科学美国人60秒 护士关于2019冠状病毒疾病疫苗的信息（在线收听）

Kristen Choi was flipping through Instagram this summer when she came upon an ad.

克里斯汀·崔(Kristen Choi)今年夏天浏览Instagram时，偶然看到了一则广告。

“I happened to get an Instagram ad one day for the Pfizer trial.”

“有一天，我碰巧在Instagram上看到了辉瑞制药试验的广告。”

The Pfizer trial for the COVID-19 vaccine.

辉瑞公司的COVID-19疫苗试验。

“And it just occurred to me that it was really important for people to volunteer to build the science for these vaccines.”

“我突然想到，让人们自愿为这些疫苗进行科学研究，真的很重要。”

Choi is a nurse and researcher at U.C.L.A. She filled out a form to apply. And in August, she got the first shot.

崔是加州大学洛杉矶分校的一名护士和研究员，她填写了一张表格来申请。8月，她得到了第一个机会。

“I had a long study visit, physical exam, blood tests, other tests, a coronavirus test to make sure I was healthy and able to participate. And then I got the injection the same day.”

“我进行了长时间的研究访问、体检、血液测试、其他测试，以及冠状病毒测试，以确保我的健康和能够参加。然后我当天就打了针。”

That first shot didn’t seem that unusual, she says—a little soreness in her arm. She didn’t know whether she’d gotten the real thing or just a placebo. A month later, she went in for round two.

她说，第一枪似乎没什么不寻常的，只是胳膊有点酸痛。她不知道自己注射的是真药还是安慰剂。一个月后，她参加了第二轮注射。

“The second shot, though, came with a lot more symptoms than I had ever experienced with another vaccine. I developed chills, nausea and headache fatigue a few hours after the vaccine. I was feeling pretty sick that day. I went to bed early and woke up in the middle of the night with a fever.”

“然而，第二次接种时出现的症状比我接种其他疫苗时出现的症状要多得多。接种疫苗几小时后，我开始发冷、恶心、头痛和疲劳。那天我感觉很不舒服。所以很早就睡了，半夜里发烧醒来。”

The next morning, her fever spiked to nearly 105. Her symptoms matched the side effects of the real vaccine, leading her to believe she’d gotten the real thing.

第二天早上，她的体温飙升至近105℉。自己的症状和真正的疫苗的副作用相符，这让她相信自己注射了真正的疫苗。

Later that day, her symptoms subsided. But she became concerned that others might feel similarly sick—and conclude, mistakenly, that the vaccine had given them COVID-19.

当天晚些时候，症状消退了。但她开始担心其他人可能也会感到类似的不适，并错误地得出结论，认为疫苗让他们感染了COVID-19.

“It’s a common myth in America that vaccines can cause diseases rather than prevent them. I see this belief or fear come up with the flu shot. And I think what’s important to communicate with the COVID-19 vaccine is the signals we get from a vaccine—fevers, chills, nausea, muscle pain, all the things I experienced—those are signs our body is learning to fight the virus.”

“疫苗会导致疾病，而不是预防疾病，这在美国是一个常见的误区。我看到这种想法或恐惧出现在流感疫苗中。我认为与COVID-19疫苗沟通的重要信息是我们从疫苗中得到的信号——发烧、发冷、恶心、肌肉疼痛，以及我经历过的——这些信号是我们的身体正在学习对抗病毒的信号。”

Choi wrote about her experience in JAMA Internal Medicine.

崔在《美国医学会内科杂志》上描述了她的经历。

She says health care providers like herself should prepare their patients for these possible side effects—and explain why they occur—to avoid the development of misinformation about the vaccine and its effects.

她说，像自己这样的医疗服务提供者应该让病人对这些可能的副作用做好准备，并解释为什么会发生这些副作用，以避免有关疫苗及其效果的错误信息。

“I also think it goes a long ways to be able to say to patients as a nurse or a health care provider, ‘I’ve taken this vaccine myself, and I think you should, too.’”

“我还认为，作为护士或保健提供者，告诉病人，‘我自己也接种了这种疫苗，我认为你也应该接种。还有很长的路要走。“

As for Choi—she still hasn’t learned whether she got the real thing. But she says being sick for a day is a small price to pay for protection against the virus.

至于崔，她还不知道自己是否注射了真正的疫苗。但是她说，生病一天对于对抗病毒来说是很小的代价。