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COVID-19 Vaccine

(From the CDC) Getting vaccinated is one of many steps you can take to protect yourself and others from COVID-19.  Protection from COVID-19 is critically important because for some people, it can cause severe illness or death.

Stopping a pandemic requires using all the tools available. Vaccines work with your immune system so your body will be ready to fight the virus if you are exposed. Other steps, like masks and social distancing, help reduce your chance of being exposed to the virus or spreading it to others. Together, COVID-19 vaccination and following CDC’s recommendations to protect yourself and others will offer the best protection from COVID-19.

COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective. Millions of people in the United States have received COVID-19 vaccines, and these vaccines have undergone the most intensive safety monitoring in U.S. history. This monitoring includes using both established and new safety monitoring systems to make sure that COVID-19 vaccines are safe.

Results from these monitoring efforts are reassuring. While some people don’t have any side effects after getting a COVID-19 vaccine, many people will have mild side effects after COVID-19 vaccination, like pain or swelling at the injection site, a headache, chills, or fever. These reactions are normal and show the vaccine is working. A small number of people have had a severe allergic reaction (called “anaphylaxis”) after vaccination, but this is extremely rare and when it does happen, vaccination providers have medicines available that they can use to effectively and immediately treat the reaction. You will be asked to stay for 15–30 minutes after you get your vaccine so you can be observed and provided treatment in the rare case it is needed.

CDC Web Pages Translated

CDC COVID-19 Vaccine website: Chinese, English, Korean, Spanish, and Vietnamese

How COVID-19 Vaccines Work: Chinese, English, Korean, Spanish, and Vietnamese

Ensuring the Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines in the United States: Chinese, English, Korean, Spanish, and Vietnamese

What to Expect at Your Appointment to Get Vaccinated for COVID-19: Chinese, English, Korean, Spanish, and Vietnamese

 

U.S. Food & Drug Administration Resources

Multilingual COVID-19 resources available about Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.

CDC Factsheets Translated

Facts about COVID-19 Vaccines: Chinese, English, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese

 

COVID-19 Vaccine Videos

Why You Should Get a COVID-19 Vaccine: Amharic, Arabic, Burmese, English, Farsi, French, Haitian Creole, Japanese, Karen, Korean, Kurdish, Kurdish (Sorani), Mandarin, Nepali, Pashto, Portuguese, Spanish, Somali, Swahili, Tigrinya, and Vietnamese