Results confirm how uncommon known complications are as researchers confirm benefits from vaccines still ‘vastly outweigh the risks’
Two new but exceptionally rare Covid-19 vaccine side effects – a neurological disorder and inflammation of the spinal cord – have been detected by researchers in the largest vaccine safety study to date.
The study of more than 99 million people from Australia, Argentina, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, New Zealand and Scotland also confirmed how rare known vaccine complications are, with researchers confirming that the benefits of Covid-19 vaccines still “vastly outweigh the risks”.
Researchers working as part of the Global Vaccine Data Network used deidentified electronic healthcare data to compare the rates of 13 brain, blood and heart conditions in people after they received the Pfizer, Moderna or AstraZeneca vaccine with the rate that would be expected of those conditions in the population before the pandemic.
Cue 20 million people claiming this happened to several people they know.
If my mother hears about this she’s going to start screaming about blood clots again.
Incidence of thrombosis was much higher in people who contracted COVID, mind you.
On this note. It has happened to me, I still tell people to take it. Just not astrazenica one (I have a support group and it seems to be 90% Astrazenica) Take pfizer pls. My case is extremely extremity rare, and I was paid out by the government for it so it could be worse.
Great. Now I’m one of the assholes who knows someone. Lol. Seriously, hope things are alright now.
Could you share what happened to you and your support group members? Just curious! If you don’t want to, no worries.
Sure! I got the Astrazenica jab in my mid 20’s. Even though I had previously been infected with covid; this is because I was a care worker at the time so I wanted to keep the community safe.
I started getting issues over the next week with my eyes and legs, I was having a weird pain in my eye when I moved it to the side and my legs where also painful. My GP recommended to get some blood tests done.
Before I was able to complete the blood tests I woke up one morning and was unable to pee. I spoke to my GP and they told me to go to the hospital, I was admitted and cathaterised. Over the next week and a half my condition got worse and doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me.
I was losing my ability to move the lower half of my body and eventually lost all feeling in it during this time, my eyesight also started going blurry.
Finally they moved me to a neurology hospital in the centre of London and figured out my condition, it was called nuromeyeltis optica. This condition is where my immune system attacked my nerves in my spinal cord and also my optic nerve.
They put me on a huge dose of steroids to stop my immune system, and used a plasma transfusion to try and flush my system of the anti bodies.
It took me months to learn to walk again, as I spent a total of 2 months in hospital and then rehabilitation.
I’m mostly normal now, you wouldn’t know I was different if you saw me, other than I still have to use Cathaters to pee, suppositories to poop and my nerves still cause me great pain. So I’m really very uncomfortable tbh.
Fortunetly my eyes fixed themselves very fast, but I have a very small blind spot that honestly I don’t notice.
The government paid me out via the Vaccine Damage Scheme after 2 years worth £120,000, in which they sent me a 50 page report. Stating that it was due to the vaccine and what % of disability they thought I had. It was actually between 50-80% as they weighted in mental strain very highly and my age was considered young (although a dinusour on the Internet I’m sure lmao)
Anyway that’s what happened to me. It still so weird to think it’s such a rare case, I’m one out of I believe 100-200 people that had a successful vaccine damage payment scheme in the UK.
Taking ANY vaccine has risks, and these vaccines even more so, considering their untested nature when they were introduced. We had to trust the science, but it was still a gamble.
I took the vaccine knowing that side effects were possible. That was a risk I felt comfortable with, knowing that everyone else who took it faced that same level of risk and uncertainty.
It sucks that some had these side effects, but the effectiveness of the vaccine has saved countless more lives.
Let’s not forget that before the vaccine, Covid was quite deadly. We had literal mass graves, trucks full of bodies, mass cremations that couldn’t keep up with the death toll. Between that and the vaccine risk… the choice was easy. We came way closer to catastrophe than we like to think about.
EVERYTHING has risks. People have choked to death on food before - that’s not the reason to stop eating. There’s a risk the ceiling is going to fall down on your head at any moment, but then if you go outside, there’s a risk you might get hit by lightning or a bolt that fell off a Boeing flying above…
That’s not a dig at you by the way - it’s at people who argue in bad faith asking for 100% guarantees of safety, be it for vaccines or anything else. It is not possible, and people need to comprehend it - in this case the risk is on the level of being hit by lighting, so unless you’re afraid of going outside, you shouldnt be afraid of the darn vaccine…
Regarding mass graves:
New York:
https://time.com/5913151/hart-island-covid/
Peru:
Brazil:
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN22C0D2/
Trucks full of bodies:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/05/07/us/new-york-coronavirus-victims-refrigerated-trucks/index.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/texas-arizona-coronavirus-deaths-refrigerated-trucks-morgues/
Mass cremations and associated issues:
https://www.vox.com/first-person/22434028/india-covid-cremations
Now granted, some of those spilled over to when vaccines were available in the west. China had issues with lots of cremations as late as early 2023.
There were several missteps by vaccine proponents that undermined their case. There was also a lot of hyperbole from vaccine hesitant people that made them look hysterical.
Really. What missteps were made? The hysteria from hesitant anti-vaxxers and political fear mongerers were real, I would call “hesitant” people the ones who realize vaccines are a likely necessity but didn’t understand how the COVID vaccines worked and were probably influenced by lies from the ant-vax crowd.
What middle ground could possibly be made here regarding “truth”? Vaccine risks are known and fairly well established. The risks of early COVID strains were known. The only people straddling a fence in the middle are those who lack the knowledge of the risks or have objectively real medical problem with vaccines, not some made-up junk about mercury or something.
Vaccines are neither a 100% safe panacea, nor are they injectable death.
OMG this is binary JAQing off. Nobody suggests either of these and it’s ridiculous to even posit this phrase.
For anyone who doesn’t want to read the whole thing or misunderstood the heading. Here’s all you need to know
confirmed how rare known vaccine complications are, with researchers confirming that the benefits of Covid-19 vaccines still “vastly outweigh the risks”.
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extremely small risk of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis of 0.78 cases for every million doses, and 1.82 cases per million doses for transverse myelitis.
Without reading the article, there’s also a very relevant XKCD for this type of thing. They may well have controlled for it but it can be tough.
According to the conspiracy people on LinkedIn hundreds of millions of vaccinated people are already dead. I’ve had like four so I probably only have minutes to live.
Possibly I’m safe due to being in Australia, a country that doesn’t exist.
I had family members who told me the vaccine was going to kill me and various other stuff they heard from Fox News and similar.
They all caught COVID at a party in 2021 and died. Seriously. It’s awful what all this conspiracy crap is doing to people. It costs lives and affects everyone around them.
It’s troubling. The vaccine is obviously a bigger killer than covid ever was. The fact is 100% of all vaccine recipients will die within 1-90 years.
Oh great now my brother is going to quadruple down on not vaccinating any of his many kids
My mother too. Haven’t talked to her in 2 years because she went hard with me on how bad the vaccine is and challenged my college education and ability to think critically/do research, ultimately calling me gullible and stupid. It’s worth noting she dropped out of middle school and never even got her GED.
