small increases
rare events
small proportion
small risk
the COVID vaccines cause a needle size hole to form on the arm and sometimes the administering nurse will be a little grouchy if they haven’t had their coffee yet ahhh
Excellent point, huge risk of both!
After looking at this study,
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X24001270?via%3Dihub
It’s basically saying that some incredibly rare conditions become slightly more common, but still incredibly rare.
And although not in the abstract, it’s worth noting that many of these are conditions that have links or potential links to COVID 19 infections.
Avoiding a COVID vaccine for the risks is like choosing to drive cross country instead of fly. Sure, you won’t get in a plane crash, but your risk went way up.
Better source, the actual study:
https://www.globalvaccinedatanetwork.org/node/981
I haven’t gone through it yet.
TL;DR? “More than 13.5 billion doses of Covid vaccines have been administered globally over the past three years, saving over 1 million lives in Europe alone. Still, a small proportion of people immunized were injured by the shots, stoking debate about their benefits versus harms.”
The article is light on the actual numbers of the 13 rare health conditions that were the focus of the study, but mention is made of 240 patients with “exercise intolerance, excessive fatigue, numbness and “brain fog” out of a study sample size of 99M.
I leave you to draw your own conclusions.
Bet they were already suffering from long covid and blamed the symptoms on the vaccine.
Pre-covid, I got sick following open heart surgery and ended up with a case of pericarditis.
It felt like I was being stabbed right in the goddamned heart.
Doc explained it can happen as a result of any infection and it would get better on its own. Had me taking ibuprofen for it.
So you’re saying simulating an infection via vaccine can also cause it? (shocked pikachu)
Not an antivax article exactly, but the title alone will create concerns. Whilst it mentions 1m saved lives, it doesn’t identify the significant number who avoided long term harms resulting from COVID infection. Finally, the article doesn’t even attempt to advise the tiny proportion of people who develop the adverse effects.
I used to teach medical statistics to post grad doctors in the UK. One of my examples was the drop in HRT use in the 90s with UK newspapers reporting a doubling in cancer risk. That was also a relative risk, with absolute risk remaining extremely low. Both the all cause mortality and the absolute measures for quality of life were such that more women suffered and died as a result of the headline scare story.
Yeah, looking at the article, the actual risk is hundreds of cases out of 99 million vaccinated individuals. That’s such a small amount I can’t even imagine how this is something I need to know or care about.
Archived link: https://archive.ph/rq3Xk
