How common are severe side effects from COVID vaccines? And how are they detected?

  • Written by: Kristine Macartney, Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
How common are severe side effects from COVID vaccines? And how are they detected?Unsplash/Engin Akyurt

Former federal MP Dr Kerryn Phelps has talked this week about the medical problems she and her wife had after their COVID-19 vaccinations around 18 months ago.

In her submission to the parliamentary inquiry into long COVID, Phelps said her wife Jackie Stricker-Phelps had ongoing neurological problems after her first vaccine....

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