COVID-19 has plagued our planet for about a year now. Since it was qualified as a national pandemic, government testing facilities all over the world have been working day in and day out to create a vaccine for this virus. It’s taken these facilities a year to create a vaccine that can combat COVID-19. This is a record-breaking time in history for a vaccine to be in place. While only a select few places are currently giving them out to people, when they do become available, I highly recommend getting the vaccine.

I’m lucky enough to work in a government hospital and just the other day I got my first dose of the Moderna vaccine. I was a little nervous because it’s brand-new, but I have never had an adverse reaction to any kind of vaccine so I wasn’t too worried. A few hours after I had gotten the shot, which goes into your arm muscle, my arm was so incredibly sore I couldn’t lift my arm up. But keep in mind, that this arm soreness is something I would take any day over going through the pain of having COVID-19. Getting this vaccine will also lessen the chances of me catching COVID-19 and spreading it to other people.

The only people that shouldn’t be getting their COVID shot, and vaccines in general, are people that will go into anaphylactic shock or other health-related issues. My coworker’s daughter has Guilliam-Barré Syndrome which is an immune system disorder. This particular person physically cannot get a COVID vaccine because of this rare disorder, so she is forced to rely on people around her to get their vaccines to lessen her chances of getting COVID. When anti-vaxxers and people who don’t think COVID is real refuse to get the vaccine, they’re not only harming themselves but those around them. They’re too worried about what’ll happen to them and not everybody else around them.

While I understand people are suspicious of these vaccines, keep in mind, around 30,000 (if not more) people have been tested. The CDC wouldn’t give the OK to release this if it wasn’t safe.

One thing, in particular, the government is not putting “chips” inside of you when you get this vaccine. I don’t know where this rumor came from but, let’s be real, you carry your phone around with you everywhere.

If you want to keep up with COVID vaccine news, you can go to https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/index.html for more information about COVID-19 vaccines and other related questions.