protein? I’ve forgotten.
  
  I had a brain fart and for some reason was thinking of traditional vaccines
  
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  - zero_gravitas@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    Are the major vaccines the RNA ones where it’s just the protein?
    
    Moderna and Pfizer are mRNA. Novavax is protein subunit. AstraZeneca is viral vector (not an attenuated SARS-CoV-2, a completely different virus).
    
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    melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Thanks, that’s good info
    
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  - vividspecter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    I wonder if the types affect the chance of a reaction for some people or in general
    
    Yeah, it does affect the type of severe reaction. AstraZenica had TTS, and with Moderna/Pfizer it’s pericarditis/myocarditis.
    
    Chances of it happening are very low for both vaccine types, but when you administer millions of doses, some minority are going to be affected.
    
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