AZ had to offer the vaccine at cost because they didn't develop it themselves. It was a condition of the license from Oxford University.

I have been dosed with both AZ and Pfizer/BioNTech and I almost feel like I should have been paid to take the AZ. Brutal side-effects.

I also think I should've been paid for how brutal (and sudden) the effects of covid were on me - And that was something I didn't have any choice in the matter in...

I had zero side effects from the AZ vaccine. There is apparently a correlation with age and side effects.

Not necessarily a bad thing. If your body reacts strongly to a vaccine that is a sign that your immune system has taken notice. As a reductio-ad-absurdum argument: if you were injected with a saline solution you'd have no side effects (assuming a clean needle!) but also no protection at all.

Re: not a bad thing -

I had a really bad reaction to the second shot of Moderna and I was rather pissed about it until I realized that the symptoms were almost exactly the same as those of my father who actually had Covid. Except he had it twice as bad.

So the take-away for me was that if you have a bad reaction to a vaccine, consider yourself lucky, because it would’ve been much worse if you were to contract the actual virus.

There doesn't appear to be any real correlation between the severity of vaccine side effects versus long term protection. Those are separate parts of the immune system.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/what-covid-vaccine-side-...

Thank you!