My husband and I are both healthcare workers and will both be getting the vaccine once it’s available. The vaccine is fairly safe, main side effects are injection site reaction, fever, body aches, headache. Side effects are most pronounced after the second injection (21 days for the Pfizer and 28 days for Moderna). The available vaccines will not give you covid and if one happened to get the virus after getting the vaccines the severity of the disease is less according to the study. In addition, if one have had covid in the past the immunity will likely last for 3 months and getting a vaccine is still advisable. The academic institution that we work for is one of Chicago’s leading hospital handling this pandemic. I’ve seen what covid can do from mild to severe form of the disease and the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the risks.