Severe Covid-19 Vaccine Side-Effects are Rare in Older Adults yet are Linked With Depressive Symptoms

Yaakov Hoffman; Yuval Palgi; Robin Goodwin; Menachem Ben-Ezra; Lee Greenblatt-Kimron

doi:10.1016/j.jagp.2021.09.010

Severe Covid-19 Vaccine Side-Effects are Rare in Older Adults yet are Linked With Depressive Symptoms

Yaakov Hoffman, Yuval Palgi, Robin Goodwin, Menachem Ben-Ezra, Lee Greenblatt-Kimron

Department of Gerontology

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Abstract

COVID-19 vaccine development should have been the “light at the end of the tunnel.” However, antivaccinations attitudes and hesitation are common,1 even among older adults. Such hesitancy has been positively associated with depression, potentially due to concerns about vaccine side-effects.2 We tested the association between depression and vaccine side-effects in older adults, and hypothesized that, like physical illness,3 depression should increase with each additional side-effect.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	115-116
Number of pages	2
Journal	American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Volume	30
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2021.09.010
State	Published - 1 Jan 2022

Keywords

Aged
COVID-19
COVID-19 Vaccines
Depression
Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions
Humans
SARS-CoV-2

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Geriatrics and Gerontology
Psychiatry and Mental health

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