; aside from the standard fatigue, nausea, and mild fever being reported, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine being connected to blood clots, and the subsequent pause on administering the brand, has made people wary., many of these people feel safe enough with one vaccine shot, compared to not being vaccinated at all. This is, perhaps, a response to some people reacting to the first shot and being fearful of getting sick from the second.
Medical experts, however, have repeatedly explained that those side effects"Your body is primed by that first dose of vaccine," Melanie Swift, MD, a co-chair of the COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation and Distribution Work Group at Mayo Clinic, explained during awith the clinic."The second vaccine dose goes into your body, starts to make that spike protein, and your antibodies jump on it and rev up your immune system response. It's kind of like they've studied for the test.