Left or right arm for a vaccine? Which arm can matter.
According to the research, if you are given a dose of a two-dose vaccine in one arm and then get the second dose in the other arm, the immune response is not as high. in EBioMedicine, a peer-reviewed journal from The Lancet Discovery Science, offers one suggestion as to why that would be the case.
“Our study indicates that ipsilateral vaccinations generate a stronger immune response than contralateral vaccinations,” explained Laura Ziegler, a doctoral student atIn an ipsilateral vaccination, the vaccine is injected twice into the same arm. In a contralateral vaccination, the primary vaccination is delivered in one arm while the booster is injected into the other.
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