You have been vaccinated with Moderna and are under 30 years old: do you have to worry? – Numerama

The High Authority for Health has indicated that the Moderna vaccine is no longer recommended for people under the age of 30. If you are under 30 and received this vaccine several months ago, however, you should not worry.

The Moderna vaccine to messenger RNA is now not recommended for people under 30, let know the High Authority for Health (HAS) on November 8, 2021. It returned “ its opinion on the place of Moderna’s Spikevax vaccine in the vaccine strategy after the latter obtained an extension of Marketing Authorization [ndlr : autorisation de mise sur le marché] for the reminder “.

The organization would like to recall that vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna are both ” safe and effective but studies show a slight superiority of Spikevax in terms of efficacy and lower risks of myocarditis for Comirnaty [ndlr : le nom du vaccin de Pfizer], especially for people under 30 years old », Can we read in the press release of the HAS. Due to a lack of hindsight ” on the risk of myocarditis with the Spikevax vaccine used in half-dose for the booster “, The HAS recommends the use, for people under the age of 30, of the Pfizer vaccine,” whether it is a primary vaccination or a booster “. The government let know that it took into account this recommendation of the HAS.

“If you have been vaccinated a long time ago, there is no risk”

If you are under 30 and received the Moderna vaccine several months ago, however, you should not worry, as affirmed it Karine Lacombe, infectious disease specialist and head of the infectious diseases department at Saint-Antoine Hospital (AP-HP), on France Inter this Tuesday, November 9: ” this risk does not appear until seven days after vaccination, so if you were vaccinated a long time ago, there is no risk “.

It is normal that vaccines cause side effects, which occur in the few days following the injection, but they are mostly safe. This is a sign that the immune system is responding to the vaccine and behaving as if there is a real infection – because the vaccine causes it to spot the virus and fight it off quickly. Side effects are different for different people, and their duration is also variable. After vaccination, you must a few weeks to develop immunity against the virus responsible for the disease, SARS-CoV-2. In the long term, there are no more side effects attributed to the vaccine.

In other words: if you are under 30 and received a Moderna vaccine several months ago (possibly with side effects in the days following the injection), you don’t need to worry about the recent announcement of the HAS.

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