NewYork Times vaccine harms

Thousands (or is it millions) believe covid vaccines harmed them

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/health/covid-vaccines-side-effects.html

May 3, 2024

Case study, 37 year old woman

Fit and well

Within minutes of getting the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine,

felt pain racing from her left arm up to her ear and down to her fingertips.

Within days, she was unbearably sensitive to light and struggled to remember simple facts.

Now, + 3 years

Diagnosed with brain damage, cannot work, drive or stand for long periods of time.

‘devastation of what this has done to my life, and how much I’ve lost’

As of April 2024, over 13,000 vaccine-injury compensation claims filed with the federal government

19% have been reviewed

47% deemed eligible for compensation

https://www.hrsa.gov/cicp/cicp-data

12 claims paid out, average of $3,600

Akiko Iwasaki, immunologist, vaccine expert, Yale University

people who say they have post-vaccination injuries are

“just completely ignored and dismissed and gaslighted,”

Dr. Janet Woodcock, retired, FDA

some recipients, uncommon but “serious” and “life-changing” reactions beyond those described by federal agencies.

“I feel bad for those people,”

“I believe their suffering should be acknowledged, that they have real problems, and they should be taken seriously.”

“I’m disappointed in myself,”

“I did a lot of things I feel very good about, but this is one of the few things I feel I just didn’t bring it home.”

Article then comments on disparate US health care systems

No central repository of vaccine recipients

Government’s compensation fund, officially recognizes few side effects for Covid vaccines.

And vaccine supporters, including federal officials, worry that even a whisper of possible side effects feeds into misinformation spread by a vitriolic anti-vaccine movement.

Patients who believe they experienced serious side effects

say they have received little support or acknowledgment.

SB, 54, nurse practitioner, (man)

New York City

ever since his first Covid shot, merely standing up sent his heart racing, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome

stinging pain in his eyes, mouth and genitals, which has abated, and tinnitus, which has not.

AF

“I can’t get the government to help me,”

“I am told I’m not real.

I’m told I’m rare.

I’m told I’m coincidence.”

RF, 49, physical therapist, (woman)

Seattle

Bell's palsy

dramatic facial rash

shingles

RF reported it to federal databases twice.

“I thought for sure someone would reach out, but no one ever did,”

Interviews with 30 people

Neurological, autoimmune, cardiovascular.

All said they had been turned away by physicians, told their symptoms were psychosomatic, or labeled anti-vaccine by family and friends

BC, doctor, (man)

tinnitus and racing heart lasted about a week after each shot.

GP, doctor, (man)

loud whooshing sound in his ears had accompanied every moment since his first shot,

entreaties to colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to explore the phenomenon, tinnitus, had led nowhere.

“If they have done studies, those studies should be published,”

CDC recognises

Agency has documented only four serious but rare side effects

Johnson & Johnson vaccine, Guillain Barre, blood clotting disorder

mRNA vaccines, heart inflammation, or myocarditis

Anaphylaxis

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, director, C.D.C.’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.

agency’s systems for monitoring vaccine safety are “pretty close” to ideal, he said.

The C.D.C. has said there were no confirmed deaths related to myocarditis, but in fact there have been several accounts of deaths reported post-vaccination.