Thank you for this. This is additional info I can share with my patients. I am a family doctor in rural Indiana. I have been telling my patients to get vaccinated ASAP. I have 80-90 year olds who do not want to take the shot, because " I do not go out and I stay at home all the time" and there are plenty who are waiting for the J&J vaccine because they want just one shot. Thankfully though, I already have plenty of patients 70 and above who are fully vaccinated and 9/10, I think, only had none to very minor side effects. Getting a serious adverse reaction seems to be still their number one fear (PS, thank you signing my books.)
Dr. El-Sayed, I'm afraid of injected RNA in my body, creating spike proteins. I'm imagining it causing my body to produce little spikes (think gout). I WANT the J&J vaccine, but cannot get information from our health department about which formula they have. Help, our appointment is tomorrow, and our drive is an hour each way. We're probably not going because a memo I read say they got Moderna vials... Then my thinking leads me to wonder if my immune system will destroy that RNA before it commandeers my body to replicate itself. Lots of scouring reliable sources for this answer yielded nothing. I believe in vaccinations, as a retired RN I've given hundreds, and I get all my own on the suggested schedule. Your thoughts?
Thank you for this. This is additional info I can share with my patients. I am a family doctor in rural Indiana. I have been telling my patients to get vaccinated ASAP. I have 80-90 year olds who do not want to take the shot, because " I do not go out and I stay at home all the time" and there are plenty who are waiting for the J&J vaccine because they want just one shot. Thankfully though, I already have plenty of patients 70 and above who are fully vaccinated and 9/10, I think, only had none to very minor side effects. Getting a serious adverse reaction seems to be still their number one fear (PS, thank you signing my books.)
After reading this I have only one question. Which arm should I use?
I'm glad I read this-will take the first one offered! Makes sense to me!
Dr. El-Sayed, I'm afraid of injected RNA in my body, creating spike proteins. I'm imagining it causing my body to produce little spikes (think gout). I WANT the J&J vaccine, but cannot get information from our health department about which formula they have. Help, our appointment is tomorrow, and our drive is an hour each way. We're probably not going because a memo I read say they got Moderna vials... Then my thinking leads me to wonder if my immune system will destroy that RNA before it commandeers my body to replicate itself. Lots of scouring reliable sources for this answer yielded nothing. I believe in vaccinations, as a retired RN I've given hundreds, and I get all my own on the suggested schedule. Your thoughts?