最近ではある大手製薬会社のワクチンの効果について、非常に高い効果があると報じられました。
高い効果を示す一方で、その副作用も強いそうなのですが・・・。
Public health officials and drugmakers must be transparent about the side effects people may experience after getting their first shot of a coronavirus vaccine, doctors urged during a meeting Monday with CDC advisors as states prepare to distribute doses as early as next month.
Dr. Sandra Fryhofer of the American Medical Association noted that both Pfizer’s and Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccines require two doses at varying intervals. As a practicing physician, she said she worries whether her patients will come back for a second dose because of the potentially unpleasant side effects they may experience after the first shot.
(Berkley Lovelace Jr. Doctors say CDC should warn people the side effects from Covid vaccine shots won’t be ‘a walk in the park.’ CBS News. November 23, 2020.)
アメリカの大手製薬企業が開発したワクチンは2度の接種が必要ということですが、高熱や倦怠感など、強い副作用を伴うことが分かっており、ワクチン接種者が第2回目の接種をしなかった場合の効果への影響が懸念されます。
つまり、第1回目の接種でもうこりごり、というような状況が想定されるということです。
記事のタイトルでは、
the side effects from Covid vaccine shots won’t be ‘a walk in the park’
ということなんですが、この"(a) walk in the park"と言うフレーズは口語表現で、
something that is easy to do
(Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
という意味です。
似た意味の表現としてよく知られているものに、"piece of cake"があります。
たやすいこと、という意味で、朝飯前、朝茶の子、などと日本語でいいますね。
“We really need to make patients aware that this is not going to be a walk in the park,” Fryhofer said during a virtual meeting with the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, an outside group of medical experts that advise the CDC. She is also a liaison to the committee. “They are going to know they had a vaccine. They are probably not going to feel wonderful. But they’ve got to come back for that second dose.”
(ibid.)
“We really need to make patients aware that this is not going to be a walk in the park,” Fryhofer said during a virtual meeting with the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, an outside group of medical experts that advise the CDC. She is also a liaison to the committee. “They are going to know they had a vaccine. They are probably not going to feel wonderful. But they’ve got to come back for that second dose.”
(ibid.)
インフルエンザ予防接種を始め、ワクチンには副反応のリスクはあるものの、つらい経験をしたという人はあまりいないかもしれません。私もそのような経験は無いのですが、コロナワクチンはちょっと大変ですよ、となると、それを知った上で接種というのも腰が引けます・・・。
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