Yes, you can probably drink after your second COVID-19 vaccine shot\

“Be very cognizant of what moderate drinking really means,” as Ilhem Messaoudi, director of the Center for Virus Research at the University of California, Irvine, tells the Times. “It’s dangerous to drink large amounts of alcohol because the effects on all biological systems, including the immune system, are pretty severe and they occur pretty quickly after you get out of that moderate zone.”