What If Your Arm Falls Off Right After a Vaccine?

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If you lost your arm almost immediately after being vaccinated, would you still be vaccinated?


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Sources:

Differential dependence on target site tissue for gene gun and intramuscular DNA immunizations (1997)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9144463/
https://www.jimmunol.org/content/jimmunol/158/10/4529.full.pdf?casa_token=hJY1dtw1OWsAAAAA:EXg-9JUIKudIOLeN4YrP8lfXgLF825_3NdUQiWnsW8r6keBU7jJ4XuYiSASJa6rO5NWFGr-v-m_hGSg

AHA Worksheet (debunked!)
WHO Vaccine info sheet: https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/how-do-vaccines-work

Butt shot accuracy (2006)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16495027/

Effect of anatomic injection site, age and smoking on the immune response to hepatitis B vaccination (1989)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2530717/

Inadvertent subcutaneous injection of COVID-19 vaccine
https://pmj.bmj.com/content/early/2021/02/15/postgradmedj-2021-139870.full

mRNA Vaccines: What Happens (2021)
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/01/21/mrna-vaccines-what-happens

Determination of deltoid fat pad thickness. Implications for needle length in adult immunization (1997)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9169899/

The importance of injecting vaccines into muscle: Different patients need different needle sizes
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1118997/#B3

Lymphatic info:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK557720/