Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday that he felt “achy” and “fatigued” after receiving the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, The Hill reported.
“I was hoping that I wouldn’t get too knocked out. I did for about 24 hours. Now I’m fine,” Fauci said at a White House event while discussing the side effects of his coronavirus vaccination, reported The Hill. “Fatigued. A little achy. You know. Chilly. Not sick.” (RELATED: Dr. Anthony Fauci Predicts When The Face Masks Might Come Off)
Asked if he had 2nd dose of coronavirus vaccine, Dr Fauci told us: “I did. I had it on the 19th. I was hoping that I wouldn’t get too knocked out. I did for about 24 hours. Now I’m fine.”
“Fatigued. A little achy. You know. Chilly. Not sick,” he told me, ahead of Biden remarks. pic.twitter.com/Ob0Pb91rrQ
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Fauci took the first dose of the vaccine on live television in December to increase public confidence in the vaccine due to apparently low national confidence. An Axios-Ipsos poll showed that 61% of Americans said they would not take a first-generation coronavirus vaccine. Another poll found that less than 50% of Americans are willing to take the vaccine. (RELATED: Amazon Offers To Help Biden Administration With Vaccine Effort After Sitting On The Sidelines For A Month)
More than 17.5 million people in the U.S. have received the vaccine so far, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.