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"Side effects are a sign that the vaccine is working" | Israel today

2020-12-29T15:37:42.664Z


| health Israel is in the second week of Operation "Give Shoulder", and some of the vaccinated have reported pain, fever and chills • Experts claim: "This is how the immune system responds to the injection" The coronary virus vaccines of the Pfizer and Modern companies do not contain attenuated or killed virus at all, and yet in a small proportion of their recipients they provoke, surprisingly, a strong r


Israel is in the second week of Operation "Give Shoulder", and some of the vaccinated have reported pain, fever and chills • Experts claim: "This is how the immune system responds to the injection"

The coronary virus vaccines of the Pfizer and Modern companies do not contain attenuated or killed virus at all, and yet in a small proportion of their recipients they provoke, surprisingly, a strong response of the body's immune system such as muscle aches, headaches, fever and chills. 

Continuation of corona vaccines to the population // Photo: Moshe Ben Simhon

Journalist Sarah Zeng from the Atlantic deals with an article on why these side effects occur if the body is not infected with the disease at all.

She explains that "these side effects, such as fever, pain and chills, are part of the fact that our immune system has started to function following the injection." 

"The vaccine puts a chain of MRNA into the body that instructs the body to produce only the protein with which the corona virus enters the cells. After this protein is produced, it recognizes the body that has an invasive substance, and activates our immune system," she explains. 

Saad Omar, director of the World Health Institute at Yale University and a virus specialist, explained: "The side effects mean that the vaccine has succeeded. The body system that fights diseases has awakened and started working strongly. It is true that the vaccine strongly stimulates this system "But these are still very mild side effects relative to the damage caused by the corona virus itself." 

Photo: Pfizer

According to Zanj, "It is important to explain to the vaccinators that the body's response to the corona vaccine is slightly more severe than the reactions and side effects that occur in the case of a flu vaccine. "There may be a slightly stronger response than that of the flu vaccine. It is a response that is reminiscent of the body's response after receiving a shingles vaccine." 

In addition, strong side effects are associated with the vaccination process in hospitals and places that care for nursing people.

According to the article, in such places it is advisable not to vaccinate the entire staff that day so that not all caregivers will feel bad and have difficulty providing help if they have to do so. 

Deborah Fuller, a microbiologist and vaccine researcher at the University of Washington, explains: "It is very important to coordinate expectations with the public regarding the corona vaccine. After the first vaccination phase there is a reaction of the body's natural defense system. Of the body that attacks the protein produced by the vaccine, thus creating the initial resistance against the disease.Of course after the initial acute reaction, the body's immune system produces two types of fighting cells: one cell that knows how to attack body cells infected with the virus called T cell, and other cells Who know how to fight the corona virus directly and are called type B cells. " 

Why do allergic people need protection after the vaccine?

One of the reported symptoms reported with regard to vaccines indicates that people with a high tendency to allergies, may develop after the injection an allergic shock of the body called in the professional literature anaphylaxis.

These are not side effects but a drop in blood pressure and life-threatening breathing problems.

According to the information currently available at health organizations around the world, the phenomenon appears mainly in Pfizer vaccines.

In this case it is necessary to inject the allergy recipient with a substance called epinephrine and his condition returns to normal.

This is also the reason why unlike ordinary people who are ordered to remain under observation for only a quarter of an hour, people with a tendency to allergies are ordered to remain under observation for at least half an hour. 

The reason for the allergic reaction stems from a number of substances added to MRNA to preserve it and to make it easier for it to penetrate the body cells better.

These are sugars and animal substances, which protect the vaccine itself so that it is not destroyed in the body.

These substances not only protect the MRNA, but actually push it into the cells and thus further encourage the body to produce the special protein with which the corona virus attacks the cells.

It is this learning that produces our immunity, but since it is a complex substance it can produce allergies. 

In any case, the knowledge of how to use MRNA in vaccines is a completely new step in the modern medical world, and there is a step forward here that will allow in the future to develop good vaccines not only against viruses like flu or corona but also against cancer cells.

The body knew how to recognize those cells by injecting it with a chain of MRNA that would teach it to recognize them by a particular protein and then attack them.

It is true that this method causes side effects (in the modern vaccine more than in the Pfizer vaccine, as the case may be due to other doses), but these are very negligible if one considers the actual damage to the body that the corona virus itself can cause.

Source: israelhayom

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