Corona booster with Biontech: These side effects are the most common

Created: 01/17/2022, 20:11

By: Bettina Menzel

The booster vaccination serves to refresh the vaccination protection.

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Arm pain is the most common reaction to the Biontech booster vaccination.

What other side effects may occur and what the refresher brings.

Berlin – The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) now recommends the booster vaccination three months after the basic immunization.

The refresher helps prevent severe gradients.

It should also reduce transmission, as several studies show.

The RKI reports that the side effects of the booster vaccination are similar to those after the second vaccination.

Anyone who gets the booster vaccination should therefore not expect any major surprises.

Biontech: These are the most common side effects that occur after the booster vaccination

Vaccination reactions occur in one in ten people.

Of those who experienced side effects, 80 percent reported pain at the injection site.

“These reactions usually appear within two days of vaccination and rarely last longer than three days.

Most reactions are observed somewhat less frequently in older people than in younger people," says the RKI on the most common vaccination reactions.

• Vaccination reactions that occur very frequently (in more than 10 percent of subjects)

• Pain at the injection site (more than 80 percent)

• Fatigue (more than 60 percent)

• Headache (more than 50 percent)

• Muscle pain (more than 40 percent)

• chills (more than 30 percent)

No surprises with booster vaccination: "Comparable to second vaccination"

"According to the current state of knowledge, the frequency and type of possible side effects after the booster vaccination are comparable to those after the second vaccination," reports the RKI on the booster vaccination.

So if you have already been vaccinated twice, you know what to expect.

A frequently cited argument against the corona vaccination is allegedly unexplored long-term consequences.

But experts can quickly refute this.

First, there have never been vaccines that have been as well researched as the corona vaccines.

According to Johns Hopkins University, more than eight billion doses have already been administered worldwide since the beginning of the corona pandemic.

In this way, even the rarest side effects can be identified.

Severe side effects are also possible with the corona vaccination. But these are very rare and they do not appear suddenly after years, but hours, days or at the latest weeks after the vaccination. "Side effects that occur unexpectedly and only a long time (about several years) after the vaccination have not yet been observed with any vaccination," the Standing Vaccination Committee of the Robert Koch Institute explains the data situation.

Even if side effects are possible, it is significantly more dangerous to encounter the disease without vaccination.

Statistically, the relative risk of being admitted to the ICU as an unvaccinated person is about 17 to 20 times that of a vaccinated person.

A booster provides even more security: Severe courses in people over 60 years of age were 17.9 times rarer in people who had been vaccinated three times than in people with only two vaccinations.

This was the result of a study by Ron Milo from the Weizmann Institute of Science.