Mayo Clinic Provides Insight Into Receiving Covid Vaccine

Mayo Clinic Health Officials are providing insight into what it will be like to get the covid-19 vaccine when it's ready.

Are providing insight into what it will be like to get the covid-19 vaccine when it's ready.

Kimt new three's jessica bringe joins us live from mayo clinic with what we can expect the process to be like.

Jessica?

Lowerthird2line talent coronavirus:jessica bringe jbringe@kimt.com coverage you can count on amy, mayo clinic says due to data from nearly 80-thousand patients in covid-19 trials doctors can say there have been no major side effects from getting the vaccine.

Mayo jes-lvo-1 lowerthird2line coronavirus:mayo clinic provides insight into receiving covid-19 vaccine rochester, mn how it will work is patients will get two shots of one covid-19 vaccine brand 21-days apart.

If it's a little more than 21- days health officials say that's nothing to worry about - just make sure it's not too soon or too long.

Doctor melanie swift says the rate at which patients have mild side effects will likely be higher than a flu shot but that's nothing to be alarmed about.

Swift says to think about it as if you're training for a big fight.

Mayo jes-lsot-1 lowerthird2line coronavirus:dr. melanie swift mayo clinic health system your immune system needs to learn how to protect you from covid.

Think of the vaccine as a sparing partner.

It's going to teach you how to respond but in the process your immune system gets a little bit of a work out.

So, if you go gym and you work out and the next day your sore - it doesn't mean it wasn't an effective training session.

Lowerthird2line talent coronavirus:jessica bringe jbringe@kimt.com coverage you can count on this might be disappointing news to some - but even if you get the vaccine in the coming months health officials will still ask you to mask and social distance.

That's because there's a five percent chance it's not effective and live in rochester- jessica bringe kimt news 3 thank you jessica.

Mayo clinic does say, like with any vaccine, there's a minor risk of an allergic reaction..

Which is likely one in 50-thousand.

We'll have a more in-depth look..

Including on who will receive it first..

Coming up on kimt-new three at five.

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