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If you could choose which vaccine would you go for?

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Itllpass · 27/01/2021 19:10

Would you go for Pfizer, Astra Zeneca, Oxford or Moderna? Not sure if there are more but these are the ones everyone talks about..
Is there a reason behind your choice?

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Chailatteplease · 27/01/2021 22:53

I had the AZ and it made me really unwell. Was told by others who had pfeizer that they were fine. Still, no regrets. I breathed a sigh of relief to have had it.

Chailatteplease · 27/01/2021 22:55

@reginafalange2020 bit longer than 12 hours. Mine was 9:30 yesterday morning and I’m still taking paracetamol to keep temp down.

middleager · 27/01/2021 22:57

The two people I know in their 70s who had the AZ Oxford one were ill afterwards for a day with flu type symptoms. They're fine now.

Those who had Pfizer (70s and 80s) were fine, so I'd choose that one if I could.

LetItGoGo · 27/01/2021 22:57

The first I could get.

davidsSchitt · 27/01/2021 22:59

Well, you clearly don't know anything about them so what is this thread for? Hmm

Haffdonga · 27/01/2021 23:03

Whichever is offered to me first, but Pfizer has higher efficacy rates and apparently less side effects.

So Pfizer please Smile

AradiaGC · 27/01/2021 23:08

None yet, but I'm not being offered any yet so that's okay. If I do decide to have one, then Oxford. I'm concerned about potential autoimmune-related side effects of mRNA vaccines. Hopefully there's nothing to be worried about, but I'm a risk-averse person so I want to wait a while and see.

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Itllpass · 27/01/2021 23:13

@davidsSchitt and you still took the time to post a a comment??

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Itllpass · 27/01/2021 23:15

More people who have had the AZ one have complained of side effects as supposed to Pfizer- of course the contributing factors are many I suppose like age etc and I haven’t spoken to every single person who has had the vaccine..

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GlamGloria · 27/01/2021 23:18

The Dolly Parton one

MRex · 27/01/2021 23:23

Oxford-Astrazeneca would be great, Pfizer too. Mix them up to look like a western Sputnik and I'd happily have that regime in a research trial too. Actually I'd have Sputnik too, or at least the mRNA bit. Moderna fine, yes. Johnson & Johnson or Novovax most probably yes; I'd have signed up to their trials and expect them to do well.

So I'd have almost any. Not Sinovac nor Sanofi because it looks like neither works.

SandyStarfish · 28/01/2021 00:21

I wonder why Pfizer has reports of deaths following it, and Astrazeneca doesn't? They are probably unrelated to the vaccine, but why such distrust in the MRNA one? It almost makes me scared to have it, in favour of the more traditional one. But then if it's good enough for alll the medical staff, it's good enough for us, surely.

LetItGoGo · 28/01/2021 00:23

Why? Sensationalism.

Sparklingbrook · 28/01/2021 00:23

I don't care which I would be grateful for any of them.

borntohula · 28/01/2021 00:46

Couldn't even tell you the differences between them, so, any.

RainingBatsAndFrogs · 28/01/2021 00:54

My frail 89 yo parents had AZ and apart from feeling tired for a morning were absolutely fine.

Rubybluesy · 28/01/2021 01:06

Any/either the sooner the better

moominmomma1234 · 28/01/2021 02:13

I have read moderna might work best against the new strains. So maybe that one. Otherwise Pfizer but really want it with 3 week booster ! !

Iremembertheelderlykoreanlady · 28/01/2021 07:59

I will happily take any.

But if I got to choose them i would take the j and j one which should be approved soon(assuming the efficiency is similar to the others) as it's 1 jab

TokyoSushi · 28/01/2021 08:10

I work in the pharma industry, with what I know of both AZ & Pfizer, I'd happily have either.

RainingBatsAndFrogs · 28/01/2021 08:11

Either.

Though given a choice I would say AZ as it is much cheaper so I would prefer to put less ££ pressure on the system.

ILookAtTheFloor · 28/01/2021 08:22

I got to choose and I only chose the Pfizer because the Oxford was Wednesday morning availability, I was in meetings yesterday, today only had Pfizer so I've gone for that one.

Frazzled2207 · 28/01/2021 08:39

Well any but I have a big vote for novavax which should hopefully be approved by the spring - uk government has ordered 60 million doses.
I was part of the vaccine trial and everyone involved has been so professional and reassuring I would have no qualms atm about having it (I might actually have already had it but with zero side effects I suspect I got the placebo). If it was the placebo I have been told I can have the real thing later this year if/when it gets approved.

davidsSchitt · 28/01/2021 09:06

"and you still took the time to post a a comment??"

Why wouldn't I post to make my point that completely clueless people who have never even considered the ingredients or side effects of drugs before, nor anything else they ingest are starting threads like this.

It's really not helping.

Floppywin · 28/01/2021 10:37

@davidschitts - you mean like all the clinical staff and medical staff - and me - all in healthcare - we're all the dullards that can't research things ourselves and you're the genius ....ha ha ..you do everyone a disservice - research all you like, but people on the hard end of the virus know which they choose every time. Look at the statistics of who's had the vaccine in healthcare.

Yes had the vaccine this week and would take whichever one our country had approved - we see up close the real damage this virus can do to people's organs - this is not "just the flu" etc or whatever the hysterical conspiracy mongers are saying now.

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