Science: Link between coronavirus vaccines and Long Covid–like illness starts to gain acceptance | Studies probe cases of neurologic complications, blood pressure swings, and other side effects

submitted by stickdog from (science.org)

all 2 comments
sorted by:
new (suggested)
topinsightfulfun

[–]stickdog[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Science Magazine Acknowledges COVID Vaccine Damage, Only to Gaslight the Victims

"Long Vaccine" is rare, authors insist falsely

Is a 33% increase in POTS after a vaccine shot “far less common” than the 52% increase from Covid? That is a very disingenuous suggestion: people routinely get multiple rounds of Covid vaccines, having the risk multiply with each dose.

Who are the experts Science is quoting for this article?

  • Peter Marks, an FDA Commissioner, for whom all vaccines are perfect
  • German Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach, the evil Covid clown of Germany
  • Tom Shimabukuro of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, author of a fake study using incorrect denominators he published to “prove” that Covid vaccines are safe for pregnancy

The article seems like an attempt to acknowledge the ill effects of Covid vaccines while simultaneously sweeping them under the rug as “rare.”

...

Oddly enough, despite understanding some dangers of the spike protein, Science insists on giving people more shots of spike protein:

COVID-19 vaccines have saved millions of lives, and the world is gearing up for a new round of boosters.

Unsurprisingly, research projects involving Covid vaccine victims have difficulty attracting “funders”:

In the next few months, the nonprofit REACT19 plans to distribute small grants, in the tens of thousands of dollars, to teams studying immunology, biomarkers, and other features of postvaccine illness. Even modest support matters, Krumholz says, because “it’s incumbent on us to produce preliminary data” to win over funders with deep pockets.

...

[–]stickdog[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Emerging evidence of Long Vax syndrome highlights harms of medical misinformation

Experts told you Covid vaccine side effects were already known. That was a whopper of a lie burger.

In August 2021, ABC released a Covid vaccine campaign video called ‘Vax Facts!’.

In [the video, TV doctor Norman Swan told Australians that when it came to Covid vaccines, “We know what their side effects are already. There are no surprises around the corner.”(https://youtu.be/AhpuFFcRc0s)

Imagine my disbelief at hearing a verified Expert say such a scientifically unsupportable statement on a platform that I had hitherto regarded as trustworthy, at least on matters of life, death, and injury.

Dr Swan’s claim was impossible to make at the time that he made it.

The Covid vaccines were administered to billions of people well before the trials were complete. Phase 3 of the trials, the stage at which safety is tested for the first time at scale and over a period of several years, ran concurrently with the rollout, making the mass vaccination campaign unavoidably experimental. Some side effects were known, but others remained to be discovered.

Moreover, by the time the vaccines were rolled out, the pharma companies had also begun unblinding their trials (ie: giving the vaccines to the control group), so we will never actually have a proper picture of mid- and long term side effects from the randomised control trials (RCTs), as we do for other medicines.

Despite this, Dr Swan assured ABC’s viewers that there were no surprises around the corner.

But there were nasty surprises around the corner, and there continue to be.

Yesterday, vaccine injured Expert, Dr Kerryn Phelps, tweeted, “Seems cardiologists and neurologists are seeing enough patients with these #LongVax symptoms to recognise patterns of #neuropathy & #dysautonomia”

...

Dr Phelps said that, “In asking about adverse side effects, we were told that ‘the worst thing that could happen would be anaphylaxis’ and that severe reactions such as myocarditis and pericarditis were ‘rare’.”

In a stroke of terrible luck, both Dr Phelps and her wife, Jackie Stricker-Phelps, were injured by their Covid vaccinations, each with a constellation of ‘rare’ symptoms including neurological symptoms and musculoskeletal inflammation (Stricker-Phelps), and dysautonomia and cardiovascular problems (Dr Phelps).

Dr Phelps was one of the first establishment Experts to speak out about Covid vaccine injuries, in December 2022, though she has been criticised for waiting so long to do so - her diagnosis of vaccine injury was made in July 2021.

None of Dr Phelps or Stricker-Phelps’s injuries were widely known of at the time. It has taken several years of peer reviewed research and pooled clinical data to develop a better understanding of these sorts of Covid vaccine side effects.

This brings us to the misinformation rub.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is concerned about the potential harms of mis- and disinformation online, including harm to the health of Australians.

ACMA is so concerned that it is jockeying for new powers to crack down on misinformation, in proposed new legislation. I’m working on a piece solely dedicated to covering this legislation, however a relevant takeway for this post is that, while content posted by the plebs would be subject to ACMA’s proposed legislation, content posted by the government (and the government’s approved media and educational institutions) is excluded.

That is to say, mis- and disinformation disseminated by official sources will not be subject to laws intended to stamp out mis- and disinformation online.

It's not possible to parse out how many people were harmed due to medical misinformation propagated by the ABC. There are too many other factors at play - medical censorship, probable pharma fraud, and the fact that medical misinformation was disseminated from most official government and news sources throughout the pandemic.

However, it’s possible that celebrity Experts like Dr Norman Swan and his Vax Facts! co-stars played a role in harms caused by the misinformation that they espoused.

...