Keimyung Med J.  2021 Dec;40(2):63-68. 10.46308/kmj.2021.00185.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine

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  • 1Department of Family Medicine, Seongnam Citizens Medical Center, Seongnam, Korea
  • 2Department of Family Medicine, Seongseong Onfamily Clinic, Cheonan, Korea
  • 3Department of Internal Medicine, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
  • 4Department of Family Medicine, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination is necessary to prevent infection, morbidity, and mortality. In addition to the usual post-inoculation hypersensitivity reactions including headaches, muscle and joint pain, and fever, especially after the second shot, the mRNA vaccine has risk of inflammation in the heart and heart lining of some recipients, mostly younger people. And the adenovirus vector vaccine can induce rare immune thrombocytopenia. Vaccination should be encouraged according to the information about the effectiveness and safety in individual situation.

Keyword

Adenovirus vector vaccine; COVID-19; mRNA vaccine
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