Expert opinion on if its safe to have coitus after you take the COVID vaccine

Team Udayavani, Apr 2, 2021, 3:17 PM IST

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Social media has been buzzing with queries as to if it is okay to have sex after getting the shot of the COVID-19 vaccine.

I’m in the Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine trail.. Why do they want participants of both sexes to agree not to have unprotected sex or try to conceive a child for so many weeks after getting a shot in the arm? It’s an mRNA vaccine! Makes ZERO sense to me.

— Jeremy Kamil (@macroliter) September 24, 2020

“Real men” get vaccinated ????

Fuck me https://t.co/ICWQriTBLI

— L&B (@LBP913) March 28, 2021

The Health Ministry hasn’t issued any formal guidelines about the same but medical experts suggest that men and women should use contraceptives after receiving the second dose.

As it is too early to say whether there are any long-term side effects of the vaccine or if it will affect a man and a woman if they have intercourse, prevention is the best way and hence it is advisable for men and women to use contraceptives for at least two to three weeks after receiving the second dose.