MrFoolish wrote:I had the Astra Zeneca jab yesterday.
I woke up at 4am with some of the symptoms of mild flu - bad muscle aches all over and feeling spaced out. The worst of it lasted about an hour. Feeling 80% better now, just a bit tired and headachy.
Highly unlikely to be a coincidence IMHO, especially because I know of others who have had reactions afterwards. I certainly don't regret having the jab but I feel my antibodies must now be well primed, so I wonder about the necessity of a second jab.
A common error. Your antibodies get progressively more 'primed' with the passage of time, and it takes quite a lot of time.
For the first two weeks the vaccine has ZERO efficacy apparently, then it begins to creep up reaching (according to who you read) the low 90 per cents after three months. Then the data runs out.
I agree with you about the second dose, I would not be one jot surprised if as the data picture unfolds, the govt cancels all second AZ doses in favour of continuing the first dose vaccination programme down the age range.