hey guys welcome to another video and this one i want to walk you through
my experience getting the pfizer covid vaccine so
i received the first shot about a month ago and then i received the second shot which was three
weeks after the first shot that was about a week ago and i want to walk you through my experience
and i already updated you after the first one so this is the update after the second pfizer shot
so here i am getting my second pfizer vaccination three weeks after my first
first time is just a little bit of soreness in my left arm
and hopefully it's gonna be nothing more than the same thing so here we go
all right all good thank you
so we're here with dr hansen tuesday january 5th dr hanson just got his second dose of the pfizer covid 19 vaccine how are you feeling dr hansen
do you anticipate any different reaction to this dose in comparison to the first dose
i don't anticipate that and i say that because first dose went smoothly
but also when you look at the pneumonia medicine study the second dose in the study there's only
slightly higher uh chances of having side effects so uh because i didn't have the first dose i
think my chances of having the second dose are still pretty small overall so i don't anticipate
anything bad happening other than a little a little bit of a forearm for about 24 hours
so recently we've heard about a new more virulent strain from the uk is this vaccine going to
protect you against that strain hopefully uh i expect it to uh the b117 variant
is being looked at in the uk in terms of vaccine effectiveness against it and it's also being
looked at in this country right now and uh even though mutations occur every two weeks or so
it takes a lot to actually change the um the spike protein in terms of the antibodies that are
attacking from the vaccine so with this vaccine there's lots of different triggers for the immune
system and the antibodies that are developing are attacking different antigens on that spike protein
and so the spike protein has to change dramatically for the uh those antibodies not
to be effective so although it's not impossible i would be surprised that if the vaccine weren't
effective and if it is less effective i expect it to be minimally less effective not drastically
thank you we certainly hope for that so what percentage protection would you have now after
your second dose i expect my immune system to be fully geared towards tapping this virus in
about a week from now and how long after this dose would you have that optimal protection the
studies are showing at least six months probably more than that uh maybe a year but the definitive
evidence on how long those protective antibodies last isn't concrete right now other than what
we know is at least going to be six months so how should people act after they get their second shot
should they still wear a mask should they steal social distance yeah so we're all gonna have to
continue to social distance and mask and wash hands until the pandemic is over really and
uh that pandemic is not going to be over until we reach herd immunity which really
is going to mean that about 80 percent or so the population is going to have to get the vaccine
so just because someone gets the vaccine that doesn't mean they can stop wearing a mask and
social distancing it's going to take time for the entire population to get over this pandemic
once that happens that's when we can stop distance my best guess is the fall but we don't know
thank you dr hansen for your service on the front line we appreciate you thank you
about a few hours after i got the shot i did have some soreness in my arm and it lasted for about
two days it did hurt more compared to the first one perhaps because the needle was in my arm for
longer that's what i observed when i went back and watched both of the videos of me getting my first
and second shot about 40 hours after getting the second shot i did feel a little feverish
mixed with having some chills and some fatigue i did check my temperature and it was 99 degrees
fahrenheit so not reaching the threshold for fever which is 100.4 degrees fahrenheit
which is 38 degrees celsius so i went to sleep and the next morning i felt fine and
i've been feeling fine ever since i even had the energy and some time to rock out on the drums
so it's been seven days since i've had the second shot and now my immune system is activated against
the virus and this is what was going on when i was feeling those symptoms of maybe a little
feverish and chills and fatigue my immune system was revving up the antibodies all the different
antibodies that are going to target the spike protein of the coronavirus now because it's been
seven days there has been some news that's come out since i last recorded that video
from me getting that second shot scientists have identified an escape mutant that may decrease the
efficacy of some of these vaccines so this variant is called it's the mutation has the e484k so this
has been found in the variant of the coronavirus that was first spotted in south africa two months
ago which has since spread to 12 other countries so far at least we can tell the united states is
not one of those this variant is being called an escape mutant because it's been shown that
it might be able to escape some of the antibodies produced by the vaccine so far scientists say that
they highly doubt this e484k vaccine will render the covid vaccine useless because the variant
won't be able to escape all the antibodies produced by the vaccines as these vaccines
trigger multiple antibodies to be produced that attack different antigens of the spike protein
now researchers in seattle and other places have looked at plasma from patients who've recovered
from covid 19 to see if their antibiotics can fight off this e484k variant and other mutations
now what they found is that this variant it challenges the ability of some antibodies to
neutralize the virus scientists are also looking at other covid variants so i think the big
takeaway here is that for some of the variants it will likely result in some vaccines being somewhat
less effective but it's also important to remember that as new variants emerge so can corresponding
vaccines because it's easy to tweak the genetic code this rna based on the new mutations
so if there's a mutation here the scientists can go into the lab they already know that the mrna
sequence and then they can take the mrna sequence and insert that specific change into the new
vaccine so it's very easy to modify these vaccines because they're mrna vaccines now also moderna
came out today and said that their vaccine causes protective antibodies to last for at least a year
now does the pfizer vaccine mean the same thing my guess is probably but we don't know that for
sure at this point so of course i'll be continuing to watch this closely so make sure you subscribe
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