An odd side effect is cropping up in people who get the Moderna coronavirus vaccine, according to a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
They suffer something that has become known as “Moderna arm.”
It’s an angry, red rash. It almost always appears on the same arm where the vaccine was given. Sometimes it spreads to the lower part of the arm or hand.
One common vitamin is being overlooked as a possible weapon against COVID-19, according to a new scientific review.
The nutrient may help prevent the severe, runaway inflammation that is often fatal to coronavirus patients, the authors say.
In an article published in the journal Frontiers in Nutrition, the researchers note that vitamin B6 has been shown to improve immunity, reduce inflammation, prevent blood clots, and promote lung health—all properties that could potentially help COVID patients.
Almost since the beginning of the pandemic, doctors believed they knew the most dangerous COVID-19 risk factors.
They were thought to be old age, obesity, diabetes, and lung, heart, and kidney illnesses.
But a major new Harvard University study has uncovered a previously unknown risk factor that make people far more vulnerable to getting a severe case of COVID. It analyzed the medical records of nearly 17,000 coronavirus patients.
On the day that Shelly Kendeffy got her second dose of the Moderna vaccine, the side effects hit her hard. She had a sore arm, body aches, and by evening it felt like the flu.
“My teeth were chattering, but I was sweating,” said Shelly, a medical technician in State College, Pa.[1]
By the next day she had recovered enough to go to work.
You may have read how the coronavirus crisis has caused health to suffer even in people who have not been infected.
Studies have found that Americans are putting on weight and suffering from mental health issues at unprecedented rates.[i] [ii]
Now, new research shows that many people with chronic pain conditions report they are hurting more.
This is no small matter.
Samantha was in the shower when she first felt it. There was a lump. It was near the side of her breast, just below her armpit.
Every woman knows—or should know—what this could mean.
“My aunt had breast cancer and is in remission,” Samantha said. “And there’s been other types of cancer on my paternal side. So I definitely thought this was something serious.”