Gayle Kingis grateful for her COVID-19 vaccination.
King later added, “Here’s the thing: I’m tired of being scared. Honestly. I’ve been so afraid, hunkered down here at home. I’m tired of being scared.”
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King’s friendOprah Winfreypreviously also expressed her excitement about being vaccinated, writing in apersonal essayfor her digital platformOprah Dailythat she had profound relief and joy upon getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
“Stedman [Graham]and I were blessed enough to be able to create our own bubble at home during the pandemic,” Winfrey, 67, wrote, noting that they werevery strictabout letting people join them. “Anyone who wanted to come from outside had to be quarantined in our guest house for 14 days. No exceptions —not even Gayle.”
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“The first shot, I wanted to cry but didn’t, just from the overwhelming sense of relief. I’d hadpneumonia the previous year, and my lungs were still sensitive,” she wrote. “I was very much afraid of the toll COVID-19 would take on me; it’s why I was so super strict about the goings and comings of everyone in my space.”
“After the second vaccination shot, Ididn’t feel wellfor about 30 hours. I had all theclassic symptoms: fever, chills, lethargy. But it was such a small inconvenience to be protected against a virus that’s killed so many,” Winfrey added. “I thought a lot during that time about the more than half million people in this country who lost their lives because of this virus, and what they had to endure.”
“Afterwards, I felt like superwoman,” she wrote.
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