Data reveals mild, short-lived vaccine side effects - Cayman Islands Headline News - Cayman News Service

(CNS): Up to 23 August there were no reported admissions to hospital in the Cayman Islands for side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine and no deaths associated with its administration, public health officials have confirmed. According to data collected from the vaccination forms submitted by people coming for their second dose, as well as calls to the HSA’s Flu Hotline or to practitioners providing care, close to 24,000 people reported some kind of side effect.

“Anyone who received a vaccine can submit a report,” noted Medical Officer of Health Dr Samuel Williams-Rodriguez. “Most of these reports of side effects are self-reported and therefore unverified with little to no evidence that the root cause is the vaccine.”

The most common complaint, reported by 13,596 people, was pain where the vaccine was injected. Other people reported head and muscle aches, fever, chills, fatigue or a combination of those things, which are all very common after any vaccine. “Duration of side effects is varied; no life-threatening side effects have persisted,” officials said.

Public health officials have released a chart documenting the self-reported side effects of the COVID-19 vaccines that were administered between 7 January and 23 August. During that time 99,886 doses were administered to more than 51,000 people, but less than half of them reported any side effects at all. 23,864 people reported 38,038 instances of side effect, since some said they had more than one.

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