a message from Asbury’s Health Ministry Team
Common side effects are fever, chills, fatigue, headache, muscle aches, and nausea.
More severe side effects include breathing trouble, swelling of face and throat, rapid heartbeat, dizziness and bad rash on body. Call 911 if these occur.
Immunity from a vaccine is the immunity you build when you receive a vaccination.
Unlike natural immunity you have to suffer from the actual disease to gain immunity.
Vaccines work by triggering your body to produce antibodies that will help you fight off disease.
The flu vaccine is an inactivated dead version of the germ that causes the disease, example flu.
Covid vaccine is a messenger RNA vaccine which triggers your cells to produce a protein found on the germ which allows antibodies to fight off the germ from the disease.
The biggest risks of not getting vaccinated are that you will get the disease that the vaccine would have prevented and a good chance of spreading the disease to people who are vulnerable and have serious complications.
Learn about the Flu/COVID/RSV Clinic being held on October 6