# Looks like a booster shot will be needed after a year

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [April 16, 2021, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-a-booster-shot-will-be-needed-after-a-year/940143 "2021-04-16T12:17:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-a-booster-shot-will-be-needed-after-a-year/940143/41 "2021-04-19T18:03:26Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> And a lot of people report the second shot is worse.

A friend of mine in California (who showed off her second vaccination Band-Aid on her popular Twitter account, thereby making me very jealous in two different ways) reports the second shot of Moderna just kicked her ass eight ways from Sunday. “It felt so weird after never getting any colds for over a year.”

She’s still glad she got it.

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