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(UPDATED) Exclusive Summary: Covid-19 Vaccine Concerns

Dated: August 30, 2021 by Sharyl Attkisson 78 Comments

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  • Updated Aug. 30, 2021 with Functional Neurological Disorder
  • Updated Aug. 24, 2021 with waning immunity
  • Updated Aug. 17, 2021 with Bell's Palsy analysis, Hong Kong
  • Updated Aug. 16, 2021 with Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE) study
  • Updated Aug. 5, 2021 with heart disorders more common than CDC reported from database
  • Updated July 22, 2021 with EU warning about Guillain-Barre autoimmune paralysis after Johnson and Johnson vaccination.
  • Updated July 12, 2021 with new FDA warning of Guillain-Barre autoimmune paralysis cases after vaccination.
  • Updated July 12, 2021 with reports of Graves disease autoimmune disorder after vaccination.
  • Updated July 1, 2021 with reports of Guillain-Barre paralysis cases after vaccination.
  • Updated June 30, 2021 with news of first case of blood clot disorder in double-dose RNA vaccine.

If you find yourself confused about the mixed guidance when it comes to Covid-19 vaccines and safety concerns, you’re not alone.

While the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is marketing widespread use of the emergency-use vaccines in the U.S. for both old and young alike, many other countries are limiting Covid-19 vaccine use. Health officials around the world are giving varying advice on safety issues as Covid-19 vaccines are given to more people, and more information can be collected.

Read CDC’s information here.

Below are summaries of some of the concerns that have emerged or been raised by medical officials.

Click here to jump to: Summary by safety concern

Click here to jump to: Summary by vaccine

Click here to jump to: Summary by country

Click here to jump to: Additional reading and studies

Summary by safety concern

General

In the UK, some scientists analyzed adverse event reports and called upon the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency to stop the Covid-19 vaccines as “not safe for human use” due to reports of issues with bleeding/clotting, pain, immune system, neurological, loss of sight/hearing/smell/speech, and questions about impact in pregnant women.

A petition of scientists led by Linda Wastila, Professor, Pharmaceutical Health Services Research University of Maryland School of Pharmacy is calling for Covid-19 vaccines to be disapproved.

Fifty-seven authors from 17 countries have signed an endorsement urging that Covid-19 vaccinations be stopped unless new safety mechanisms are immediately implemented.

The authors include Dr. Peter McCullough, cardiologist and former Vice Chief of Medicine at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, who has called for a halt to vaccinating 30-year olds due to “no clinical benefit” and safety concerns. [McCullough is currently Senior Professor of Internal Medicine at the Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center.]

  • Covid-19 Natural Immunity: The Definitive Summary
  • Covid-19 Vaccine Concerns Summary
  • Covid-19 Vaccine Analysis: Common Adverse Events
  • Covid-19 Origins: Separating Rumor from Fact (WATCH)
  • Report a Possible Vaccine Adverse Event,

Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)

Researchers in the United Kingdom are studying two additional cases of Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) in women in their 30s after receiving Covid-19 vaccines.

FND is a neurological disorder involving malfunctioning of the nervous system and how the brain and body transmit signals. Symptoms can include limb weakness, paralysis, tremor, spasms, problems walking, speech problems, tingling, vision loss, seizures, fatigue, anxiety, chronic pain, memory symptoms, and blackouts.

An analysis of Covid-19 vaccine adverse events showed hundreds of thousands of reports of such symptoms.

  • Covid-19 Natural Immunity: The Definitive Summary
  • Covid-19 Vaccine Concerns Summary
  • Covid-19 Vaccine Analysis: Common Adverse Events
  • Covid-19 Origins: Separating Rumor from Fact (WATCH)
  • Report a Possible Vaccine Adverse Event,

In January, videos showing vaccine patients suffering such symptoms were treated by media outlets such as Wired as if they were fake news and "dangerous" misinformation.

In fact, the videos garnered the attention of scientists who investigated and concluded they were early warnings of what happens to some who get Covid-19 vaccines.

The newest cases are outlined in the journal NeuroPsychiatry and include:

  • A 38-year old woman who got her first dose of Pfizer's vaccine and quickly developed weakness around her ear, mouth, left arm and leg. She went to the ER the next day and was diagnosed with Bell's palsy or a transient ischemic attack. Problems continued months later, including memory issues, and she was diagnosed with FND.
  • A 36-year-old woman who got her second dose of Moderna and quickly noticed weakness in right hand and right leg limping. A day later she reported severe leg heaviness, fatigue, movement difficulties. After physical therapy her right-side weakness improved but she awoke weeks later with left-side weakness, tightness and heaviness in neck, difficulties with daily living, rapid muscle fatigue, dragging right foot, and tremor. She was diagnosed with FND.

Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE)

Updated (read more here). According to studies:

  • Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE) can make vaccinated people more susceptible to serious infection from the virus
  • "ADE may be a concern" for those who have been vaccinated for Covid-19
  • With ADE, after people get vaccinated for an initial virus, infection by a subsequent variant or strain of the virus can result in "increased viral replication and more severe disease, leading to major safety risks"
  • ADE can also "occur when neutralizing antibodies (which bind the virus and stop it from causing infection) are present at low enough levels that they don't protect against infection. Instead, they can form immune complexes with viral particles, which in turn leads to worse illness"
  • This concern was initially described by some scientists who were subsequently banned from media platforms that incorrectly claimed the scientists were disseminating disinformation

Waning immunity

Update Aug. 24, 2021: With evidence of seriously-waning immunity at the five- to six-month mark, CDC is now recommending a third "booster" shot. In highly-vaccinated Israel, recognition that vaccination likely does not confer protection beyond a few months, the country has reimagined its vaccine passports. They will only apply to people who have had three shots, and only be good for a six month period of time.

Guillain-Barre syndrome autoimmune paralysis

Update July 22, 2021: The European Union added Guillain-Barré syndrome, an autoimmune paralysis disorder, as a possible side effect from Johnson and Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine. 

Update July 12, 2021: The FDA added warnings about Guillain-Barre autoimmune paralysis, in which the immune system attacks the body's nerves, after Johnson and Johnson vaccine. According to reports, the cases have primarily been reported about two weeks after vaccination, mostly in men, and "any aged 50 and older."

Numerous case reports of Guillain-Barre syndrome paralysis after Covid-19 vaccine have prompted scientists to warn that "all physicians" should be "vigilant in recognizing Guillain-Barré syndrome in patients who have received the AstraZeneca vaccine... our observations suggest that this clinically distinct [Guillain-Barré syndrome] variant is more severe than usual and may require mechanical ventilation." In the U.K., scientists flagged "bifacial weakness and normal facial sensation in four men between 11 and 22 days after their first doses of the Astra-Zeneca vaccine." A case has also been reported in a patient who got the Pfizer vaccine. In India, there are reports of seven severe cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome 10 to 14 days after the first dose of AstraZeneca's vaccine. Six were women, all had facial paralysis, "all progressed to quadriplegia, and six required respiratory support. Patients' ages ranged from 43 to 70. Four developed other cranial neuropathies, including abducens palsy and trigeminal sensory nerve involvement."

Guillain-Barre syndrome has been reported after other vaccinations. The cause is believed to be damage to the immune system. The disorder can be extremely serious and can lead to total paralysis with dependence on artificial respiration. Even those who recover may have serious muscle wasting and may have to slowly teach the body to relearn most every normal task, such as walking. One in 20 cases is fatal.

Bell's Palsy

Updated Aug. 17: An analysis in Hong Kong shows risk of Bell's palsy is higher with CoronaVac (Sinovac Biotech) shot, a vaccine formulation not currently used in U.S. Bell's palsy is facial paralysis, muscle twitching, or weakness. It may include change in taste, and pain around the ear, increased sensitivity to sound known as hyperacusis. An adverse event analysis of U.S. reports shows 4,154 Bell’s Palsy after Covid-19 vaccination.

Heart issues

The Food and Drug Administration has added a new warning to Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines about risk of heart inflammation.

As of June of 2021, CDC said that more than 1,200 cases of heart inflammation (myocarditis or pericarditis) in young people had been reported after Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccination.

  • More than half were after the second dose.
  • Most of the injuries are in males under age 30.

Updated Aug. 4: A new, independent study of medical records found the incidences of myocarditis and pericarditis are more than five times more common than CDC reported.

The Israeli Ministry of Health announced it’s monitoring for heart inflammation after Pfizer's vaccine due to reports of problems.

Myocarditis and Other Cardiovascular Complications of the mRNA-Based COVID-19 Vaccines [Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna] in a number of patients are described in a scientific article:

  • Two patients with clinically suspected myocarditis
  • One patient with stress cardiomyopathy 
  • Two patients with pericarditis 

According to the research: 

  • The two patients with clinically suspected myocarditis were otherwise healthy young men who presented with acute substernal chest pressure and/or dyspnea after receiving the second dose of the vaccine and were found to have diffuse ST elevations on electrocardiogram (ECG), elevated cardiac biomarkers and inflammatory markers, and mildly reduced left ventricular (LV) function on echocardiography. Both patients met the modified Lake Louise Criteria for acute myocarditis by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. 
  • A case of stress cardiomyopathy occurred in a 60-year-old woman with known coronary artery disease (CAD) and previously normal LV function, who presented with new exertional symptoms, ECG changes, and apical akinesis following the second dose of the vaccine. 
  • The two patients with pericarditis who presented with chest pain, elevated inflammatory markers, and pericardial effusions after receiving the vaccine.

Blood clots

In late June, the first case of a blood clot disorder called "thrombosis with thrombocytopenia" after an RNA double-dose vaccine was been reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The case was that of a 65-year-old man who developed symptoms ten days after his second dose of the Moderna vaccine. Because the blood clot disorder was not previously warned about in the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, doctors treated the patient with heparin, the very drug that's not supposed to be used in post-vaccine patients suffering from the disorder because it could actually worsen the condition.

The Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 vaccine was temporarily removed from the market in the U.S. on April 16, 2021 while health officials studied reports of blood clot injuries. Among them was an 18-year old teen named Emma Burkey, who got sick about a week after the Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 vaccine and ended up having three brain surgeries related to blood clots and seizures.

Read: BBC radio news anchor dies of blood clots after Covid vaccine

The Johnson and Johnson vaccine was allowed back on the market April 27, 2021 with new warnings about the disorder.

Swedish health officials determined that people under age 65 should not get the Johnson and Johnson vaccine due to reports of blood clots.

An editorial published in the Journal of the American Medical Association recommended women under age 50 avoid the Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 vaccine due to concerns about blood clots. The recommendation discussed 12 case reports of a blood disorder known as cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) with thrombocytopenia following the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.

The AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine (not currently approved in the U.S.) has been linked to a dangerous disorder involving blood clots with low blood platelets. On April 7, 2021, the European Medicines Agency says it made the association after it analyzed 62 cases of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis and 24 cases of splanchnic vein thrombosis reported in the EU drug safety database (EudraVigilance) as of March 22, 2021; 18 of which were fatal.

An otherwise healthy South Florida doctor, Gregory Michael, died of a brain hemorrhage 16 days after he got Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine. Authorities concluded he died of a blood disorder called “immune thrombocytopenia” (ITP) that can prevent blood from clotting and cause internal bleeding. His wife said a blood test showed the level of his platelets to be at “zero.” She said before the shot, Dr. Michael had “absolutely no medical issues” and no underlying conditions. However, authorities later categorized his death as “natural.”

In Spain, the AstraZeneca shot has been restricted in people under age 60 due to reports of blood clots in younger people.

Bulgaria, Iceland and Norway have halted AstraZeneca shots. 

Austria, Italy and Romania banned certain "lots" or batches of the AstraZeneca shots.

Denmark stopped using the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine altogether as well as the Johnson and Johnson vaccine after investigations into blood clots, saying "the benefits of using the COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson do not outweigh the risk of causing the possible adverse effect in those who receive the vaccine."

The Italian government recently restricted AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to adults over age 60 after a teenager who got the shot died from a rare form of blood clotting. Eighteen-year-old Camilla Canepa died after getting vaccinated May 25, 2021. 

Several other European countries have also stopped giving the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to people below a certain age, usually ranging from 50 to 65. 

Graves disease autoimmune disorder

Studies in Mexico and Turkey link the autoimmune thyroid disorder Graves disease to Covid-19 vaccination in numerous female health care workers, including two who were breastfeeding. Pfizer-BioNTech was the vaccine given in Mexico. A Chinese vaccine was given in Turkey. Read more at the link below.

https://sharylattkisson.com/2021/07/two-studies-covid-19-vaccines-trigger-graves-disease-in-some-female-health-care-workers/

Frail, elderly

Health officials in Norway sounded the alarm after 23 patients died shortly after getting the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. They advise doctors to use caution in administering the shot to "very frail elderly patients.” 

After investigating 13 of the deaths, the Norwegian authorities concluded that common side effects from so-called "RNA" vaccines may be too much for a frail elderly person to handle, and may contribute to their death. 

“There is a possibility that these common adverse reactions, that are not dangerous in fitter, younger patients and are not unusual with vaccines, may aggravate underlying disease in the elderly,” said Steinar Madsen, medical director of the Norwegian Medicines Agency.

CDC said it is monitoring the impact of the vaccines on already-frail patients such as the chronically ill in nursing homes.

Several clusters of elderly patients in U.S. nursing homes died after Pfizer or Moderna Covid-19 vaccine. In one group, a number of the patients who died tested positive for Covid-19 after vaccination.

Pregnant women

Several Brazilian states suspended use of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine for pregnant women in May 2021 after a pregnant woman died after getting vaccinated. The decisions follow the recommendation of the country’s National Health Surveillance Agency, which recommended "immediate suspension" of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for pregnant women after results of vaccine adverse events monitoring in the country.

CDC says that with limited data on impact of Covid-19 vaccine in pregnant women and on their unborn children, the decision on whether to vaccinate while pregnant is an individual decision to be made between a woman and her physician.

Previously-infected

CDC falsely claimed that studies showed Covid-19 vaccines are effective for those who already had Covid-19. In fact, studies showed the opposite.

Manufacturing problems

On June 11, the European Union’s drug regulator announced it will not use batches of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine that were made at a Baltimore, Maryland-based plant around the time that cross-contamination manufacturing problems were reported at the facility.

Anonymous sources claimed that up to 60 million doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine had to be thrown out. But the FDA issued a news release saying that two batches from the Baltimore plant were safe to use. The FDA said “several other batches are not suitable for use, but additional batches are still under review.”

Lack of immunity

Israel announced that about half of the adults infected with Covid-19 during its outbreak in the June 2021 time period were fully vaccinated. The fully-vaccinated individuals had gotten Pfizer’s shots.

According to Epoch Times, in June 2021 nearly 4,000 fully vaccinated people in Massachusetts tested positive for Covid-19. On April 30, “the CDC reported that some 10,626 breakthrough cases were reported in 46 states and territories." Breakthrough cases are where fully vaccinated people still end up infected with Covid-19.

Scientists hoped that Covid-19 vaccines would be effective in variants of Covid-19, which are mutations that occur naturally with viruses and were always expected with Covid-19. However, the vaccine effectiveness against variants may be limited. CDC and vaccine makers are studying the medical landscape to find out more.

Other states, such as Maine, are noting Covid-19 deaths occurring in fully vaccinated people.

Summary by vaccine

Pfizer and Moderna

Waning Immunity

Update Aug. 24, 2021: With evidence of seriously-waning immunity at the five- to six-month mark, CDC is now recommending a third "booster" shot. In highly-vaccinated Israel, recognition that vaccination likely does not confer protection beyond a few months, the country has reimagined its vaccine passports. They will only apply to people who have had three shots, and only be good for a six month period of time.

Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)

Updated Aug. 30, 2021: Researchers in the United Kingdom are studying two additional cases of Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) in women in their 30s after receiving Covid-19 vaccines.

FND is a neurological disorder involving malfunctioning of the nervous system and how the brain and body transmit signals. Symptoms can include limb weakness, paralysis, tremor, spasms, problems walking, speech problems, tingling, vision loss, seizures, fatigue, anxiety, chronic pain, memory symptoms, and blackouts.

An analysis of Covid-19 vaccine adverse events showed hundreds of thousands of reports of such symptoms.

In January, videos showing vaccine patients suffering such symptoms were treated by media outlets such as Wired as if they were fake news and "dangerous" misinformation.

In fact, the videos garnered the attention of scientists who investigated and concluded they were early warnings of what happens to some who get Covid-19 vaccines.

The newest cases are outlined in the journal Neurology and include:

  • A 38-year old woman who got her first dose of Pfizer's vaccine and quickly developed weakness around her ear, mouth, left arm and leg. She went to the ER the next day and was diagnosed with Bell's palsy or a transient ischemic attack. Problems continued months later, including memory issues, and she was diagnosed with FND.
  • A 36-year-old woman who got her second dose of Moderna and quickly noticed weakness in right hand and right leg limping. A day later she reported severe leg heaviness, fatigue, movement difficulties. After physical therapy her right-side weakness improved but she awoke weeks later with left-side weakness, tightness and heaviness in neck, difficulties with daily living, rapid muscle fatigue, dragging right foot, and tremor. She was diagnosed with FND.

Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE)

Updated (read more here). According to studies:

  • Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE) can make vaccinated people more susceptible to serious infection from the virus
  • "ADE may be a concern" for those who have been vaccinated for Covid-19
  • With ADE, after people get vaccinated for an initial virus, infection by a subsequent variant or strain of the virus can result in "increased viral replication and more severe disease, leading to major safety risks"
  • ADE can also "occur when neutralizing antibodies (which bind the virus and stop it from causing infection) are present at low enough levels that they don't protect against infection. Instead, they can form immune complexes with viral particles, which in turn leads to worse illness"
  • This concern was initially described by some scientists who were subsequently banned from media platforms that incorrectly claimed the scientists were disseminating disinformation

Numerous case reports of Guillain-Barre syndrome paralysis after Covid-19 vaccine have prompted scientists to warn that "all physicians" should be "vigilant in recognizing Guillain-Barré syndrome in patients who have received the AstraZeneca vaccine... our observations suggest that this clinically distinct [Guillain-Barré syndrome] variant is more severe than usual and may require mechanical ventilation." In the U.K., scientists flagged "bifacial weakness and normal facial sensation in four men between 11 and 22 days after their first doses of the Astra-Zeneca vaccine." A case has also been reported in a patient who got the Pfizer vaccine. In India, there are reports of seven severe cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome 10 to 14 days after the first dose of AstraZeneca's vaccine. Six were women, all had facial paralysis, "all progressed to quadriplegia, and six required respiratory support. Patients' ages ranged from 43 to 70. Four developed other cranial neuropathies, including abducens palsy and trigeminal sensory nerve involvement."

Guillain-Barre syndrome has been reported after other vaccinations. The cause is believed to be damage to the immune system. The disorder can be extremely serious and can lead to total paralysis with dependence on artificial respiration. Even those who recover may have serious muscle wasting and may have to slowly teach the body to relearn most every normal task, such as walking. One in 20 cases is fatal.

In late June, the first case of a blood clot disorder called "thrombosis with thrombocytopenia" after an RNA double-dose vaccine was been reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The case was that of a 65-year-old man who developed symptoms ten days after his second dose of the Moderna vaccine. Because the blood clot disorder was not previously warned about in the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, doctors treated the patient with heparin, the very drug that's not supposed to be used in post-vaccine patients suffering from the disorder because it could actually worsen the condition.

The Food and Drug Administration has added a new warning to Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines about risk of heart inflammation.

As of June of 2021, CDC said that more than 1,200 cases of heart inflammation (myocarditis of pericarditis) in young people had been reported after Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccination.

  • More than half were after the second dose.
  • Most of the injuries are in males under age 30.

Updated Aug. 4: A new, independent study of medical records found the incidences of myocarditis and pericarditis are more than five times more common than CDC reported.

The Israeli Ministry of Health announced it’s monitoring for heart inflammation after Pfizer's vaccine due to reports of problems.

Myocarditis and Other Cardiovascular Complications of the mRNA-Based COVID-19 Vaccines [Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna] in a number of patients are described in a scientific article:

  • Two patients with clinically suspected myocarditis
  • One patient with stress cardiomyopathy 
  • Two patients with pericarditis 

According to the research: 

  • The two patients with clinically suspected myocarditis were otherwise healthy young men who presented with acute substernal chest pressure and/or dyspnea after receiving the second dose of the vaccine and were found to have diffuse ST elevations on electrocardiogram (ECG), elevated cardiac biomarkers and inflammatory markers, and mildly reduced left ventricular (LV) function on echocardiography. Both patients met the modified Lake Louise Criteria for acute myocarditis by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. 
  • A case of stress cardiomyopathy occurred in a 60-year-old woman with known coronary artery disease (CAD) and previously normal LV function, who presented with new exertional symptoms, ECG changes, and apical akinesis following the second dose of the vaccine. 
  • The two patients with pericarditis who presented with chest pain, elevated inflammatory markers, and pericardial effusions after receiving the vaccine.

An otherwise healthy South Florida doctor, Gregory Michael, died of a brain hemorrhage 16 days after he got Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine. Authorities concluded he died of a blood disorder called “immune thrombocytopenia” (ITP) that can prevent blood from clotting and cause internal bleeding. His wife said a blood test showed the level of his platelets to be at “zero.” She said before the shot, Dr. Michael had “absolutely no medical issues” and no underlying conditions. However, authorities later categorized his death as “natural.”

Health officials in Norway sounded the alarm after 23 patients died shortly after receiving the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. They advise doctors to use caution in administering the shot to "very frail elderly patients.” 

After investigating 13 of the deaths, the Norwegian authorities concluded that common side effects from so-called "RNA" vaccines may be too much for a frail elderly person to handle, and may contribute to their death. 

“There is a possibility that these common adverse reactions, that are not dangerous in fitter, younger patients and are not unusual with vaccines, may aggravate underlying disease in the elderly,” said Steinar Madsen, medical director of the Norwegian Medicines Agency.

CDC said it is monitoring the impact of the vaccines on already-frail patients such as the chronically ill in nursing homes.

Several clusters of elderly patients in U.S. nursing homes died after Pfizer or Moderna Covid-19 vaccine. In one group, a number of the patients who died tested positive for Covid-19 after vaccination.

Israel announced that about half of the adults infected with Covid-19 during its outbreak in the June 2021 time period were fully vaccinated. The fully-vaccinated individuals had gotten Pfizer’s shots.

Studies in Mexico and Turkey link the autoimmune thyroid disorder Graves disease to Covid-19 vaccination in numerous female health care workers, including two who were breastfeeding. Pfizer-BioNTech was the vaccine given in Mexico. A Chinese vaccine was given in Turkey. Read more at the link here.

Johnson and Johnson

Update July 22, 2021: The European Union added Guillain-Barré syndrome, an autoimmune paralysis disorder, as a possible side effect from Johnson and Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine. 

Update July 12, 2021: The FDA added warnings about Guillain-Barre autoimmune paralysis, in which the immune system attacks the body's nerves, after Johnson and Johnson vaccine. According to reports, the cases have primarily been reported about two weeks after vaccination, mostly in men, and "any aged 50 and older."

The Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 vaccine was temporarily removed from the market in the U.S. on April 16, 2021 while health officials studied reports of blood clot injuries. 

Updated Aug. 4: A new, independent study of medical records found the incidences of myocarditis and pericarditis are more than five times more common than CDC reported.

The Johnson and Johnson vaccine was allowed back on the market April 27, 2021 with new warnings about the disorder.

Swedish health officials determined that people under age 65 should not get the Johnson and Johnson vaccine due to reports of blood clots.

An editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association recommended women under age 50 avoid the Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 vaccine due to concerns about blood clots: a blood disorder known as cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) with thrombocytopenia following the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.

On June 11, the European Union’s drug regulator announced it will not use batches of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine that were made at a Baltimore, Maryland-based plant around the time that cross-contamination manufacturing problems were reported at the facility.

Anonymous sources claimed that up to 60 million doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine had to be thrown out. But the FDA issued a news release saying that two batches from the Baltimore plant were safe to use. The FDA said “several other batches are not suitable for use, but additional batches are still under review.”

Denmark  banned the Johnson and Johnson vaccine altogether saying "the benefits of using the COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson do not outweigh the risk of causing the possible adverse effect in those who receive the vaccine”.

AstraZeneca (not given in the U.S.)

The AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has been linked to a dangerous disorder involving blood clots with low blood platelets. 

On April 7, 2021, the European Medicines Agency says it made the association after it analyzed 62 cases of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis and 24 cases of splanchnic vein thrombosis reported in the EU drug safety database (EudraVigilance) as of March 22, 2021, 18 of which were fatal.

In Spain, the AstraZeneca shot has been restricted in people under age 60 due to reports of blood clots in younger people.

Bulgaria, Iceland and Norway have halted AstraZeneca shots. 

Austria, Italy and Romania banned certain "lots" or batches of the AstraZeneca shots.

Denmark stopped using the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine altogether after investigations into blood clots.

The Italian government recently restricted AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to adults over age 60 after a teenager who got the shot died from a rare form of blood clotting. Eighteen-year-old Camilla Canepa died after getting vaccinated May 25, 2021. 

Several other European countries have also stopped giving the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to people below a certain age, usually ranging from 50 to 65. 

Several Brazilian states suspended use of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine for pregnant women in May 2021 after a pregnant woman died after getting vaccinated. The decisions follow the recommendation of the country’s National Health Surveillance Agency, which recommended "immediate suspension" of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for pregnant women after results of vaccine adverse events monitoring in the country.

Numerous case reports of Guillain-Barre syndrome paralysis after Covid-19 vaccine have prompted scientists to warn that "all physicians" should be "vigilant in recognizing Guillain-Barré syndrome in patients who have received the AstraZeneca vaccine... our observations suggest that this clinically distinct [Guillain-Barré syndrome] variant is more severe than usual and may require mechanical ventilation." In the U.K., scientists flagged "bifacial weakness and normal facial sensation in four men between 11 and 22 days after their first doses of the Astra-Zeneca vaccine." A case has also been reported in a patient who got the Pfizer vaccine. In India, there are reports of seven severe cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome 10 to 14 days after the first dose of AstraZeneca's vaccine. Six were women, all had facial paralysis, "all progressed to quadriplegia, and six required respiratory support. Patients' ages ranged from 43 to 70. Four developed other cranial neuropathies, including abducens palsy and trigeminal sensory nerve involvement."

Guillain-Barre syndrome has been reported after other vaccinations. The cause is believed to be damage to the immune system. The disorder can be extremely serious and can lead to total paralysis with dependence on artificial respiration. Even those who recover may have serious muscle wasting and may have to slowly teach the body to relearn most every normal task, such as walking. One in 20 cases is fatal.

Summary by country

Austria: Banned certain "lots" or batches of AstraZeneca shots.

Brazil: Several Brazilian states suspended use of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine for pregnant women in May 2021 after a pregnant woman died after getting vaccinated. The decisions follow the recommendation of the country’s National Health Surveillance Agency, which recommended "immediate suspension" of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for pregnant women after results of vaccine adverse events monitoring in the country.

Bulgaria: Halted AstraZeneca shots. 

Denmark: stopped using the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine and the Johnson and Johnson vaccine altogether after investigations into blood clots.

European Union: July 22, 2021: The European Union added Guillain-Barré syndrome, an autoimmune paralysis disorder, as a possible side effect from Johnson and Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine. 

The AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine (not currently approved in the U.S.) has been linked to a dangerous disorder involving blood clots with low blood platelets. On April 7, 2021, the European Medicines Agency says it made the association after it analyzed 62 cases of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis and 24 cases of splanchnic vein thrombosis reported in the EU drug safety database (EudraVigilance) as of March 22, 2021, 18 of which were fatal.

On June 11, the European Union’s drug regulator announced it will not use batches of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine that were made at a Baltimore, Maryland-based plant around the time that cross-contamination manufacturing problems were reported at the facility.

Several European countries have stopped giving the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to people below a certain age, usually ranging from 50 to 65. 

Numerous case reports of Guillain-Barre syndrome paralysis after Covid-19 vaccine have prompted scientists to warn that "all physicians" should be "vigilant in recognizing Guillain-Barré syndrome in patients who have received the AstraZeneca vaccine... our observations suggest that this clinically distinct [Guillain-Barré syndrome] variant is more severe than usual and may require mechanical ventilation." In the U.K., scientists flagged "bifacial weakness and normal facial sensation in four men between 11 and 22 days after their first doses of the Astra-Zeneca vaccine." A case has also been reported in a patient who got the Pfizer vaccine. In India, there are reports of seven severe cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome 10 to 14 days after the first dose of AstraZeneca's vaccine. Six were women, all had facial paralysis, "all progressed to quadriplegia, and six required respiratory support. Patients' ages ranged from 43 to 70. Four developed other cranial neuropathies, including abducens palsy and trigeminal sensory nerve involvement."

Guillain-Barre syndrome has been reported after other vaccinations. The cause is believed to be damage to the immune system. The disorder can be extremely serious and can lead to total paralysis with dependence on artificial respiration. Even those who recover may have serious muscle wasting and may have to slowly teach the body to relearn most every normal task, such as walking. One in 20 cases is fatal.

Hong-Kong: Updated Aug. 17: An analysis in Hong Kong shows risk of Bell's palsy is higher with CoronaVac (Sinovac Biotech) shot, a vaccine formulation not currently used in U.S. Bell's palsy is facial paralysis, muscle twitching, or weakness. It may include change in taste, and pain around the ear, increased sensitivity to sound known as hyperacusis. An adverse event analysis of U.S. reports shows 4,154 Bell’s Palsy after Covid-19 vaccination.

Iceland: Has halted AstraZeneca shots. 

India: Numerous case reports of Guillain-Barre syndrome paralysis after Covid-19 vaccine have prompted scientists to warn that "all physicians" should be "vigilant in recognizing Guillain-Barré syndrome in patients who have received the AstraZeneca vaccine... our observations suggest that this clinically distinct [Guillain-Barré syndrome] variant is more severe than usual and may require mechanical ventilation." In the U.K., scientists flagged "bifacial weakness and normal facial sensation in four men between 11 and 22 days after their first doses of the Astra-Zeneca vaccine." A case has also been reported in a patient who got the Pfizer vaccine. In India, there are reports of seven severe cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome 10 to 14 days after the first dose of AstraZeneca's vaccine. Six were women, all had facial paralysis, "all progressed to quadriplegia, and six required respiratory support. Patients' ages ranged from 43 to 70. Four developed other cranial neuropathies, including abducens palsy and trigeminal sensory nerve involvement."

Guillain-Barre syndrome has been reported after other vaccinations. The cause is believed to be damage to the immune system. The disorder can be extremely serious and can lead to total paralysis with dependence on artificial respiration. Even those who recover may have serious muscle wasting and may have to slowly teach the body to relearn most every normal task, such as walking. One in 20 cases is fatal.

Israel: The Israeli Ministry of Health announced it’s monitoring for heart inflammation after Pfizer's vaccine due to reports of problems.

Announced that about half of the adults infected with Covid-19 during its outbreak in the June 2021 time period were fully vaccinated. The fully-vaccinated individuals had gotten Pfizer’s shots.

Update Aug. 24, 2021: In highly-vaccinated Israel, recognition that vaccination likely does not confer protection beyond a few months, the country has reimagined its vaccine passports. They will only apply to people who have had three shots, and only be good for a six month period of time.

Italy: Restricted AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to adults over age 60 after a teenager who got the shot died from a rare form of blood clotting. Eighteen-year-old Camilla Canepa died after getting vaccinated May 25, 2021. 

Banned certain "lots" or batches of the AstraZeneca shots.

Mexico: Studies in Mexico and Turkey link the autoimmune thyroid disorder Graves disease to Covid-19 vaccination in numerous female health care workers, including two who were breastfeeding. Pfizer-BioNTech was the vaccine given in Mexico. A Chinese vaccine was given in Turkey. Read more at the link here.

Norway: Halted AstraZeneca shots. Cautioned use of the vaccine in "very frail elderly patients” after nearly two dozen deaths. 

“There is a possibility that these common adverse reactions, that are not dangerous in fitter, younger patients and are not unusual with vaccines, may aggravate underlying disease in the elderly,” said Steinar Madsen, medical director of the Norwegian Medicines Agency.

Romania: Banned certain "lots" or batches of the AstraZeneca shots.

Spain: The AstraZeneca shot has been restricted in people under age 60 due to reports of blood clots in younger people.

Sweden: Health officials determined that people under age 65 should not get the Johnson and Johnson vaccine due to reports of blood clots.

Turkey: Studies in Mexico and Turkey link the autoimmune thyroid disorder Graves disease to Covid-19 vaccination in numerous female health care workers, including two who were breastfeeding. Pfizer-BioNTech was the vaccine given in Mexico. A Chinese vaccine was given in Turkey. Read more at the link here.

UK: Some scientists analyzed adverse event reports and called upon the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to stop the Covid-19 vaccines as “not safe for human use” due to reports of issues with bleeding/clotting, pain, immune system, neurological, loss of sight/hearing/smell speech, and questions about impact in pregnant women.

Updated: Researchers in the United Kingdom are studying two additional cases of Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) in women in their 30s after receiving Covid-19 vaccines.

FND is a neurological disorder involving malfunctioning of the nervous system and how the brain and body transmit signals. Symptoms can include limb weakness, paralysis, tremor, spasms, problems walking, speech problems, tingling, vision loss, seizures, fatigue, anxiety, chronic pain, memory symptoms, and blackouts.

An analysis of Covid-19 vaccine adverse events showed hundreds of thousands of reports of such symptoms.

In January, videos showing vaccine patients suffering such symptoms were treated by media outlets such as Wired as if they were fake news and "dangerous" misinformation.

In fact, the videos garnered the attention of scientists who investigated and concluded they were early warnings of what happens to some who get Covid-19 vaccines.

The newest cases are outlined in the journal Neurology and include:

  • A 38-year old woman who got her first dose of Pfizer's vaccine and quickly developed weakness around her ear, mouth, left arm and leg. She went to the ER the next day and was diagnosed with Bell's palsy or a transient ischemic attack. Problems continued months later, including memory issues, and she was diagnosed with FND.
  • A 36-year-old woman who got her second dose of Moderna and quickly noticed weakness in right hand and right leg limping. A day later she reported severe leg heaviness, fatigue, movement difficulties. After physical therapy her right-side weakness improved but she awoke weeks later with left-side weakness, tightness and heaviness in neck, difficulties with daily living, rapid muscle fatigue, dragging right foot, and tremor. She was diagnosed with FND.

US: Update Aug. 24: Update Aug. 24, 2021: With evidence of seriously-waning immunity at the five- to six-month mark, CDC is now recommending a third "booster" shot. In highly-vaccinated Israel, recognition that vaccination likely does not confer protection beyond a few months, the country has reimagined its vaccine passports. They will only apply to people who have had three shots, and only be good for a six month period of time.

Update Aug. 16:

Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE) (read more here). According to studies:

  • Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE) can make vaccinated people more susceptible to serious infection from the virus
  • "ADE may be a concern" for those who have been vaccinated for Covid-19
  • With ADE, after people get vaccinated for an initial virus, infection by a subsequent variant or strain of the virus can result in "increased viral replication and more severe disease, leading to major safety risks"
  • ADE can also "occur when neutralizing antibodies (which bind the virus and stop it from causing infection) are present at low enough levels that they don't protect against infection. Instead, they can form immune complexes with viral particles, which in turn leads to worse illness"
  • This concern was initially described by some scientists who were subsequently banned from media platforms that incorrectly claimed the scientists were disseminating disinformation

Update Aug. 4, 2021: A new, independent study of medical records found the incidences of myocarditis and pericarditis are more than five times more common than CDC reported.

Update July 12, 2021: The FDA added warnings about Guillain-Barre autoimmune paralysis, in which the immune system attacks the body's nerves, after Johnson and Johnson vaccine. According to reports, the cases have primarily been reported about two weeks after vaccination, mostly in men, and "any aged 50 and older."

In late June, the first case of a blood clot disorder called "thrombosis with thrombocytopenia" after an RNA double-dose vaccine was been reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The case was that of a 65-year-old man who developed symptoms ten days after his second dose of the Moderna vaccine. Because the blood clot disorder was not previously warned about in the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, doctors treated the patient with heparin, the very drug that's not supposed to be used in post-vaccine patients suffering from the disorder because it could actually worsen the condition.

Dr. Peter McCullough, cardiologist and Vice Chief of Medicine at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, has called for a halt to vaccinating 30-year olds due to “no clinical benefit” and safety concerns.

A petition of scientists led by Linda Wastila, Professor, Pharmaceutical Health Services Research University of Maryland School of Pharmacy is calling for Covid-19 vaccines to be disapproved.

The Food and Drug Administration has added a new warning to Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines about risk of heart inflammation.

As of June of 2021, CDC said that more than 1,200 cases of heart inflammation (myocarditis of pericarditis) in young people had been reported after Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccination.

  • More than half were after the second dose.
  • Most of the injuries are in males under age 30.

Myocarditis and Other Cardiovascular Complications of the mRNA-Based COVID-19 Vaccines [Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna] in a number of patients are described in a scientific article:

  • Two patients with clinically suspected myocarditis
  • One patient with stress cardiomyopathy 
  • Two patients with pericarditis 

According to the research: 

  • The two patients with clinically suspected myocarditis were otherwise healthy young men who presented with acute substernal chest pressure and/or dyspnea after receiving the second dose of the vaccine and were found to have diffuse ST elevations on electrocardiogram (ECG), elevated cardiac biomarkers and inflammatory markers, and mildly reduced left ventricular (LV) function on echocardiography. Both patients met the modified Lake Louise Criteria for acute myocarditis by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. 
  • A case of stress cardiomyopathy occurred in a 60-year-old woman with known coronary artery disease (CAD) and previously normal LV function, who presented with new exertional symptoms, ECG changes, and apical akinesis following the second dose of the vaccine. 
  • The two patients with pericarditis who presented with chest pain, elevated inflammatory markers, and pericardial effusions after receiving the vaccine.

The Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 vaccine was temporarily removed from the market in the U.S. on April 16, 2021 while health officials studied reports of blood clot injuries. Among them was an 18-year old teen named Emma Burkey, who got sick about a week after the Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 vaccine and ended up having three brain surgeries related to blood clots and seizures.

The Johnson and Johnson vaccine was allowed back on the market April 27, 2021 with new warnings about the disorder.

An editorial published in the Journal of the American Medical Association recommended women under age 50 avoid the Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 vaccine due to concerns about blood clots. The recommendation discussed 12 case reports of a blood disorder known as cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) with thrombocytopenia following the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.

An otherwise healthy South Florida doctor, Gregory Michael, died of a brain hemorrhage 16 days after he got Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine. Authorities concluded he died of a blood disorder called “immune thrombocytopenia” (ITP) that can prevent blood from clotting and cause internal bleeding. His wife said a blood test showed the level of his platelets to be at “zero.” She said before the shot, Dr. Michael had “absolutely no medical issues” and no underlying conditions. However, authorities later categorized his death as “natural.”

Several clusters of elderly patients in U.S. nursing homes died after Pfizer or Moderna Covid-19 vaccine. In one group, a number of the patients who died tested positive for Covid-19 after vaccination.

CDC falsely claimed that studies showed Covid-19 vaccines are effective for those who already had Covid-19. In fact, studies showed the opposite.

Anonymous sources claimed that up to 60 million doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine had to be thrown out. But the FDA issued a news release saying that two batches from the Baltimore plant were safe to use. The FDA said “several other batches are not suitable for use, but additional batches are still under review.”

According to Epoch Times, in June 2021 nearly 4,000 fully vaccinated people in Massachusetts tested positive for Covid-19. On April 30, “the CDC reported that some 10,626 breakthrough cases were reported in 46 states and territories." Breakthrough cases are where fully vaccinated people still end up infected with Covid-19.

Scientists hoped that Covid-19 vaccines would be effective in variants of Covid-19, which are mutations that occur naturally with viruses and were always expected with Covid-19. However, the vaccine effectiveness against variants may be limited. CDC and vaccine makers are studying the medical landscape to find out more.

Other states, such as Maine, are noting Covid-19 deaths occurring in fully vaccinated people.

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  1. Jim33707 says

    June 28, 2021 at 9:11 am

    Thank you for the public service. The CDC/NIH gives us the spin that best protects their rice bowls.

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  2. Nate Klingenstein says

    June 30, 2021 at 2:03 am

    I concur with most of your points, but I would add a big one about immunological imprinting -- the difficulty in administering a revised vaccine for a mutated pathogen that the body thinks it already recognizes. You can find plenty in the literature about that.

    I'd also mention ADE, which has been documented to occur in COVID-19.

    Finally, the mRNA vaccines do offer a substantial boost in SARS-CoV-2 immunological metrics to convalescents when administered as a single dose, so I don't think it's fair to say that vaccines aren't effective for convalescents. It may be fair to say they're unnecessary.

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    • Marc Authier says

      July 13, 2021 at 11:45 am

      Well they are not safe, untested, dangerous and experimental. So you think people were informed by the criminal MDs that these vaccines are not even approved by the criminals from the FDA, CDC and other health agencies, It is truly a crime against humanity well defined by the Nurenburg Code and the Helsinki Convention. Here are two stories of mine. First my stupid friend I warned not to take it. But he is a TV addict and simple minded. So brainwash worked wonderfully. He ended up after the first shot by Pfizer with a blood clot in the brain and paralysis. Then there is my stupid niece in Israel, We warned her repeatedly with tons of researches and comments done by Dr Michael Yeadon an ex director of Pfizer (and other viroligists) who warned about the dangers of these experimental vaccines. She was pregnant. So guess what happened next. A few days later she lost the baby but rest assured the criminal israeli MDs said to her it is not related.. In both case the MDs did not and will not report the events as a damage resulting from the vaccine., Our politicians are truly criminals to go along
      with what I consider criminals against humanity. All this for a disease that barely kills the ones that get the virus, I truly think we are dealing here with something else than medicine. These people are almost doing it on purpose, Maybe they are.

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      • Freedom Fighter says

        July 15, 2021 at 1:18 am

        DePopulation !!!
        I Personally know of 4 DEAD post vax, 4 young men heart attacks ( ages 19, 20, 22, 23) , 4 miscarriages (4 months, 6 months, 2- 7 month Babies) one blind 19 year old !!!
        This is POISON!
        An experimental bio-weapon- just wait till Infertility rates shoot through the roof!!!
        Crimes against Humanity!

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      • Blue says

        July 18, 2021 at 4:13 am

        MARC A., The good news is YOU can report the adverse reactions. You DO NOT NEED an md to do it.
        Adverse reaction reports to covid “vaccine”, as of July 7, 2021
        9,048 DEATHS
        26,818 HOSPITALIZATIONS
        56,970 URGENT CARE
        80,269 OFFICE VISITS
        2,152 ANAPHYLAXIS
        2,486 BELL'S PALSY
        985 Miscarriages
        3,324 Heart Attacks
        2,200 Myocarditis/Pericarditis
        7,463 Disabled
        2,226Thrombocytopenia/
        Low Platelet
        7,823 Life Threatening
        19,105 Severe Allergic Reaction
        5,118 Tinnitus
        TOTAL: 220,869 Adverse reactions and deaths, INCLUDING almost 1000 PRE-BORN children miscarried, and many of their mothers died as well due to covid “vaccine” injections.

        Adverse reaction reports to covid “vaccine”, as of July 9, 2021
        10,991 DEATHS
        30,781 HOSPITALIZATIONS
        59,402 URGENT CARE
        82,535 OFFICE VISITS
        2,487 ANAPHYLAXIS
        2,885 BELL'S PALSY
        1,073 Miscarriages
        3,906 Heart Attacks
        2,466 Myocarditis/Pericarditis
        9,274 Disabled
        2,552Thrombocytopenia/
        Low Platelet
        8,832 Life Threatening
        19,814 Severe Allergic Reaction
        5,422 Tinnitus
        TOTAL: 264,828 Adverse reactions and deaths, INCLUDING almost 1100 PRE-BORN children miscarried, and many of their mothers died as well due to covid “vaccine” injections.
        This is 43,214 more adverse reactions than two days ago.”

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        • rooare says

          July 24, 2021 at 4:35 pm

          There's an article at WND news source 7/20/21 reporting on a Federal lawsuit in Alabama alleging a massive gov coverup of death due to the 3 COVID vaccines. The source for the lawsuit is a gov insider with access to gov computers who is under Federal whistleblower protection and sworn under oath about this coverup, the alleged vaccine death toll is 45,000 and counting.

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        • Professor g says

          July 27, 2021 at 4:10 pm

          Can you send me link to this info. I want to track info.

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  3. Nate Klingenstein says

    June 30, 2021 at 2:08 am

    Also, appended separately since I'm not sure URL's will get past your spam filter, there is collateral damage to the innate immune system that results from the mRNA vaccines.

    https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.03.21256520v1.full-text

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  4. Marty Kruse says

    June 30, 2021 at 4:25 am

    Thank you for your courage to speak truth and great detailed reporting!

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  5. Chuck in Richmond says

    June 30, 2021 at 12:27 pm

    Private companies are required by law to announce the side effects of their medicines, both verbally and in writing, in their advertising. Public agencies promoting getting shots have not followed the same rules. Silence on the negatives. Thanks for countering their omissions.

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  6. Angela Rogereson says

    July 1, 2021 at 4:52 pm

    Thank you for presenting the news in such an unbiased fashion. You're doing great work!

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  7. Gail Finke says

    July 3, 2021 at 12:03 pm

    My father-in-law contracted Guillain-Barre Syndrome in March less than two weeks after his second Moderna shot. He went to the ER after collapsing in his yard - he couldn't stand feet. They tested him for a stroke (negative) and sent him home, but he went back after it got worse. The doctor ordered a GBS test after hearing he'd recently had the vaccine, and it was positive. He was just found free of neurological symptoms this week but still has months of recovery; he was partially paralyzed for weeks and spent four weeks total in a hospital or rehab facility; he has lost 25 pounds and is much more frail; he was unable to do any fine motions with his hands for weeks; had balance issues; had medication issues; suffered all kinds of pain at night and was unable to sleep for weeks and still requires medication to help. And you know what? No one cares, because "at least he didn't get Covid!" He is in his 80s but was extremely active -- driving, doing vigorous yard work including digging up bushes; swimming every day. His active life may now be effectively over. It makes me so angry. GBS is extremely rare, and only a minority of those extremely rare people get it without first being sick with a virus. He wasn't sick with anything.

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    • Mary Ann Johnston says

      July 15, 2021 at 5:35 pm

      Gail, sorry to hear of your father-in-laws adverse reaction. I can sympathize with the family. My father in 1982 was a healthy 52yr old w/no comorbidities and had accumulated a year in hours of sick leave as a civilian at Luke AFB. It was also March that he & my mother went for the flu shot. 2 weeks later they thought he had a heart attack, then thought stroke, then MS until a woman neurologist finally diagnosed him w/GBS. He laid in ICU totally paralyzed on a respirator 3 days short of a year. It really isn't as rare as they want to claim. I worked with a gal who GBS and a nurse friend said when she first started her nursing career her first 5 patients had GBS. I keep asking so am I predisposed? Why would I want to take this experimental non FDA approved vaccine when I know I there is treatment for a virus that I know I will survive. My husband as had Bells-Palsy. Is he predisposed? As this is another neurological event from an experimental vaccine. There can not be a one size fits all and there must be Informed Consent. Blessings to your father in law.

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      • Jaye says

        July 19, 2021 at 1:07 am

        I got diplopia (double vision) - another cranial nerve affliction like Bell's Palsy -- 10 days after my second pneumococcal shot - it took three months to go away. So yes, i ask too - does this make me pre-disposed for possible "covid" vaccine side effects?

        Watching and waiting before my hand gets forced - by travel requirements - which will be the only way I will even consider this experimental vaccine for a 99% recovery flu.

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  8. Darnell says

    July 6, 2021 at 7:56 pm

    The links on this page (https://sharylattkisson.com/2021/07/exclusive-summary-covid-19-vaccine-concerns/) for "frail elderly" do not go to a working page. Please fix this.

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  9. Antonio Chaves says

    July 9, 2021 at 12:49 pm

    Vaccine-related deaths are 5X higher than what was reported on VAERS. Here are instructions for accessing this concealed data from the CDC: https://rumble.com/vjav3j-navigating-the-cdcs-weekly-provisional-counts-of-death-website.html

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    • rooare says

      July 24, 2021 at 4:39 pm

      There's a Federal lawsuit in Alabama on this reported by WND news source 7/20/21.

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  10. Antonio Chaves says

    July 12, 2021 at 6:46 pm

    Can you ask the CDC why "unclassified" deaths surged to over 30,000 after COVID vaccines were introduced in December? Here are video instructions for getting this data from the CDC's website: https://rumble.com/vjav3j-navigating-the-cdcs-weekly-provisional-counts-of-death-website.html

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  11. Marcia says

    July 12, 2021 at 8:21 pm

    I didn’t see Canada on the adverse effects of the vaccines I don’t want to get any of them. I also have thyroid disease and I look for natural remedies for my problem

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  12. Rick Solman says

    July 13, 2021 at 12:49 pm

    It is important that adverse reactions to the Covid vaccines be reported. This news is being repressed by the main-stream media. It is beyond belief that the US government gave approval for mRNA gene therapy on a mass scale without long-term testing. This is a technology that has never been employed in humans and it will be a generation before we know the full extent of the adverse consequences. The U.S. VAERS is recording significant numbers of deaths with potential links to Covid 19 treatments. No one talks about it. No one will ever admit that the decision to authorize this treatment was a mistake.

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  13. mjc227 says

    July 13, 2021 at 2:15 pm

    Why is the regime pushing this on children who are not affected by the kung flu? Why are they pushing this on people that have recovered from the kung flu? There are lots of questions and every day that goes by shows lots of good reasons not to get the mRNA shot but I can't any good reason to get it particularly after reading this.

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    • Martha Owens says

      July 15, 2021 at 11:57 pm

      The fact sheet tell you after you have be advised by the jabber on the risk you have a right to refuse the shot. It's not mandated, you volunteer to take your kids to them and allow them to jab your kids. Just say NO!

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  14. Someday Girl says

    July 13, 2021 at 11:56 pm

    What about vaccine alternatives? What about the use of HCQ and Vitamin D?
    Also Ivermectin and Dr. Pierre Kory’s MATH Protocol? Ivermectin is cheaper, safer, and effective. According to Dr. Peter McCullough, at Texas A & M in Dallas if ivermectin & HCQ had been used early on, 85% of the lives lost could have b/saved
    What about Frontline Doctors?
    What about Women and Fertility concerns?

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  15. Someday Girl says

    July 14, 2021 at 12:15 am

    Ivermectin

    https://twitter.com/alanarchuleta1/status/1408174832139735041?s=21

    https://youtu.be/5PyQmRMAMH4
    Dr. Manny Espinoza was a critically ill COVID-19 patient who was quickly deteriorating. His wife, also a physician, learned of the FLCCC's MATH+ Hospital Treatment Protocol and acted quickly to have her husband flown to United Memorial Medical Center in Houston to give him access to the drug that would save his life.

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  16. Ari Goldberg says

    July 20, 2021 at 4:20 pm

    Hi Sharyl, At the end of your 7/1/21 podcast on Covid-19 vaccine safety, you said, "...most people will not suffer these very serious adverse events..." This is making a scientific judgment, which I'm not sure it's wise for you to make. One of the papers you cited in the podcast included concerns over ADE, antibody-dependent enhancement, and nobody knows what the extent of this issue will be. The clinical trials won't be done for another year and a half, which also adds to the uncertainty about the extent of severe side effects. Also, Luc Montagnier, Geert Vanden Bossche, and others believe the vaccination program is causing more deadly and infectious variants, and we don't know how many people will be hospitalized or die. So there are still too many unknowns. Also, your statement is so vague it can hardly reassure anybody. If 49% of the vaccinated eventually have "very serious adverse events", your statement will have been technically correct, but how is that solace for anybody?

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  17. Anthony Dragunas Jr. says

    July 24, 2021 at 1:04 pm

    I am fighting with my parents over vaccination of my 12 year old daughter! She’s healthy no preexisting conditions whatsoever! It’s my understanding that young healthy children are not getting COVID unless they have preexisting conditions as per Hopkins recent publications!
    I personally am vaccinated. I am 54 yrs. of age . High blood pressure & recent mild heart attack . Not to mention the Covid 47 lbs. syndrome! I have really put on the pounds since the lock downs ! But I am very concerned that my daughters school will make rules that shame young people & their parents to take the vaccine or else! Face the mob ! My daughter has all her required school vaccinations. I am just another concerned parent & I am looking at the Health risks -VS- Benefit to my healthy young daughter ! If the teachers are vaccinated why mask our children? The teachers Unions have been bullying us parents & are so political; it’s ridiculous! Cheryl Atkinson is a fantastic independent journalist I enjoy watching her show most weekends! God bless America!
    🦅🇺🇸MAGA Movement 🇺🇸🦅

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    • Shelly says

      August 18, 2021 at 5:45 pm

      You should have serious concerns about gardisil. Just sayin.

      Reply
    • lawrence falkenstein says

      August 26, 2021 at 1:04 pm

      Personally, I'd favor a healthy immune system, such as your daughters, against a coronavirus over a so-called vaccine that quickly loses its effectiveness.

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  18. Richard Greene says

    July 24, 2021 at 4:36 pm

    Great article.
    Good website.
    I don't understand why I waited until last week
    to see if Sharyl had a website

    New VAERS data released today
    for the week ending July 16, 2021:

    I find the data hard to believe.

    A HUGE +90,000 more adverse reactions added this week
    But only very tiny +265 of them are said to be deaths.
    After +2000 more deaths reported in each of the prior two weeks

    I am trained to spot BS -- I have a BS degree.
    My internal BS meter is flashing.

    I noticed Antonio Chaves has commented here.
    I've read several of his articles at American Thinker.
    His comments here are hard to believe.
    But I believe them.
    My internal BS meter does not flash
    when I read his articles and comments.

    Of course we have no idea what the long term adverse vaccine effects will be.

    But judging by the unprecedented number of adverse side effects so far,
    it would seem like wishful thinking to expect minor long term adverse effects.

    I have not taken the vaccine, or any other vaccine in the past 60 years.
    I'm not anti-vaxx, but had a severe allergic reaction to a vaccine as a child.
    And that was my last vaccine ever -- not even a smallpox vaccine.
    I would never take an experimental vaccine, whether i had allergies or not.

    The absolute risk reductions for the current vaccines were tiny:
    -- The relative risk reduction (RRR) is best for selling vaccines
    -- The absolute risk reduction (ARR) is meaningful for the general public.

    Vaccine .............RRR..........ARR
    Pfizer.......................95%...........0.84%
    Moderna..............94%...........1.2%
    Gamaleya...........91%............0.93%
    John. & John......67%..........1.2%
    AstraZeneca ... 67%...........1.3%

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    • Richard Greene says

      July 25, 2021 at 10:39 am

      Let me add additional information to my prior comment:

      The risk reductions shown were ONLY for "mild COVID symptoms"
      and did not include the much rarer "severe COVID symptoms"

      Severe COVID symptoms do not include death, because no one died in those two months, whether COVID vaccinated or placebo vaccinated.. So the trial did not prove the vaccines prevent death, although that is a reasonable assumption from the results. The vaccines do not prevent infections -- they lessen symptoms, and hopefully prevent people from needing to go to hospitals.

      In Israel l the effectiveness of the Moderna and Pfizer medicines on the Delta variant have been poor. There are also indications from Israel that the vaccine inspired antibodies begin losing effectiveness after six months and an annual booster shot will be needed.

      The long term effects of tricking the human body into manufacturing spike proteins is unknown. These experimental medications did not have animal tests. Or long term human tests.

      Prior attempts to use mRNA technology for other diseases, which were all failures, had been animal killers. That potential problem was avoided this time by skipping animal testing.

      I dod not have the "severe COVID symptoms" risk reduction numbers for all the vaccines, but I do have them for the two most common vaccines:. Much smaller for the Pfizer vaccine:

      Moderna absolute risk reduction of severe COVID symptoms only = 0.22%

      Pfizer absolute risk reduction of severe COVID symptoms only = 0.035%

      You can add these numbers to the ARR numbers for mild COVID symptoms in my prior comment.

      The numbers are based on only two months of testing, on a batch of healthy people (above average), between the ages of 18 and 55. There may have been a few subjects over 55. None of the subjects were pregnant.

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  19. rooare says

    July 24, 2021 at 4:47 pm

    Thanks for the article Sharyl A. have passed it on. It's rather ghoulish to use the entire world population as guinea pigs me thinks.

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  20. Ec says

    July 25, 2021 at 7:02 pm

    The link with Linda Wastila’s name takes you to regulations.gov but it does not show the petition and instead gives several canned reasons for it not being there. More censorship?

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  21. Hillary says

    August 3, 2021 at 8:11 pm

    Sharyll, please remove the reference to an affiliation with Baylor when you refer to Dr. McCullogh. He separated from Baylor some time ago and this is just what they are suing him for. Baylor Scott and White in Dallas is engaging in a punitive lawsuit against Dr. Mc Cullough that is frivolous and does not disguise their underlying motive which is to silence a voice of authority, respect and expertise who reports the DATA on the substantial safety issues related to these vaccines and who has said from early in the pandemic that safe, effective, inexpensive is available.

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    • Sharyl Attkisson says

      August 3, 2021 at 10:13 pm

      thank you

      Reply
  22. Marc Maximilien Authier says

    August 6, 2021 at 9:09 pm

    Fantastic article. Sums up in detail what is going across the globe not just in USA. Very good journalism !!!!! Lets face it. THEY WANT US DEAD. The dark agenda here is mass extermination of most of us by the evil nazi like globalists. I used to think Alex Jones was a little bit of a nut. He still is but strangely he was spot on. The globalist agenda is genocide !!!!! The vaccine now is killing more people than even the virus. We have zero evidence that it immunize. Worse it is mutating the virus and making it more potent. They call the phenomena ADE antibody dependent enhancement or pathogenic priming. In sum our criminal mass murdering politicians are working real hard at creating an even bigger pandemic to democide billlions of humans !!!!!!! I know it seems stuff from a dystopian science fiction novel but look at the numbers.. The vaccines are UNSAFE, UNTESTED, DEADLY, DANGEROUS weird experimental gene therapies and they are now killing and damaging people in the millions !!!!!! We will need another Nurenburg trial for these new NAZIS !!!!!

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    • Mathew Reese says

      September 1, 2021 at 4:50 am

      These people are not new NAZIS, they have always been NAZIS. These are the same people (the Rockefeller and the Rothschild families and the elite families they represent) that financed Hitler prior and during the WW2. They have embraced the eugenic (reduction of the world's population) ideas more than a century ago. Maybe you don't know how the WHO was created. The Rockefeller foundation has created an organization embracing the eugenic ideas prior the creation of the WHO. When the WHO was created, suprisingly (or not) the same people that worked in that organization have been employed in WHO. Maybe you don't know that one of the ideas behind the creation of The Club Of Rome (the elitist club created by the Rockefellers in 1968) is to convince the world, that the worlds population is too much and has to be reduced.

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  23. MANISH JOSHI says

    August 17, 2021 at 12:54 pm

    Dear Sharyl
    Since your last show on natural immunity protection, the data is now unequivocal that it is the best protection specially when vaccines failure is evident and breakthrough infections are soaring worldwide
    .
    Below is the data summary we commented in JAMA for the readers; would like you to produce another show to reflect this new evidence .

    June 8, 2021
    We must stop ignoring natural immunity - it’s now long overdue
    Manish Joshi, MD

    This article by Vitale et al. (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2780557) is another addition to a growing body of literature supporting the conclusion that natural immunity confers robust, durable, and high-level protection against COVID-19 (1-4). Yet some scientific journals, editorial commentary associated with this article, and public policy messaging continue to cast doubt. That doubt has real-world consequences, especially, for resource limited countries. We would like to review available data.

    Infection generates immunity. The “SIREN” study in the Lancet addressed the relationships between seropositivity in people with previous COVID-19 infection and subsequent risk of severe acute respiratory syndrome due to SARS-CoV-2 infection over the subsequent 7-12 months (1). Prior infection decreased risk of symptomatic re-infection by 93%. A large cohort study published in JAMA Internal Medicine looked at 3.2 million US patients and showed that the risk of infection was significantly lower (0.3%) in seropositive patients v/s those who are seronegative (3%) (2).

    Perhaps even more important to the question of duration of immunity is a recent study that has demonstrated the presence of long-lived memory immune cells in those who have recovered from COVID-19 (3). This implies a prolonged (perhaps years) capacity to respond to new infection with new antibodies.

    In contrast to this collective data demonstrating both adequate and long-lasting protection in those who have recovered from COVID-19, the duration of vaccine-induced immunity is not fully known. To date >10,000 breakthrough infections (2 weeks after completion of vaccination) have been reported by CDC in the US, with a mortality of ~2% (5).

    How should we use the collective data to prioritize vaccination? These new data support simple and logical concepts. The goal of vaccination is to generate memory cells that can recognize SARS-CoV-2 and rapidly generate neutralizing antibodies that either prevent or mitigate both infection and transmission. Those who have survived COVID-19 must almost by definition have mounted an effective immune response; it is not surprising that the evolving literature shows that prior infection decreases vulnerability. In our view, the data suggest that people confirmed to have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 may not need vaccination, and do not need vaccination in the short term. Given the number of persons who have been infected, this simple approach could free up vaccine (estimated ~200 million doses) for the more vulnerable population around the globe and could accelerate vaccine roll-out tremendously for those in need.(6) We should not be debating the implications of prior infection; we should be debating how to confirm prior infection.

    Manish Joshi, MD
    Thaddeus Bartter, MD
    Anita Joshi, BDS, MPH

    1. Hall VJ, Foulkes S, Charlett A et al. SARS-CoV-2 infection rates of antibody-positive compared with antibody-negative health-care workers in England: large, multicentre, prospective cohort study (SIREN). Lancet. 2021
    2. Harvey RA, Rassen JA, Kabelac CA, et al. Association of SARS-CoV-2 Seropositive Antibody Test With Risk of Future Infection. JAMA Intern Med.
    3. Turner, J.S., Kim, W., Kalaidina, E. et al. SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans. Nature 2021
    4. Wang, Z., Yang, X., Zhong, J. et al. Exposure to SARS-CoV-2 generates T-cell memory in the absence of a detectable viral infection. Nat Commun 12, 1724 (2021).
    5. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7021e3.htm
    6. Kuehn BM. High-Income Countries Have Secured the Bulk of COVID-19 Vaccines. JAMA. 2021;325(7):612

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  24. Dr. John Wells says

    August 17, 2021 at 8:01 pm

    A gem of an interview with Dr. Ryan Cole Wide ranging on vaccines, early treatments, and more.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUE5EBPt-lU

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  25. RICHARD R BAUMGARTNER says

    August 20, 2021 at 11:45 am

    Sharyl,

    Thank you for all the resources that you have included. You would do yourself and your readers a favor by interviewing Dr. Bret Weinstein and Dr. Pierre Kory, Dr Robert Maline and Mr Steve Kirsch, who appear with Weinstein on Rumble. Dr Kroy appeared before the Senate and was ridiculed by the minority as being political. The above mentioned men are trying to get the truth out and their story is compelling. Please interview or refer to their research. Thanks.

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  26. B Ardtn says

    August 24, 2021 at 11:17 am

    This info is really scary, and what is even more unnerving is it seems lots of people don't even have a clue, as to the real issues at hand. Without some knowledge as to either the pros and cons of the issue how can you make good decision. Second, why is it that when people speak out against the vaccine or virus they get either censored or fact checked? First obvious question on the fact checkers, who did they vote for? These fact checkers are not independent or neutral, as they want us to believe, witch plays into their conclusion. As they say Garbage in Garbage out! So when people say they are going to fact check, it really doesn't mean anything! Maybe just another viewpoint that agrees with the asker. Censorship speaks for itself, as to what are they trying to hide? When something gets censored it tells you, that you better take second look at what's censored and why?

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  27. David says

    August 25, 2021 at 11:56 am

    Regarding this paragraph:

    "Previously-infected
    CDC falsely claimed that studies showed Covid-19 vaccines are effective for those who already had Covid-19. In fact, studies showed the opposite."

    I have followed the link and tried to find the original data that Congressman Thomas Massie is referring to but I cannot find it. Right now I just have Congressman Thomas Massie's word but no actual data. If the congressman (and this report) is stating the CDC is lying, there should be a link to the CDC statement and a link to the data used which demonstrates their statement is false. I hope to eventually see a link.

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  28. Lan says

    August 25, 2021 at 3:27 pm

    This is the first and only summary of adverse vaccine reactions I've found. My sister died two weeks ago of TTP ("thrombosis with thrombocytopenia"). She was one of the healthiest people I know before she got vaccinated. Three weeks after her second dose she was in the ER, the first of many trips there. The local hospital was completely flummoxed by the plethora of issues she was presenting: extreme gastrointestinal disorder; heart problems that numerous cardiologists could not identify; kidney failure and finally, blood clotting in her brain and a stroke. All were finally linked to micro-clotting throughout her bloodstream affecting all the major organs. Shortly before she passed the team of doctors treating her for TTP changed the diagnosis to something similar but even more rare than TTP and not associated with adverse vaccine reaction. They didn't even wait for lab confirmation of the new diagnosis before they put it on her death certificate. Now we're having problems getting the result of the lab test. No one else wants to talk about potential risks of vaccines and politicians want to mandate everyone get them. The adverse reactions are rare, but people should be able to get the information and evaluate the risk for themselves. The entire response to this virus has been autocratic and even the doctors and "science" have succumbed to the plague of autocratic certainty.

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  29. Geo says

    August 27, 2021 at 4:31 pm

    https://www.technocracy.news/coroner-certifies-bbc-personality-died-from-astrazeneca-vaccine/ BBC commentator was ruled death by vaccine by coroner.

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  30. John says

    August 31, 2021 at 2:27 pm

    Even worse, did anyone see that the number of deaths in the two arms are now 21 vaccine v 17 placebo? Not the 15 v. 14 Pfizer reported weeks ago. Buried in the document on the FDA website. 20% increase in deaths I guess is "saving lives" https://covid1984.substack.com/p/comirnaty-summary-basis-for-approval

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  31. Stephen Triesch says

    September 2, 2021 at 7:18 pm

    Despite all of these safety concerns raised by medical experts in numerous countries, the medical and political establishment (supported by the media) continues its frenzy for universal vaccination and the ostracism of the unvaccinated. Is anyone surprised that "conspiracy theories" abound?

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