WBZ-TV’s Dr. Mallika Marshall reports.
>> BEFORE WE MOVE ON QUICKLY, WHICH ARE EYE DOCTOR TELL YOU SOMETHING LIKE THIS? >> THIS IS SOMETHING WHERE EVENTUALLY YOU MIGHT GO TO AN EYE DOCTOR AND HAVE YOUR EYE SCANNED AND THEN THEY CAN LOOK AT THE IMAGES AND TELL YOU WHAT YOU GOT. >> THERE MAY BE A BENEFIT TO GETTING YOUR COVID SHOT IN THE SAME ARM ALL THE TIME . >> RESEARCHERS IN GERMANY FOUND GETTING SUBSEQUENT VACCINES IN THE SAME ARM GENERATES A STRONGER IMMUNE RESPONSE THAN SWITCHING BETWEEN THE ARMS AND THE TEAM LOOKED AT MORE THAN 300 INDIVIDUALS WHO RECEIVED AN INITIAL MRNA COVID VACCINE AND GOT A BLISTER. THEY FOUND THE NUMBER OF IMMUNE CELLS WAS SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER IN THOSE WHO RECEIVED THE VACCINE AND BOOSTER IN THE SAME ARM COMPARED TO THOSE WHO GOT THEM IN DIFFERENT ARMS AND WHILE THE ANTIBODY LEVELS WERE NOT SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT, THE ANTIBODIES GENERATED FROM THE SHOTS IN THE SAME ARE MORE ABLE TO DO THEIR JOBS BETTER. OF COURSE THIS NEEDS TO BE STUDIED FURTHER. STILL NOT
