Department of Medicine

Michelle Barron, with UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine], said virus mutations are expected. “Nature copies itself. It’s like handwriting,” she said. “It’s literally printing it out. At some point, it will make a mistake. The 100th time it copies itself, that mistake gets perpetuated, sometimes that’s meaningful. Sometimes it’s not.”

Michelle Barron, the medical director of infection control and prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], joined Denver7’s Jason Gruenauer to answer your questions about the COVID-19 vaccine.

“You got something real, and it wasn’t the placebo,” echoed Michelle Barron, an infectious disease specialist at UCHealth Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “I kind of scan our list every day to see what gets reported. Fatigue, headache, the sore arm of course. Some people including myself had muscle aches and body aches, but they lasted maybe six hours.”