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Man’s skin burns, ‘peels off’ in rare reaction to Johnson and Johnson vaccine

Announcement expected Wednesday on Pennsylvania's vaccination goals

Most Earth inhabitants will be getting a jab in the arm to vaccinate them against COVID-19.

While all of the available vaccines were rushed to development, production and distrubution, the US Food and Drug Administration finds they’re all safe for use.

But that does not mean that some people won’t have reactions to the shots.

A Virginia man suffered a rare reaction to a COVID-19 vaccine that caused a painful rash to spread across his entire body and skin to peel off, doctors said.

Richard Terrell, 74, of Goochland began suffering strange symptoms four days after receiving the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine, news station WRIC reported.

“I began to feel a little discomfort in my armpit and then a few days later I began to get an itchy rash, and then after that I began to swell and my skin turned red,” Terrell told the outlet.

But soon the rash covered his entire body, Terrell said.

“It all just happened so fast. My skin peeled off,” Terrell told the outlet.

“It was stinging, burning and itching. Whenever I bent my arms or legs, like the inside of my knee, it was very painful where the skin was swollen and was rubbing against itself,” he continued.

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