Few Side Effects of COVID-19 Vaccine Seen in Patients in Small Study

Parkinson’s disease patients don’t appear to be at an increased risk for side effects after getting the COVID-19 vaccination compared with the general population, and reported having fewer reactions to it than healthy participants in a small study. “Our data showed few [adverse events] reported after…

Panic Sets In as My Parents Test for COVID-19

“How’s your 2022 so far?” I text my dad a few days into January. “Not so good,” his message lights up my phone. “I think I have COVID.” At first, I think he’s joking. He’s always finding ways to look on the bright side of life, and sometimes doing so…

Dad Receives the COVID-19 Vaccine

It is a Thursday evening when my sister asks me to come up with fake illnesses to give my dad. He has just received his first dose of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine, and my sister, ever the practical jokester, wants to tease him.