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Study: Women, those 80-plus more likely to report COVID-19 booster side effects

April 18 (UPI) — Women and people age 80 years and older are more likely to report side effects after a third, or booster, dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine than other older adults, a study published Monday found.

However, side effects among adults age 60 years and older in the study were “generally mild” and “usually did not require medical care,” the data, published Monday by JAMA Network Open, showed.

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