Post COVID-19 Vaccine-associated Complications

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Ajay Prakash Tripathi
Ashish Sharma
Dr Himanshu Jain
Chandrakant Salve
Dr Aayush Malik
Tejaswini Dwivedi

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic is being fought against worldwide; the major weapon against this pandemic
has been the vaccine against it. There are reports of neurological complications and sequelae after
COVID-19 vaccinations, some cases with ChAdOx1 nCov-19 is adenovirus vector-based vaccines. In
India vaccination program against covid19 is using this vaccine by this vaccine. Reports of vaccineassociated side effects have emerged, which are rare but serious. This case series presents a few such cases reported in our hospitals:- RD Gardi Medical college (CR Gardi Hospital, Ujjain) and Charitable trust Hospital, Ujjain.

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Tripathi, A. P., Sharma, A. ., Dr Himanshu Jain, Salve, C., Dr Aayush Malik, & Dwivedi, T. (2023). Post COVID-19 Vaccine-associated Complications. Central India Journal of Medical Research, 1(03). https://doi.org/10.58999/cijmr.v1i03.35
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