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[quote=Anonymous]Jeff would call me an anti-vaxxer.  I call myself vaccine-conscious.  DH is in the foreign service so I've been vaccinated for typhoid, yellow fever, and all sorts of things no one is normally vaccinated for.  But, yes I'm nervous about new, unapproved, experimental vaccines that don't have 2+ years of research.  And I read every crazy report (the latest one is on heart enlargement?)

Anyway, it really hasn't impacted me because I never leave the house.  (I was laid off at the beginning of Covid.) But we are going to Seattle this summer at the end of July which is the middle of an outbreak right now so DH has put his foot down and I need to get a first-shot vaccine no later than the end of May.  DH already got the Moderna (with terrible near-death side effects which then scared me even more.)

I won't do J&J -- I have a high risk of blood clots.

So my only options are Pfizer or Moderna.  Please do NOT say "either."  That does not calm me down.  I need a reason for getting one vaccine over the other.  I know both have a claimed (maybe false) risk of heart enlargement.  But I know that Covid is a lot more dangerous.  I know both are mRNA vaccines but what are the differences between them?  I'm leaning toward Pfizer because of DH's experience with Moderna (2-days out cold in bed, sweating and pale and nearly unconscious the entire time -- could not stay awake).

TIA![/quote]

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