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Meaghan de Chateauvieux received her first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a Monroe County clinic in mid-January. Fifteen minutes following the injection, she was told she could go home. "And I said, 'I don't really think so,' " she recalled. Her whole body was itching and hives broke out on her arms, chest and face. "I had the strangest feeling like my tongue was metallic...just a strange feeling like something wasn't right,” she explained. De Chateauvieux was experiencing a rare and severe allergic reaction to the vaccine. It happens only two to four times for every million doses that are administered. She was taken to a hospital emergency department, where her symptoms subsided in a couple of hours. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises people who have had a severe allergic reaction to a COVID-19 vaccine not to get a second dose, but de Chateauvieux, president and CEO of Willow Domestic Violence Center, was still committed to being fully vaccinated. "I am in