“…As I learned in nursing school, weight is an important factor that is often used to calculate an appropriate dose of medication, and failure to do so may result in various side effects….”
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Do fat people have a stronger and more responsive immune system? Do skinny people have a weaker and less responsive immune system? Not trying to be a smart ass, I really don’t know. I do know (at least I think I know) that all adults (with some exceptions for older people who need a bigger dose because of their weaker immune system) get the same size of vaccine injections regardless of weight.
“Do fat people have a stronger and more responsive immune system? Do skinny people have a weaker and less responsive immune system? Not trying to be a smart ass, I really don’t know. I do know (at least I think I know) that all adults (with some exceptions for older people who need a bigger dose because of their weaker immune system) get the same size of vaccine injections regardless of weight.”
My wife who was the head/lead office RN for a very large and busy Family Practice for about 40 years was just questioned on these issues by me. “She has Zero experience with this vaccine except being a patient and surviving 2 shots.
She said, “There was never any difference in vaccine doses due to weight differences, age or sex.
Toward the later couple of years of her practice: Older patients got a larger dose of the flu shot of the year and the pneumonia shot.(as you noted above due to our weakened immune systems).
I out weigh her, her female friends and our female siblings and we all got the same Pfizer dose. None of us are obese/over weight.
One of our 50 something sons, without an ounce of fat got the same dose as his wife and daughter (they are 35-45 pounds lighter than him.). They had minimal side effects. He was hammered by the first dose and missed close to a week’s work after his first dose. He had zero problems with his 2nd shot. His female family members had minimal problems with either shot.
One older male friend got shingles in the stomach area after his second shot and got an injection at an outpatient clinic and that cleared the shingles up.
I got Clovid Arm after my first Pfizer shot and it disappeared after 2+ days. An RN friend said it might have been shingles, and my 2 Shingles shots two years ago came to the rescue.
As posted before, our women folk, who got vaccinated across the nation had less side effects than the weaker sex, the guys.
Most of us are 2+ months after our second shot and are still alive and on this side of the grass.