# Which vaccine would you get?

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [May 21, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-vaccine-would-you-get/942645 "2021-05-21T19:10:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-vaccine-would-you-get/942645/21 "2021-05-22T14:37:46Z")

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I was happy with my two doses of Pfizer and would do it again, given the choice. Entirely coincidentally, my gf also got Pfizer, making ours a Pfizer Pfamily.

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**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-vaccine-would-you-get/942645/22 "2021-05-22T14:40:21Z")

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I got the Moderna, but would have preferred Pfizer, mostly due to the more severe side effects (fever, aches, headache) for the former. Unless, of course, the more severe side effects are indicative of more protection, but that hasn’t been proven. My concern is that I on the Moderna track for future boosters, and thus I will get the same reaction each time.

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-vaccine-would-you-get/942645/23 "2021-05-22T16:19:50Z")

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> [@Kimera757](#):
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> Perhaps once demand has died down, after I’ve gotten my second shot. I don’t want to deny a shot to someone else who needs one so I’m not jumping the queue.

I know you’re not in the US, but the demand for vaccines has dropped so significantly, that clinics here have been accepting walk ins without an appointment. You’re not denying anyone else a shot at this point by getting one of your own. There’s more than enough for everybody.

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**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2021, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-vaccine-would-you-get/942645/24 "2021-05-23T03:09:07Z")

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It’s crazy how so many parts of the world are desperate for vaccine, but I can now walk into my grocery store and get vaxxed between buying my apples and my check out.

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**Author:** ![RandomCritic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@RandomCritic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandomCritic)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2021, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-vaccine-would-you-get/942645/25 "2021-05-23T12:09:52Z")

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Definitely NOT astrazeneca. Pfizer is the best.

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2021, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-vaccine-would-you-get/942645/26 "2021-05-23T12:16:15Z")

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> [@RandomCritic](#):
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> Pfizer is the best.

We are Pham-I-ly!

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**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2021, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-vaccine-would-you-get/942645/27 "2021-05-23T20:32:45Z")

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Turns out it was Pfizer, and no side effects whatsoever. But I would have taken whatever they had.

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**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-vaccine-would-you-get/942645/28 "2021-05-23T20:59:17Z")

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Great to hear you’re all set! Way to go!

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