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People vaccinated for Covid have increased risk of neurological diseases – study

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Data from almost 100 million people compares the expected and observed incidents of side effects.

A big data study of 99 million people across eight countries showed greater than expected incidence of side effects from various Covid-19 vaccines, the Global Vaccine Data Network (GVDN) said on Monday.

The study, originally published in the medical journal Vaccine on February 12, looked at 13 neurological, blood, and heart-related conditions, called “adverse events of special interest.” Researchers looked at 99,068,901 vaccinated individuals from ten sites in eight countries.

“The size of the population in this study increased the possibility of identifying rare potential vaccine safety signals,” said Kristyna Faksova, the lead author of the study from the Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, Denmark.

According to the GVDN, the study observed a greater incidence of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the heart sac) than expected among those who took the Pfizer/BioNTech (BNT162b2) and Moderna (mRNA-1273) shots.

Moderna’s vaccine also had a higher rate of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM, inflammation and swelling in the brain and spinal cord), with seven observed events compared to two expected within 42 days of the first shot.

Safety signals for myocarditis were “consistently identified” following the first three doses of either mRNA shot, with the highest ratio after the second dose. Signals for pericarditis also appeared following the first and fourth doses of mRNA-1273 and were also observed after a third dose of the Oxford/Astra Zeneca (ChAdOx1) viral vector vaccine.

Recipients of ChAdOx1 had 190 observed events of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) compared to the expected 76, and 69 observed instances of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST, a type of blood clot in the brain) compared to the expected 21, the study has shown.

The GVDN has made the results available to the public on its interactive data dashboards, along with a warning not to read too much into correlations and that the vaccines are both safe and effective.

“By making the data dashboards publicly available, we are able to support greater transparency, and stronger communications to the health sector and public,” GVDN co-director Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris said.

The study was part of the GVDN’s Global COVID Vaccine Safety Project and was funded entirely by a $10 million grant from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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  1. Did you both miss the sentence above which reads:
    “The GVDN has made the results available to the public on its interactive data dashboards, along with a warning not to read too much into correlations and that the vaccines are both safe and effective.”
    Also the GVND is funded by the CDC and centred on the University of Auckland so it is surprising that such previously despised organisations are now cherry-picked to support a conspiracy narrative.

    • Research has been undergoing for while about liver damage post COVID vaccines.
      A letter to the editor of the Journal of Hepatology (Shroff et a. 2021) concludes:
      “We emphasize that our intent is not to promote vaccine hesitancy. The overwhelming benefits of these and other highly efficacious vaccines in the setting of a global pandemic greatly surpass any potential risk of liver injury that may exist.”
      An article in Hepatology (Efe et al. 2022) says in its discussion:
      “We do not discourage SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. The overall benefits of vaccination during the pandemic clearly outweigh the risks of liver injury and other rare side effects. The number of patients described here is minisccule compared to the population vaccinated.“
      Another article in The Journal of Hepatology (Uzon et al. 2023) says in its introduction:
      “Since the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines, potential adverse events have been reported. Most of them are mild and include local symptoms, fatigue, fever, headache, and myalgia. Rarely, COVID-19 vaccination has been associated with autoimmune disorders such as myocarditis, immune thrombocytic thrombocytopaenia, and Guillain-Barré syndrome. In addition, several recent reports have described hepatitis following COVID-19 vaccination as a very rare event …”
      Although there are adverse effects from the vaccines they should not be over-egged.
      It would be useful if Harry Jensen cites his sources.

      • You can regurgitate all ” scientific litterature” about vax and its so called ” approval.
        The fact is that professionals in many countries still are not really free to say that the MRN “vax” ( but it does not answer to the definition of vax: see sasha latypova on substack) is poisonous and life threatening. Many risk to be villified, such as Prof Raoult and many others or simply get an interdiction to exercise or publish. Lawfare is the weapon

  2. It is tragic that we are all left to wait to see how this all unfolds, but I sure hope the individual patient Medical records in 6 – 10 years time will still be accessible as more and more issues are identified.

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