(UPDATED) Exclusive Summary: Covid-19 Vaccine Concerns

By Sharyl Attkisson | August 15, 2025

Updated Aug. 2025 with greater risk of respiratory infections
Updated Sept. 15, 2023 with fatal autoimmune disorder
Updated June 9, 2023 with higher Covid risk for vaccinated people
Updated April 27, 2023 with Bell’s palsy study
Updated Jan. 13, 2023 with CDC stroke data
Updated Jan. 13, 2023 with vaccine antibodies transmitted in breast milk
Updated Jan. 12, 2023 with heart issues in young people
Updated Jan. 1, 2023 with autopsy findings on heart deaths
Updated Dec. 30, 2022 with risk of triggering shingles
Updated Dec. 29, 2022 with links to diabetes
Updated Nov. 10, 2022 with “net harm” to young people due to heart risks, etc.
Updated Oct. 28, 2022 with “heavy menstrual bleeding”
Updated Oct. 9, 2022 with organ and corneal transplant failures
Updated Oct. 8, 2022 with Florida Surgeon General recommending against for men under 40 due to risk of death from heart problems
Updated Oct. 1, 2022 with menstrual cycle changes
Updated Oct. 2022 with Multiple Sclerosis concerns
Updated Sept. 1, 2022 with higher risks for mRNA vaccines
Updated Aug. 31, 2022 with hemorrhragic stroke risk re: Pfizer
Updated Aug. 5, 2022 with heart risk re: Novavax
Updated June 25, 2022 with higher Covid rate among vaccinated
Updated June 18, 2022 with Novavax heart concerns
Updated June 14, 2022 with Bell’s Palsy and Ramsay Hunt Syndrome concerns
Updated May 11, 2022 with FDA limiting J&J due to blood clot concerns
Updated April 26, 2022 with more Guillain Barre paralysis concerns
Updated March 12, 2022 with studies on vaccine-related tinnitis
Updated Feb. 14, 2022 with pathologist study on heart deaths in children after vaccination
Updated Jan. 20, 2022 with new warnings about serious neurological and blood conditions
Updated Jan. 12, 2022 with additional blood disorder warnings
Updated Jan 13, 2022 with study confirming menstrual cycle changes in women after vaccination
Updated Jan. 13, 2022 with concerns about repeat boosters
Updated Dec. 24, 2021 with Danish study again confirming serious heart inflammation risk from vaccination
Updated Dec. 16, 2021 with CDC warning of dangerous blood clot risk with Johnson & Johnson vaccine
Updated Dec. 15, 2021 with CDC confirming Johnson and Johnson vaccine link to Guillain Barre paralysis
Updated Dec. 14, 2021 with British study showing increased heart inflammation risk from vaccination
Updated Nov. 21, 2021 with “dramatic” increase in risk of heart injury
Updated Nov. 14, 2021 with Taiwan suspending second dose of Covid vaccine for children
Updated Nov. 13, 2021 with concerns over Capillary Leak Syndrome
Updated Nov. 10, 2021 with Germany limiting Moderna in young people; pregnant women
Updated Nov. 7, 2021 with study showing 2 of 3 U.S. vaccines under 50% effectiveness after 6 mos.
Updated Oct. 30, 2021 with UK study showing no difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated in peak viral load
Updated Oct. 29, 2021 with Israel study showing waning immunity in a few months in all age groups after vaccination
Updated Oct. 23, 2021 with increased rate of preterm birth in pregnant women
Updated Oct. 10, 2021 with Iceland pausing Moderna over increased heart problems
Updated Oct. 8, 2021 with Vietnam study about vaccinated people carrying more Delta viral load; spreading Covid
Updated Oct. 7, 2021 with Finland pausing Moderna vaccine for young males due to heart issues.
Updated Oct. 6, 2021 with Sweden and Denmark halting Moderna in young people due to risk of heart injuries. Slovenia suspends Johnson & Johnson.
Updated Oct. 4, 2021 with study about vaccine immunity quickly wearing off
Updated Oct. 3, 2021 with EU blood disorder concerns and Hepatitis C death
Updated Sept. 19, 2021 with British study about menstrual cycle changes in women
Updated Sept. 12, 2021 with study finding teenage boys face much higher heart risk from vaccine than Covid
Updated Sept. 10, 2021 with Israel study on majority of hospitalized being vaccinated
Updated Sept. 9, 2021 with CDC study about increased myocarditis/heart inflammation risk, lymphadenopathy, appendicitis, and herpes zoster infection
Updated Sept. 4, 2021 with acute CNS demyelination after Pfizer and Moderna vaccines
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 vaccines in the U.S. for both old and young alike; many other countries have limited Covid-19 vaccine use under certain conditions. Health officials around the world are giving varying advice on safety issues as Covid-19 vaccines are given to more people, and more information is collected.

Read CDC’s information here.

Moderna vaccine info sheet.

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

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General

Acute CNS Demyelination and Multiple Sclerosis

Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE)

Appendicitis

Blood Clots and Blood Disorders

Capillary Leak Syndrome (Clarkson’s disease)

Covid Infection

Diabetes

Frail, Elderly

Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)

Graves Disease Autoimmune Disorder

Heart Issues (also see Blood Clots)

Hepatitis C Reactivation and Death

Herpes Zoster Infection

Lymphadenopathy

Manufacturing Problems

Menstrual Cycle Changes

Multiple Sclerosis

Paralysis: Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, Bell’s Palsy & Other Paralysis

Pemphigus Vulgaris

Pregnant Women & Moms

Previously Infected

Respiratory Infections

Shingles

Tinnitis

Transplant Rejection

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Pfizer, Moderna

Johnson & Johnson

AstraZeneca

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Summary by safety concern

General

Updated June 17, 2023: A study by Cleveland Clinic confirms “up to date” vaccinated people are at greater risk of getting Covid.

Updated Sept. 1, 2022: A study in the journal Vaccine finds: Excess risk of serious adverse events from Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines outweighs risks from Covid-19 itself. Pfizer vaccine: 36% higher risk of serious adverse events than placebo. Moderna: 6% higher. Combined: 16% higher.

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.]

Acute CNS Demyelination and Multiple Sclerosis

A new study in Journal of Neurology examines possible links between Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, and acute Central Nervous System (CNS) demyelination, including Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

Demyelinating diseases damage the protective covering surrounding nerve fibers in the brain, optic nerves and spinal cord, causing neurological problems. In the study, four patients had the Pfizer vaccine and three had the Moderna vaccine. Within 21 days of the first or second dose, the patients developed active CNS demyelination of the optic nerve, brain, and/or spinal cord leading to “visual loss, dysmetria, gait instability, paresthesias, sphincter disturbance, and limb weakness.”

Age ranged from 24 to 64 years old. Four patients were ultimately diagnoses with exacerbation of their stable MS.

Two were diagnosed with new cases of MS.

One was diagnosed with neuromyelitis optica.

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

Appendicitis

Updated Sept. 9, 2021: The Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccine was found to be associated with increased risk of appendicitis, according to a real-world case-control study from Israel.

Blood Clots and Blood Disorders

Updated Jan. 13, 2023: CDC announces safety signal in the vaccine data for stroke, but says it probably means nothing.

Updated Aug. 31, 2022: A Hong Kong study finds Pfizer vaccine carries increased risk of hemorrhragic stroke after Pfizer vaccine. The study authors say it’s still a benefit to get vaccinated, though, because the stroke rate among Covid patients is even higher. But that wrongly assumes vaccination prevents Covid. It also compares the wrong pools of patients. To look at true risk vs. benefit, the stroke rate should be compared between vaccinated people and all unvaccinated people– not just those with Covid.

Updated May 11, 2022: FDA limits use of Johnson & Johnson vaccine citing risk of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS): blood clots in combination with low levels of blood platelets.

Updated Jan. 20, 2022: The FDA has added a warning about immune thrombocytopenia, ITP, to Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine.

Updated Dec. 17, 2021: CDC warns of risk of blood clots, Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS), with Johnson & Johnson vaccine and recommends people get Moderna or Pfizer, instead.

Updated Oct. 6, 2021: Slovenia has temporarily halted Johnson & Johnson vaccine after a stroke death in a 20 year old woman.

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 halted AstraZeneca shots for a time due to blood issues or impact on frail. Iceland, and possibly others, reinstated it in people over age 70 and, perhaps, in some over age 60.

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.

Updated Sept. 9, 2021: An August 10 study in JAMA Cardiology urged caution in giving Covid-19 vaccine to certain high risk patients due to the vaccine link to a serious blood disorder: thrombocytopenia with thrombosis. “One of the devastating manifestations of this syndrome, termed vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT), is cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST),” say the study authors. The link involves the AstraZeneca/Oxford and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, according to the study. The AstraZeneca vaccine is not administered in the U.S. currently.

Read the study here.

Read about a case of VITT in an otherwise healthy mother who died after vaccination.

Updated Oct. 3, 2021: The European Medicines Agency recommended that blood clotting in deep veins and immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), a bleeding disorder caused by the body mistakenly attacking platelets, be added as adverse reactions to Johnson and Johnson vaccine. The ITP disorder is also linked to the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines, which are not used in the U.S.

Capillary Leak Syndrome (Clarkson’s disease)

Updated Nov. 13, 2021: European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced a review of Moderna vaccine and a possible link to Capillary Leak Syndrome, “a rare disorder involving repeated leaks of large amounts of plasma from blood vessels into nearby body cavities and muscles. The condition—known as Clarkson’s disease—can result in a sharp drop in blood pressure that can lead to organ failure or even death.”

Earlier in the year, the EMA required Capillary Leak Syndrome to be added to the warning label of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine (which is not used in the U.S.)

Covid Infection

Nearly every measure finds the Covid infection rate is higher among the vaccinated than among the unvaccinated.

“..the trend line suggests a marginally positive association such that countries with higher percentage of population fully vaccinated have higher COVID-19 cases per 1 million people. Notably, Israel with over 60% of their population fully vaccinated had the highest COVID-19 cases per 1 million people in the last 7 days. The lack of a meaningful association between percentage population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases is further exemplified, for instance, by comparison of Iceland and Portugal. Both countries have over 75% of their population fully vaccinated and have more COVID-19 cases per 1 million people than countries such as Vietnam and South Africa that have around 10% of their population fully vaccinated.
“Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States“

Diabetes

(Updated Dec. 29, 2022) Numerous case studies link Covid-19 mRNA vaccines to development of diabetes. Diabetes is also linked to other vaccines.

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 die d after Pfizer or Moderna Covid-19 vaccine. In one group, a number of the patients who died tested positive for Covid-19 after vaccination.

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.

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.

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/

Heart Issues (see also Blood Clots)

Updated Jan. 12, 2023: Hundreds of young people who received Pfizer’s vaccine at their high school reported cardiac symptoms and a significant percent had abnormal electrocardiogram results, researchers in Taiwan reported in a new study in the European Journal of Pediatrics.

Updated Jan. 1, 2023: A German study of autopsy results further confirms acute arrhythmogenic cardiac failure from myocarditis can be a potentially lethal complication following mRNA-based anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.

Updated Nov. 10, 2022: Oxford ethics scientists conclude Covid “Booster mandates in young adults are expected to cause a net harm: per COVID-19 hospitalisation prevented, we anticipate at least 18.5 serious adverse events from mRNA vaccines, including 1.5–4.6 booster-associated myopericarditis cases in males (typically requiring hospitalisation).”

Updated Oct. 8, 2022: Florida surgeon general advises young men should avoid Covid vaccines due to 84% increase in the relative incidence of cardiac-related death among males 18-39 within 28 days following mRNA vaccination.

Updated Aug. 5, 2022: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommends Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine carry warnings about heart inflammation: myocarditis and pericarditis.

Updated June 18, 2022: The FDA flagged the non-mRNA shot Novavax for heart issues similar to the mRNA vaccines, shortly before recommending the okay for Novavax in the US.

Updated Feb. 14, 2022: A pathology report on two children who died of heart issues after their second Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine implicates the vaccine as the cause.

Updated Dec. 24, 2021: A Danish study found people at “significantly increased risk” or heart inflammation after Moderna and Pfizer Covid-19 vaccination “primarily driven by an increased risk among individuals aged 12-39 years.”

Updated Dec. 14, 2021: A British study found people at increased risk of heart inflammation from AstraZeneca (not used in U.S.), Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines.

Updated Nov. 21, 2021: An analysis presented at the American Heart Association and published in the journal Cardiology warns of a “dramatic” increase in heart risk for most people who got Covid-19 RNA vaccine.

Updated Nov. 14, 2021: Taiwan’s health minister announced temporary suspension of the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine for children due to concerns about myocarditis heart inflammation. Pfizer is the vaccine given in Taiwan.

Updated Nov. 10, 2021: A German advisory panel says the Moderna shot should not be used in people under 30 or pregnant women because it causes more cases of heart inflammation than Pfizer. Moderna’s rate of heart inflammation in young men was nearly triple that reported after Pfizer. Some health authorities have flagged heart issues with both vaccines.

Updated Oct. 10, 2021: Iceland joins Finland, Sweden and Denmark in pausing Moderna due to increased heart issues such as myocarditis and pericarditis. While some of the countries are permitting Moderna in people over age 30, Iceland is not permitting its use at all, currently.

Updated Oct. 7, 2021: Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in pausing use of Moderna in men 30 and under due to heart issues after a Nordic study found that men under the age of 30 were at a higher risk of developing myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle.

Updated Oct. 6, 2021: Sweden and Denmark have halted use of Moderna in people under age 30 due to increased risk of heart injuries such as myocarditis. Slovenia has temporarily halted Johnson & Johnson.

Updated Sept. 9, 2021: The Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccine was found to be associated with a threefold increased risk of myocarditis, according to a real-world case-control study from Israel. “Vaccination had a strong association with an increased risk of myocarditis as well as increased risks of lymphadenopathy [swelling or inflammation of lymph nodes], appendicitis, and herpes zoster infection.”

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.

Updated Sept.9, 2021: An August 10 study in JAMA Cardiology confirms the previously identified Pfizer vaccine’s myocarditis (heart inflammation) risk in young boys.

Read the study here.

Updated Sept. 12, 2021: A study of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines finds teenage boys are six times more likely to suffer heart issues from Covid-19 vaccination than from Covid. (However, in both instances, the risk is considered slight.)

Hepatitis C Reactivation and Death

Update Oct. 3, 2021: Scientists in the Netherlands report an elderly woman suffered “reactivation of hepatitis C infection after vaccination with the mRNA-based Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. This reactivation manifested with jaundice, loss of consciousness, hepatic coma and death” suggesting “a need for critical consideration of individuals with prior HCV infection and considered for COVID-19 vaccination.”

According to the scientists, “It is known for other vaccines that they can cause virus reactivation, especially in immunosuppressed patients and patients undergoing cancer treatment, eg as described for the herpes zoster subunit vaccine.”

Herpes Zoster Infection

Updated Sept. 9, 2021: The Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccine was found to be associated with an increased risk of herpes zoster infection, according to a real-world case-control study from Israel.

Updated Oct. 3, 2021: An original analysis of adverse events I conducted of the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting (VAERS) showed 6,339 herpes-related reports.

Lymphadenopathy

Updated Sept. 9, 2021: The Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccine was found to be associated with an increased risk of lymphadenopathy, swelling or inflammation of lymph nodes according to a real-world case-control study from Israel.

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.”

Menstrual Cycle Changes

Updated Oct. 28, 2022: The European Medicines agency recommends “heavy menstrual bleeding” be disclosed as side effect of Covid shots Comirnaty and Spikevac.

Updated Oct. 1, 2022: A study further confirms Covid-19 vaccination leads to a small and hopefully temporary change in menstrual cycle length.

Updated Jan. 13, 2022: A study finds vaccination impacts and delays women’s periods.

Updated Sept. 19, 2021: All brands of Covid-19 vaccines are associated in changes in menstrual cycles of women, according to a British study.

Biologically plausible mechanisms linking immune stimulation with menstrual changes include immunological influences on the hormones driving the menstrual cycle or effects mediated by immune cells in the lining of the uterus, which are involved in the cyclical build-up and breakdown of this tissue. Research exploring a possible association between covid-19 vaccines and menstrual changes may also help understand the mechanism.
Menstrual changes after covid-19 vaccination

Multiple Sclerosis, an immune disorder

Update Oct. 2022: After many reports of Multiple Sclerosis illness or recurrence after Covid vaccine, as with other vaccinations, an investigation of two cases finds a potential link between MS and Covid vaccines.

Paralysis: Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, Bell’s Palsy & Other Paralysis

Update April 27, 2023: An analysis in JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surgery finds Bell’s Palsy paralysis occurs in significantly higher numbers of people vaccinated with Covid vaccines versus placebo. The study claims Bell’s Palsy occurs even more frequently with Covid infection, but leaves out that the vaccines don’t protect against infection or transmission, so they only add to the risk. The analysis also omits that many people will never get sick with Covid or show symptoms, but 100% of those who get vaccinated are subjected to the possible increased Bell’s Palsy risk.

Update June 14, 2022: Pop star Justin Bieber announces he has Ramsay Hunt Syndrome paralysis. Scientists have found a suspected link between herpes/shingles/chickenpox activation or reactivation after Covid-19 vaccine, leading to facial paralysis, hearing loss, tinnitus and other disorders.

A patient with suspected vaccine-triggered Ramsay Hunt paralysis and hearing loss (from British Medical Journal)

Update April 26, 2022: Rates of Guillain-Barre “continue to be unusually high after Johnson & Johnson shot” according to a new analysis. “The findings confirm data seen in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) that led to the FDA warning about the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in July 2021….A head-to-head comparison showed the Johnson & Johnson vaccine carried a 20% higher risk for Guillain-Barré than the mRNA shots.”

Update Jan. 20, 2022: European advisers recommended adding warnings about transverse myelitis, a serious spinal inflammation neurological disorder that can paralyze, to Johnson & Johnson’s and AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccines.

Update Dec. 15, 2021: A CDC analysis of adverse events reported to the Vaccine Safety Datalink system confirms an increased risk of Guillain-Barre paralysis after Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 vaccination.

Update Oct. 2021: A study finds link between Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 vaccine and Guillain-Barre 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.

Pemphigus Vulgaris autoimmune disorder

Updated Sept. 15, 2023: According to a new, published report, “As many people worldwide have been vaccinated, more triggered autoimmune bullous diseases have been noticed. We reported a case of new-onset pemphigus Vulgaris after COVID-19 vaccinations…Pemphigus Vulgaris is a rare, fatal, autoimmune disease.”

Pregnant Women

Updated Jan. 13, 2022: A study finds vaccine antibodies in breast milk and plasma of vaccinated women, transmitted to their babies. Scientists say that’s a good thing.

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.

Updated Oct. 23, 2021: A study of AstraZeneca vaccine (not used in the U.S.) finds 30% preterm birth rate for pregnant women vs. 0% in the control group.

Vaccinated (left column) vs. Control (right column)

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.

Respiratory Infections

Aug. 9, 2025: Covid-vaccinated people were more likely to have episodes of flu-like respiratory illness or fever and a respiratory symptom, such as cough/sore throat.

Among unvaccinated participants, 33% suffered from one or more episodes of influenza-like illness. For people who had received one or two doses of the vaccine, it was 44%.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43856-025-01046-8

Shingles

Updated Dec. 30, 2022: A large study conducted in Germany and by the University of Virginia finds mRNA Covid vaccines can trigger shingles outbreaks.

Tinnitis

Multiple studies as well as the VAERS database document vaccine-associated tinnitis or ringing and/or noise in one or both ears, which can be a result of nerve damage and can be debilitating.

Transplant Rejection

Updated Oct 9, 2022: A study by Japanese researchers in the Journal of Clinical Medicine showed that acute corneal allografts may be rejected by those who have recently received Covid shots. There are other published studies regarding organ transplant rejection after Covid vaccination. Other vaccines, including flu shots, are also believed to cause organ transplant rejection in some, say scientists.

Waning Immunity, Breakthrough Infections

Read: “Pandemic of the Vaccinated”

Update Jan. 13, 2022: European Union regulators warned that “frequent Covid-19 booster shots could adversely affect the immune system and may not be feasible.” The agency said that “Repeat booster doses every four months could eventually weaken the immune system and tire out people.” The concern arises as more data reveals the Covid-19 shots do not provide effective protection against infection and spread of Covid beyond a short period of time.

Update Nov. 7, 2021: A U.S. study finds after 6 mos. Moderna vaccine effectiveness drops to 60%. Pfizer drops to 49%. J&J drops to 13%. Last yr, FDA’s Dr. Hahn said FDA wouldn’t authorize vaccines that weren’t at least 50% effective.

Update Oct. 30, 2021: A UK study finds “Household Secondary Attack Rate for delta infection, regardless of vaccination status, was 26%” and “peak viral load did not differ by vaccination status.”

Update Oct. 29, 2021: Unlike natural immunity, Israeli data confirms that the Pfizer vaccine wore off in just a few months in all age groups.

Update Oct. 13, 2021: Data from the UK finds vaccines are “highly effective,” but effectiveness wanes after as little as 3-4 months.

Update Oct. 8, 2021: A study of health care workers in Vietnam found vaccinated people infected with Delta Covid-19 carry “unusually high viral loads” in their nostrils that are “251 times higher.” The study said that during a period when the vaccinated patients are infected but don’t yet know it, they could be responsible for heightened spread to other vaccinated or the unvaccinated. The subjects had been fully vaccinated with AstraZeneca’s vaccine, which is not used in the U.S.

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.

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 Sept. 10, 2021: An analysis of data in Israel, which has one of the world’s highest Covid-19 vaccination levels, showed almost 60% of those hospitalized for Covid were fully vaccinated. “This is a very clear warning sign for the rest of the world,” said Ran Balicer, CIO at Clalit Health Services, Israel’s largest health maintenance organization. “If it can happen here, it can probably happen anywhere.” The Pfizer vaccine is given in Israel.

Update Oct. 4, 2021: A study by university and NIH scientists in the U.S. finds Pfizer vaccine antibodies disappear after about 7 months in many patients.

Summary by vaccine

Novavax

Updated Aug. 5, 2022: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommends Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine carry warnings about heart inflammation: myocarditis and pericarditis. The FDA flagged heart side effects o Novavax in June of 2022.

Pfizer and Moderna

Transplant Rejection

Updated Oct. 9, 2022: A study by Japanese researchers published in June 2022 in the Journal of Clinical Medicine showed that acute corneal allografts may be rejected by those who have recently received Covid shots. There are other published studies regarding organ transplant rejection after Covid vaccination. Other vaccines, including flu shots, are also believed to cause organ transplant rejection in some, say scientists.

Menstrual Cycle Changes

Updated Oct. 1, 2022: A study further confirms Covid-19 vaccination leads to a small and hopefully temporary change in menstrual cycle length.

Updated Jan. 13, 2022: A study finds vaccination impacts and delays women’s periods.

Updated Sept. 19, 2021: All brands of Covid-19 vaccines are associated in changes in menstrual cycles of women, according to a British study.

Biologically plausible mechanisms linking immune stimulation with menstrual changes include immunological influences on the hormones driving the menstrual cycle or effects mediated by immune cells in the lining of the uterus, which are involved in the cyclical build-up and breakdown of this tissue. Research exploring a possible association between covid-19 vaccines and menstrual changes may also help understand the mechanism.
Menstrual changes after covid-19 vaccination

Acute CNS Demyelination and Multiple Sclerosis

A new study in Journal of Neurology examines possible links between Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, and acute Central Nervous System (CNS) demyelination, including Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

Age ranged from 24 to 64 years old. Four patients were ultimately diagnoses with exacerbation of their stable MS.

Two were diagnosed with new cases of MS.

One was diagnosed with neuromyelitis optica.

Capillary Leak Syndrome:

Waning Immunity, Breakthrough Infections

Update Oct. 29, 2021: Unlike natural immunity, Israeli data confirms that the Pfizer vaccine wore off in just a few months in all age groups.

Update Oct. 13, 2021: Data from the UK finds vaccines are “highly effective,” but effectiveness wanes after as little as 3-4 months.

Update Oct. 4, 2021: A study by university and NIH scientists in the U.S. finds Pfizer vaccine antibodies disappear after about 7 months in many patients.

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.

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

Guillain-Barre autoimmune paralysis and Ramsay Hunt syndrome

Blood Clots

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.

(Updated Dec. 29, 2022) Numerous case studies link Covid-19 mRNA vaccines to development of diabetes. Diabetes is also linked to other vaccines.

Heart inflammation

Updated Feb. 14, 2022: A pathology report on two children who died of heart issues after their second Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine implicates the vaccine as the cause.

Updated Dec. 14, 2021: A British study study found people at increased risk of heart inflammation from AstraZeneca (not used in U.S.), Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines.

Updated Oct. 10, 2021: Iceland joins Finland, Sweden and Denmark in pausing Moderna due to increased heart issues such as myocarditis and pericarditis. While some of the countries are permitting Moderns in people over age 30, Iceland is not permitting its use at all, currently.

Updated Oct. 6, 2021: Sweden and Denmark have halted use of Moderna in people under age 30 due to increased risk of heart injuries such as myocarditis.

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.

Frail, elderly

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.”

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.

Graves Disease

Shingles

Updated Dec. 30, 2022: A large study conducted in Germany and by the University of Virginia finds mRNA Covid vaccines can trigger shingles outbreaks.

Novavax

Updated June 18, 2022: The FDA flagged the non-mRNA shot Novavax for heart issues similar to the mRNA vaccines, shortly before recommending the okay for Novavax in the US.

Johnson and Johnson

Updated Oct. 9, 2022: Transplant Rejection: A study by Japanese researchers published in June 2022 in the Journal of Clinical Medicine showed that acute corneal allografts may be rejected by those who have recently received Covid shots. There are other published studies regarding organ transplant rejection after Covid vaccination. Other vaccines, including flu shots, are also believed to cause organ transplant rejection in some, say scientists.

Updated Oct. 1, 2022: A study further confirms Covid-19 vaccination leads to a small and hopefully temporary change in menstrual cycle length.

Updated May 11, 2022: FDA limits use of Johnson & Johnson vaccine citing risk of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS): blood clots in combination with low levels of blood platelets.

Updated Jan. 20, 2022: The FDA has added a warning about immune thrombocytopenia, ITP, to Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine.

Update Dec. 16, 2021: CDC warns of risk of blood clots, Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS), with Johnson & Johnson vaccine and recommends people get Moderna or Pfizer, instead.

Update Oct. 2021: A study finds link between Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 vaccine and Guillain-Barre paralysis.

Updated Oct. 6, 2021: Slovenia has temporarily halted Johnson & Johnson after the stroke death of a 20 year old woman.

Update Sept. 19, 2021: All brands of Covid-19 vaccines are associated in changes in menstrual cycles of women, according to a British study.

Biologically plausible mechanisms linking immune stimulation with menstrual changes include immunological influences on the hormones driving the menstrual cycle or effects mediated by immune cells in the lining of the uterus, which are involved in the cyclical build-up and breakdown of this tissue. Research exploring a possible association between covid-19 vaccines and menstrual changes may also help understand the mechanism.
Menstrual changes after covid-19 vaccination

Update Sept. 9, 2021: An August 10 study in JAMA Cardiology urged caution in giving Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 vaccine to certain high risk patients due to the vaccine link to a serious blood disorder: thrombocytopenia with thrombosis. “One of the devastating manifestations of this syndrome, termed vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT), is cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST),” say the study authors.

Read the study here.

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.

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.

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.)

Capillary Leak Syndrome

The European Medicines Agency required Capillary Leak Syndrome to be added to the warning label of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine.

Update Sept. 19, 2021: All brands of Covid-19 vaccines are associated in changes in menstrual cycles of women, according to a British study.

Biologically plausible mechanisms linking immune stimulation with menstrual changes include immunological influences on the hormones driving the menstrual cycle or effects mediated by immune cells in the lining of the uterus, which are involved in the cyclical build-up and breakdown of this tissue. Research exploring a possible association between covid-19 vaccines and menstrual changes may also help understand the mechanism.
Menstrual changes after covid-19 vaccination

Update: Sept. 9, 2021: An August 10 study in JAMA Cardiology urged caution in giving AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to certain high risk patients due to the vaccine link to a serious blood disorder: thrombocytopenia with thrombosis. “One of the devastating manifestations of this syndrome, termed vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT), is cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST),” say the study authors.

Read the study here.

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 halted AstraZeneca shots due to blood issues or impact on frail. Iceland, and perhaps some others, reinstated it in people over age 70 and, perhaps, in some over age 60.

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.

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.

Updated Dec. 14, 2021: A British study study found people at increased risk of heart inflammation from AstraZeneca (not used in U.S.), Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines.

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.

Updated Oct. 23, 2021: A study of AstraZeneca vaccine (not used in the U.S.) finds 30% preterm birth rate for pregnant women vs. 0% in the control group. (The study was done in women in Brazil, the UK and S. Africa)

Bulgaria: Bulgaria, Iceland and Norway halted AstraZeneca shots for a time due to blood issues or impact on frail. Iceland, and possibly others, reinstated it in people over age 70 and, perhaps, in some over age 60.

Denmark: Updated Dec. 24, 2021: A Danish study found people at “significantly increased risk” or heart inflammation after Moderna and Pfizer Covid-19 vaccination “primarily driven by an increased risk among individuals aged 12-39 years.”

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

Updated Oct. 6, 2021: Sweden and Denmark have halted use of Moderna in people under age 30 due to increased risk of heart injuries such as myocarditis.

European Union: Updated Oct. 28, 2022: The European Medicines agency recommends “heavy menstrual bleeding” be disclosed as side effect of Covid shots Comirnaty and Spikevac.

Updated Jan. 20, 2022: European advisers recommended adding warnings about transverse myelitis, a serious spinal inflammation neurological disorder that can paralyze, to Johnson & Johnson’s and AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccines.

Updated Nov. 13, 2021: The European Medicines Agency announced a review of Moderna vaccine and a possible link to Capillary Leak Syndrome, “a rare disorder involving repeated leaks of large amounts of plasma from blood vessels into nearby body cavities and muscles. The condition—known as Clarkson’s disease—can result in a sharp drop in blood pressure that can lead to organ failure or even death.”

Earlier in the year, the EMA required Capillary Leak Syndrome to be added to the warning label of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine (which is not used in the U.S.)

Oct. 3, 2021: The European Medicines Agency recommended that blood clotting in deep veins and immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), a bleeding disorder caused by the body mistakenly attacking platelets, be added as adverse reactions to Johnson and Johnson vaccine. The ITP disorder is also linked to the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines, which aren’t currently used in the US..

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.

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

Finland: Updated Oct. 7, 2021: Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in pausing use of Moderna in men 30 and under due to heart issues after a Nordic study found that men under the age of 30 were at a higher risk of developing myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle.

Germany:

Updated Dec. 30, 2022: A large study conducted in Germany and by the University of Virginia finds mRNA Covid vaccines can trigger shingles outbreaks.

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:

Halted AstraZeneca shots due to blood issues in March, then reinstated it for people over age 70 and perhaps some over age 60.

Updated Oct. 10, 2021: Iceland joins Finland, Sweden and Denmark in pausing Moderna due to increased heart issues such as myocarditis and pericarditis. While some of the countries are permitting Moderns in people over age 30, Iceland is not permitting its use at all, currently.

India:

Israel:

Update: June 25, 2022: Nearly every measure finds the Covid infection rate is higher among the vaccinated than among the unvaccinated.

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.

Updated Sept. 9 2021: The Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccine was found to be associated with a threefold increased risk of myocarditis, according to a real-world case-control study from Israel. “Vaccination had a strong association with an increased risk of myocarditis as well as increased risks of lymphadenopathy [swelling or inflammation of lymph nodes], appendicitis, and herpes zoster infection.”

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.

Japan:

Mexico:

Norway:

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

Romania:

Banned certain “lots” or batches of the AstraZeneca shots.

Slovenia:

Updated Oct. 6, 2021: Slovenia has temporarily halted Johnson & Johnson after the stroke death of a 20 year old woman.

South Africa:

Updated Oct. 23, 2021: A study of AstraZeneca vaccine (not used in the U.S.) finds 30% preterm birth rate for pregnant women vs. 0% in the control group. (Study done in women in S. Africa, UK, and Brazil.)

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.

Updated Oct. 6, 2021: Sweden and Denmark have halted use of Moderna in people under age 30 due to increased risk of heart injuries such as myocarditis.

Syria:

Updated Sept. 15, 2023: “As many people worldwide have been vaccinated, more triggered autoimmune bullous diseases have been noticed. We reported a case of new-onset pemphigus Vulgaris after COVID-19 vaccinations…Pemphigus Vulgaris is a rare, fatal, autoimmune disease.” https://www.medscape.com/s/viewarticle/995100

Taiwan (China):

Turkey:

UK:

Updated Dec. 14, 2021: A British study study found people at increased risk of heart inflammation from AstraZeneca (not used in U.S.), Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines.

Update Oct. 13, 2021: Data from the UK finds vaccines are “highly effective,” but effectiveness wanes after as little as 3-4 months.

Update Oct. 23, 2021: A study of AstraZeneca vaccine (not used in the U.S.) finds 30% preterm birth rate for pregnant women vs. 0% in the control group (among women in S. Africa, Brazil, and UK)

Update Sept. 19, 2021: All brands of Covid-19 vaccines are associated in changes in menstrual cycles of women, according to a British study.

Biologically plausible mechanisms linking immune stimulation with menstrual changes include immunological influences on the hormones driving the menstrual cycle or effects mediated by immune cells in the lining of the uterus, which are involved in the cyclical build-up and breakdown of this tissue. Research exploring a possible association between covid-19 vaccines and menstrual changes may also help understand the mechanism.
Menstrual changes after covid-19 vaccination

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.

Update: 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.

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.

United States:

Updated Dec. 30, 2022: A large study conducted in Germany and by the University of Virginia finds mRNA Covid vaccines can trigger shingles outbreaks.

Updated Dec. 29, 2022: Numerous case studies link Covid-19 mRNA vaccines to development of diabetes. Diabetes is also linked to other vaccines.

Updated Oct. 1, 2022: A study further confirms Covid-19 vaccination leads to a small and hopefully temporary change in menstrual cycle length.

Updated June 18, 2022: The FDA flagged the non-mRNA shot Novavax for heart issues similar to the mRNA vaccines, shortly before recommending the okay for Novavax in the US.

Updated May 11, 2022: FDA limits use of Johnson & Johnson vaccine citing risk of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS): blood clots in combination with low levels of blood platelets.

Updated March 12: Multiple studies document vaccine-associated tinnitis, or ringing/noise in one or both ears that can be debilitating.

Updated Feb. 14, 2022: A pathology report on two children who died of heart issues after their second Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine implicates the vaccine as the cause.

Updated Jan. 20, 2022: The FDA has added a warning about immune thrombocytopenia, ITP, to Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine.

Update Jan. 13, 2022: A study finds vaccination impacts and delays women’s periods.

Update Dec. 16, 2021: CDC warns of risk of blood clots, Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS), with Johnson & Johnson vaccine and recommends people get Moderna or Pfizer, instead.

Update Oct. 2021: A study finds link between Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 vaccine and Guillain-Barre paralysis.

Update Nov. 21, 2021: An analysis presented at the American Heart Association and published in the journal Cardiology warns of a “dramatic” increase in heart risk for most people who got Covid-19 RNA vaccine.

Update Oct. 4, 2021: A study by university and NIH scientists in the U.S. finds Pfizer vaccine antibodies disappear after about 7 months in many patients.

Update Sept. 12, 2021: A study of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines finds teenage boys are six times more likely to suffer heart issues from Covid-19 vaccination than from Covid. (However, in both instances, the risk is considered slight.)

Update Sept. 9, 2021: An August 10 study in JAMA Cardiology confirms the previously identified Pfizer vaccine’s myocarditis (heart inflammation) risk in young boys.

Read the study here.

Update Sept. 4, 2021: Acute CNS Demyelination and Multiple Sclerosis: A new study in Journal of Neurology examines possible links between Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, and acute Central Nervous System (CNS) demyelination, including Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

Age ranged from 24 to 64 years old. Four patients were ultimately diagnoses with exacerbation of their stable MS.

Two were diagnosed with new cases of MS.

One was diagnosed with neuromyelitis optica.

Update Aug. 16, 2021: 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.

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

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.

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

Additional reading and studies

A Sept. 2022 analysis by Oxford ethics scientists finds Covid boosters cause “net harm” in young adults.

Nearly every measure finds the Covid infection rate is higher among the vaccinated than among the unvaccinated.

A case study finds suspected link between Ramsay Hunt syndrome and Covid-19 vaccine.

A published pathology report on two children who died of heart issues after their second Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine implicates the vaccine as the cause.

A study finds vaccination impacts and delays women’s periods.

A CDC analysis finds increased risk of Guillain Barre paralysis after Covid vaccination, Dec. 2021

An analysis presented at the American Heart Association and published in the journal Cardiology warns of a “dramatic” increase in heart risk for most people who got Covid-19 RNA vaccine.

US study finds dramatically waned immunity for all 3 vaccines after 6 months: SARS-CoV-2 vaccine protection and deaths among US veterans during 2021

UK study finds no difference in peak viral load between vaccinated and unvaccinated, Oct. 28, 2021: https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1473-3099%2821%2900648-4

Israeli data confirms Pfizer vacine immunity wears off after just a few months in all age groups, Oct. 27, 2021: Waning Immunity after the BNT162b2 Vaccine in Israel

Durability of immune responses to the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine, Sept. 30, 2021: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.30.462488v1.article-info

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184 thoughts on “(UPDATED) Exclusive Summary: Covid-19 Vaccine Concerns”

Ec
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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rooare
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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Richard Greene
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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1. Richard Greene
  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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Anthony Dragunas Jr.
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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1. Shelly
  August 18, 2021 at 5:45 pm
  You should have serious concerns about gardisil. Just sayin.
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2. lawrence falkenstein
  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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3. Seth
  November 22, 2021 at 1:49 pm
  In your response you mention you got “vaccinated” …with one of the Covid jabs? You then go on to state HBP and a recent ‘mild heart attack.’ Are you not putting two and two together at this point? Realize there are so many people who have had the jab and are getting MI’s…..
  ….do not put this garbage into your child and by all means DO NOT get a third poke!
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Ari Goldberg
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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Someday Girl
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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Someday Girl
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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mjc227
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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1. Martha Owens
  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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Rick Solman
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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Marcia
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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Antonio Chaves
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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Antonio Chaves
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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1. rooare
  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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Darnell
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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Gail Finke
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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1. Mary Ann Johnston
  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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  1. Jaye
    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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    1. Joe Cooper
      September 13, 2021 at 8:59 pm
      It’s only forced if you comply. Skip the flight then and drive. Got to get your priorites straight.
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2. Rose Martyn
  October 16, 2021 at 8:24 pm
  The symptoms you describe match very closely what my innocent grandschild experienced after vaccination according to CDC schedule . There is no way that ANY expert (and there were many) that examined would diagnose vaccine injury, Always slappped with the label of autism. Now a teen, with decades of early life development stolen by these Mengele-wanna-be s.
  We have since discovered that the biggest block to communication is severe apraxia. Hmmm… wonder where that came from since he was born of two young strong abstentious parents. Their biggest mistake? They believed the lies of the medical industrial complex. But no more. Now this child who has suffered so much pain and torment in the past is FINALLY making progress toward health and some kind of a life. I share this with you because you must question EVERYTHING the medical business tells you is true. Good news– There are still scientists and doctors who actually care about a profession that tells the truth.
  God bless you (keep praying as this trial does not come from the light of God, it comes from the darkness of Satan)
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Angela Rogereson
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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Chuck in Richmond
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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1. John
  September 14, 2021 at 4:39 pm
  Pharmaceutical companies do not announce all of the side of effects from gadolinium, used in MRI contrast. Why would these mRNA delivery systems be any different?
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Marty Kruse
June 30, 2021 at 4:25 am
Thank you for your courage to speak truth and great detailed reporting!
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Nate Klingenstein
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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Nate Klingenstein
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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1. Marc Authier
  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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  1. Freedom Fighter
    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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    1. Kenny Hixson
      September 9, 2021 at 2:36 am
      The sad thing is the liberal retards in the US don’t care one bit so long as the overall direction of the country is going the way they want it to go – basically down the toilet.
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    2. Kay
      January 14, 2023 at 12:18 pm
      My nephew, early forties, knows (knew) ten people in his age group who have dropped dead. I only know one person, my cousin, who died of a heart attack at 52 post booster, but I hear a lot of tales of serious health events in vaccinated people. It’s impossible to know for sure how many of those are vax-caused, since no one will admit the possibility.
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  2. Blue
    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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    1. rooare
      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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      1. Lora
        September 6, 2021 at 4:10 pm
        Would be curious to know the outcome!
      2. Anna
        September 13, 2021 at 5:01 pm
        Go to RENZ Attorney for latest result in deaths, by the whistleblower.
    2. Professor g
      July 27, 2021 at 4:10 pm
      Can you send me link to this info. I want to track info.
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      1. Lisa
        September 7, 2021 at 12:30 am
        From America’s Frontline Doctors
        ~Whistleblower Testimony: 45,000 Deaths Caused by the Vaccines .. page 41….
        From the testimony ….
        ” In her expert opinion, VAERS under-reports deaths
        caused by the Vaccines by a conservative factor of at least 5. As of July 9, 2021, VAERS reported 9,048 deaths associated with the Vaccines. Jane Doe queried data from CMS medical claims, and has determined that the number of deaths occurring with 3 days of injection with the Vaccines exceeds those reported by VAERS by a factor of at least 5, indicating that the true number of deaths caused by the Vaccines is at least 45,000.”
        file:///C:/Users/sixto/AppData/Local/Packages/Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe/TempState/Downloads/M-for-PI-file-stamped.pdf
        https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/legal/tro/
  3. NIKITA
    September 15, 2021 at 12:32 am
    Go to http://www.covid19exposed.net and click DOWNLOAD SPECIAL REPORT
    This research team has the largest database in the United States dedicated to exposing the vaccines, the virus, the pandemic and the perpetrators. You will be downloading and reading the 236 page VAX-CON 21 REPORT. Do it right away. And type in the whole http://www.covid19exposed.net web address manually. Do not use a Google search. They are blocking us. You can also reach us through our website email.
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2. Rick
  June 15, 2022 at 11:09 am
  Pfizer’s lawyers have clarified that the drug administered for the CV-19 virus is not defined as a “vaccine”–it is in legal parlance: a “prototype.” Although this is a legal tactic in order to defuse potential lawsuits (imagine the scale of a class action suit!), it also reveals exactly what Pfizer and the other drug manufacturers knew from the start: It is an experimental prototype drug and was administered under the Emergency Authorization act, and as such, all test subjects were not making the decision to jab with informed consent. Con-current with what appears as the malice of forethought, the Media acted as an accomplice insofar that the media didn’t make it known that an “experimental” drug trial was a risky proposition and that adverse reactions were predictable(as was mortality.)
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  1. JungianINTP
    September 17, 2023 at 3:48 am
    Rick,
    Thusly, my name for it :
    Experimental Gene Injection.
    /R
    P.S.
    Root Cause of ALL of that bad medicine :
    — Profit Driven Medical Mafia —
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Jim33707
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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1. Terry Quinn
  September 9, 2021 at 7:13 pm
  A relative of mine pointed out that even the CDC says that people die from the COVID-19 vaccine. So I looked at the data, and it was true, that 7,218 people have died after taking the COVID-19 vaccine. Not all of those were from the vaccine, but let’s say it was. This was after administering 369 million doses of the vaccines. Then I looked into how many people who died from COVID-19 that didn’t take the vaccine. And it turns out that 15 times more people die from COVID-19 if they do not take the vaccine, than those that did take the vaccine. If you combine these two ratios, it comes down that you are 75 million times more likely to die from COVID without taking the vaccine, than with taking the vaccine. Unless I’ve made a mistake, I’m taking the vaccine because I have a 75 million times more likely to live than what would happen to me if I don’t take the vaccine.
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  1. Anonymous
    September 12, 2021 at 7:09 pm
    Without even bringing the distributions and data into this conversion, gross misapplication of Bayesian probability, the assumptions to try to do these back-of-envelope calculations, and a basic check of deaths of unvaccinated due to COVID versus death attributed to vaccinations, I cannot even decipher how you come up with 7.5 * 10^7 times greater probability with your calculations.
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    1. humdrum
      November 15, 2021 at 10:54 am
      Don’t even bother, its just some propaganda algorithm bot.
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  2. Filipe Oliveira
    September 13, 2021 at 12:47 am
    sure ur numbers of deaths are since the begining of the pandemic when you should calculate since the 1st inoculation for u have a fare result, or else no use on those statistics.
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    1. Dopo Morte
      October 20, 2021 at 6:06 pm
      https://medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GROUP1=CAT&EVENTS=ON&VAX=COVID19
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  3. Carrie
    September 13, 2021 at 10:09 am
    So with all of the vax deaths being less than c19 deaths , that makes it okay to be on the market? That makes it okay to push the agenda? I think not. If you yourself want to have the jab that’s fine, but it should not be pushed .
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    1. Kristine Hancock
      October 1, 2021 at 8:40 am
      Exactly!! The survival rate of the virus for age 60+ is 99.6%!!! I’ll take my chances with the virus.. I’ve never had the flu, never had a fever, haven’t even had a cold since I can’t even remember. I eat healthy, get a little exercise gardening, take a multivitamin everyday along with extra C and D and Elderberry syrup daily. I’ll be 70 in January!!
      Take care of your body and your body will take care of you!!!
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      1. Danny
        October 12, 2021 at 3:31 am
        You are completely right. If one doesn’t care about his body (cigarettes, junk food etc.) the body will get sick sooner or later. But otherwise, if you take care, take your Vitamin D and trust in your body you won’t have to take this silly vaccine. Human kind survived all this thousands of years, so it can’t be totally wrong, can it?
        Here in Switzerland they are completely crazy and force you to take the stab like we were in Germany 1941! Don’t let the government force you into this!!
  4. Chris
    September 13, 2021 at 2:52 pm
    This is patently incorrect. For your hypothesis to have any legs, all PCR testing would have to be 100% accurate and even the NYT reported it’s likely 90% inaccurate.
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  5. Data2
    September 13, 2021 at 5:14 pm
    Please stop. You have absolutely no idea how to do basic math based on your statements much less statistical math.
    In data, there are “key words” that matter when mathematics is put in to context.
    1st- doses is not the same as people.
    2nd – a person only fits in a specific subset of the actual people represented in both data sets.
    You cannot compare a subset with a specific “risk calculation” to a whole and get what you’re looking for.
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  6. Thinker
    September 13, 2021 at 6:23 pm
    CDC Considers people NOT vaccinated when they are less than 2wks after the 2nd shot. Lies, blatant lies and statistics.
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    1. Phil
      November 18, 2021 at 8:32 pm
      But CDC considers you are fully vaccinated two week after the 2nd shot. Now watch CDC change their definition once the booster rally takes off and you are only fully vaxed two weeks after the booster!
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  7. Richie Morningstar
    September 13, 2021 at 10:29 pm
    Not everyone on the planet will get Covid.They have 0 chance of dying or getting sick. By taking the shot they definietly risk getting sick or worse for no reason at all. Your formula didnt include that factor. Hope this helps somebody, if it doesnt
    forgive me. And thanks Mrs. Attkisson for letting us respond .
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  8. John
    September 14, 2021 at 4:35 pm
    Unfortunately Terry, your source of Covid related deaths is questionable. If you review some of the death certificates, there are those with up to 4 different co-morbilities, including gun shots, but as long as there was a diagnosis of Covid, the death was ruled “Covid”. Hospitals were paid a bonus for Covid caused deaths.
    Take the drug (not a “vaccine”, btw if you do a little research and please, not from reality tv), and may God be with you.
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    1. Susan Crane
      November 9, 2021 at 10:10 am
      Totally true!
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  9. Richard Greene
    September 15, 2021 at 1:37 pm
    The article is about short term adverse side effects from the vaccine, not COVID deaths.
    The last VAERS report on Friday, September 10, was 799,000 reported adverse side effects.
    Studies of VAERS suggest no more than 10% of adverse effects ever get reported — and probably much less than 10%.
    The 799,000 included 14,506 deaths and 2.15% and 18,439 permanent disabilities.
    Some percentage of them can be attributed to the vaccines, and others can not be proven to be caused by the vaccines.
    Let’s say 50% and 50%.
    But when you consider the small percentage of adverse side effects ever reported, the REAL number of vaccine-caused deaths and disabilities is likely to be significantly higher than reported. to VAERS.
    This is the most dangerous vaccine in US history, by far, with the fastest deterioration of vaccine induced antibodies ever.
    And the long term adverse side effects remain unknown,
    This article is only listing short term adverse side effects.
    It should day that in the first sentence, but does not.
    Concerning deaths from COVID itself:
    They were a tiny percentage of infections in 2020 after the initial death spike in the Spring (excluding nursing homes) BEFORE there were any vaccines.
    :Less than 5 deaths per 1,000 for people outside of nursing homes (where the death rate was much higher.
    So if the COVID survival rate was 99.5% outside of nursing homes, BEFORE there was a vaccine. … That means even a PERFECT vaccine with no deaths as side effects, could only improve the survival rate by 0.5 percentage points.
    During the two month drug trials for Pfizer and Moderna, before EUA, with about 40,000 people total, roughly 99% of the subjects did not get any COVID symptoms.
    The difference between subjects getting placebos, and subjects getting real vaccines averaged about 1% for both vaccines combines
    So the absolute risk reduction from the vaccines averaged only 1%.
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    1. PC
      October 18, 2021 at 10:33 pm
      Yes, and yet they reported only the relative risk reduction, which was about 95%. And that was blasted all over the news and everyone believed it.
      This is a favorite trick of the drug companies — report risk reduction as relative, side effect risk as absolute.
      So the vaccines provided a tiny benefit, which declines within a couple of months. And how long will the benefit from boosters last? Another couple of months? The side effect risk will start to surpass the covid risk, if frequent boosters are required.
      Yet people have been convinced they must be vaccinated, or else risk almost certain death from covid.
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    2. Karena
      November 21, 2021 at 10:57 am
      Well Explained Richard and thank you- however so many people choose to have an emotional response to the narrow bits of info they hear vs having the desire nor capability to CONTEXTULIZE all of the data that is our there, albeit much of it being censored by the most powerful and influential voices- Sadly.
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  10. Bully Pilpul
    September 17, 2021 at 4:23 pm
    VAERS lists 14,506 Deaths and 675,591 Injuries in the US as of September 3rd, and Eudra-Vigilance, the European Union’s Database of Adverse Drug Reactions, lists 24,526 Deaths and 2,317,495 Injuries as of September 11th. Many of those approximately 3 million Injuries are devastating, and many will lead to a much shortened lifespan.
    https://openvaers.com/covid-data
    https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/24526-deaths-2317495-injuries-following-covid-shots-reported-in-european-unions-database-of-adverse-drug-reactions/
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  11. Lily Anne
    October 3, 2021 at 10:19 pm
    Yeah but they’re also not considering you vaccinated until 2 weeks after your last booster shot, and considering something like 60% of hospital patients have had at least 1 shot and have covid, dont you wonder how many adverse reaction deaths are not actually counted as vaccinated deaths?
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  12. Harvey
    October 4, 2021 at 11:46 am
    You are out of your mind. Your calculations are not valid. The published rate of survival for almost everyone is over 99.9% if less than 70 years old…and that is if the person with COVID-19 does not get ANY treatment. Do some independent research and stop listening to the fake news and media who are suppressing the true science and doctors who are trying to warn the public!!!
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    1. Susan Crane
      November 9, 2021 at 9:59 am
      Exactly right✅
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  13. David Stadulis
    October 7, 2021 at 8:45 am
    Terry,
    Most drugs/vaccines are stopped after 25-50 reported deaths. We have 7-10K reported in VAERS. We have a whistleblower from the CDC who says more like 48k dead. But let’s just say i is low at 5k dead. That’s 100x the previous threshold upper limit of 50 dead to stop a drug or vaccine.
    What you are saying is you are willing to sacrifice another person’s, otherwise healthy, life as a byproduct so you can feel safer. I called that extremely selfish. Reminds me of a scene in one of my kids favorite movies. Maybe you’ve seen it. https://youtu.be/hiKuxfcSrEU
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    1. Susan Crane
      November 9, 2021 at 10:00 am
      Bravo wells said and absolutely true.
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  14. KipK
    October 7, 2021 at 9:46 pm
    Wrong. It’s just the opposite.
    If you get off mainstream media you will see it’s true.
    As of October 2021 the CDC admits to 15,000 deaths from the vaccine.
    In a normal year there are 100 deaths from the flu vaccine. This year there’s been over 80,000. Smell something fishy?
    And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
    Don’t take it!!
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  15. Tom
    October 9, 2021 at 10:17 am
    Only problem is that protection from severe covid wanes from two months until it disappears at eight months. So you not only have the risk of dying from covid, but you add the risk of dying from vaccines.
    By contrast, if you have a plan to treat covid early with antivirals, you have far less risk than if you merely get vaccinated–about 20% of the risk for those who have no such plan.
    The vaccines are safe and effective…for pharma, which has bullet-proof immunity from adverse events lawsuits.
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  16. Ian
    October 28, 2021 at 8:49 pm
    It’s the long term effects and the boosters every5-6 months that are a concern.
    Let’s see how many die in the next 2-3 years. I will wait that long in self-isolation to make sure.
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  17. Susan Crane
    November 9, 2021 at 9:28 am
    The CDC was marking vaccinated people as unvaccinated people if they died within 72 hours after the vaccines they were marked as unvaccinated. Also in Feb of 2020 the CDC had to correct their death numbers as it was updated to only 6% of reported deaths actually died from Covid19 the rest were of other natural deaths. They we’re busted for reporting every death car accident heart attacks as Covid19 deaths. The influenza flu kills 220,000 a year and last year first time in history it killed nobody. CDC says Covid19 has a survival rate of 99.9% for 70 and under a better survival rate than the influenza flu yet we don’t shutdown the country. The vaccines are dangerous and people who are being vaccinated are going to the hospital that’s why nurses and doctors refuse to take the vaccine. My BFF is a nurse who answered hospital phone call and says the people coming in our the ones who are being vaccinated yet if adverse effects happen within 72 hours after shots hospitals protocol from WHO says to mark them as unvaccinated. Their are many cures for Covid19 yet the protocol for hospitals is to use Remdensivir a drug that shuts down and drowns kidneys into complete failure. 1000 doctors suing the WOrld health organization for the protocol killing people my father was one of them. A death rate that could have been prevented as other drugs saving live around the world yet those drugs are forbidden by WHO drugs approved for use yet now banned.
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  18. Barbara
    November 21, 2021 at 4:54 pm
    Checkout the info from the American Heart Association
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  19. Sec
    December 16, 2021 at 9:00 am
    But the cases of deaths and serious side effects(even amputations, and heart attacks etc), are way underreported. A surgeon friend couldn’t even get her own myocarditis reported after the vaccine!
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  20. Kate
    December 16, 2021 at 10:52 am
    That’ s assuming you are one of the ones who get a serious case. Almost half are aymptomatic.
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  21. Riki Tiki Tavi
    June 15, 2022 at 11:00 am
    We may never know the actual death count due to various inaccuracies in reporting-anomalies and flaws with VAERS tabulation practices. I also know of several people who received the jabs who now have various symptoms and yet have not reported these new health issues to VAERS. It seems many folks choose to deny the possible connection, even though the adverse reactions occurred within weeks or months of getting the jabs!
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  22. Stephen Triesch
    October 9, 2022 at 3:00 pm
    “you are 75 million times more likely to die from COVID without taking the vaccine, than with taking the vaccine”
    The last time I checked, somewhere between 6 and 7 million people have died from Covid worldwide, including the 11 or 12 pre-vax months. Your claim makes absolutely no mathematical sense. According to the figure that you cite, 7,218 people have died from the vaccine. But, according to you, if only ONE person died from the vaccine, 75 MILLION unvaccinated people would have died from Covid. If only 10 people died from the vaccine, 750 million unvaccinated people would have died of Covid. If only 100 people died from the vaccine, 7.5 billion unvaccinated people – more than the entire population of the world, vaccinated or not, would have died of Covid.
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  23. Rich
    June 15, 2024 at 12:45 pm
    The cdc ,nih ,fda all get funding from big pharma ( bribe is a better term)..They have lied from the beginning..They lied about repurposed prescription drugs (hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin ) which would have stopped the pandemic in its its tracks…This is about money and greed at the cost of thousands of lives…Read the history of vaccines over the last hundred years plus…”WAKE UP” We must be united against this kind of evil…”WE THE PEOPLE”
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2. NIKITA
  September 15, 2021 at 12:31 am
  Go to http://www.covid19exposed.net and click DOWNLOAD SPECIAL REPORT
  This research team has the largest database in the United States dedicated to exposing the vaccines, the virus, the pandemic and the perpetrators. You will be downloading and reading the 236 page VAX-CON 21 REPORT. Do it right away. And type in the whole http://www.covid19exposed.net web address manually. Do not use a Google search. They are blocking us. You can also reach us through our website email.
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Summary by safety concern

General

Acute CNS Demyelination and Multiple Sclerosis

Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE)

Appendicitis

Blood Clots and Blood Disorders

Capillary Leak Syndrome (Clarkson’s disease)

Covid Infection

Diabetes

Frail, Elderly

Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)

Graves Disease Autoimmune Disorder

Heart Issues (see also Blood Clots)

Hepatitis C Reactivation and Death

Herpes Zoster Infection

Lymphadenopathy

Manufacturing Problems

Menstrual Cycle Changes

Multiple Sclerosis, an immune disorder

Paralysis: Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, Bell’s Palsy & Other Paralysis

Pemphigus Vulgaris autoimmune disorder

Pregnant Women

Previously-infected

Respiratory Infections

Shingles

Tinnitis

Transplant Rejection

Waning Immunity, Breakthrough Infections

Summary by vaccine

Novavax

Pfizer and Moderna

Transplant Rejection

Menstrual Cycle Changes

Acute CNS Demyelination and Multiple Sclerosis

Capillary Leak Syndrome:

Waning Immunity, Breakthrough Infections

Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)

Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE)

Guillain-Barre autoimmune paralysis and Ramsay Hunt syndrome

Blood Clots

Heart inflammation

Frail, elderly

Graves Disease

Shingles

Novavax

Johnson and Johnson

AstraZeneca (not given in the U.S.)

Capillary Leak Syndrome

Summary by country

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