Table 2.

Main side effects of vaccines for COVID-19.

Vaccine Brand Name	Common Side Effects	Rare Side Effects
BNT162b2 Pfizer/BioNtech [201,202]	Pain at injection site, fatigue, headache, muscle and joint pain, chills, fever, diarrhoea	Nausea, vomiting, myocarditis, pericarditis, angioedema, anaphylaxis
SinoVac-CoronaVac [202,203]	Headache, fatigue, myalgia, nausea, abdominal pain, fever, diarrhea, pain at injection site	Vomit, ocular congestion, muscle spasms, hyposmia, nosebleed, constipation, hiccups
ChAdOx1-S, AZD1222 [202,204]	Chills, fever, joint or muscle pain, fatigue, headache, nausea, diarrhea, vomiting	Sleepiness, abdominal pain, lymphadenopathy, muscle spasms, thrombocytopenia, Guillain-Barrè syndrome, thrombosias, anaphylaxis
mRNA 1273 [202,205]	Fever, headache, fatigue, myalgia, arthralgia, nausea/vomiting, chills, pain at injection site, lymphadenopathy	Pericarditis, muscle spasms, paraesthesia/hyperaesthesia, sleep disturbances, cholelithiasis/cholecystitis, hypersensitivity
BBIBP CorV [179,202]	Flushing, swelling, fever, headache	Nasopharyngitis, drowsiness, palpitation