Two rare Covid vaccine side-effects detected in global study of 99M

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/23/two-very-rare-covid-vaccine-side-effects-detected-in-global-study-of-99-million

by c420 • 2 years ago

18 10 2 years ago

theguardian.com

bediger40002• 2 years ago

The study of more than 99 million people ... also confirmed how rare known vaccine complications are, with researchers confirming that the benefits of Covid-19 vaccines still “vastly outweigh the risks”.

I'm sure that anti-vaxxers will still quote this article when waxing incoherently about "the jab" or "the clot shot".

postalrat• 2 years ago

It's best to be honest up front about possible risks.

tguvot2• 2 years ago

What is the relative risk for walking in city? Public should be aware

defrost• 2 years ago

Adverse effects from vaccines are possible, the risk far less than not taking vaccine.

Social media echo chambers and politicized pressers aside, that was consistently the message throughout.

The challenge was sifting RealDoctors™ from lab coat draping snake oil merchents on overdrive.

avian• 2 years ago

I guess this is the study?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02644...

As far as I understand, they used the 42 day window to associate the side-effect with the vaccine.

Have there been any longer term studies, beyond 3 months after vaccination?

asimpleusecase• 2 years ago

These study’s depend on reported side effects - and those reports require doctors to know about and go through the reporting process. However, few care to assign negative outcomes as a direct result of a vaccine. The argument goes that it is impossible to “prove” the vaccine caused the problem so it is just an unfounded correlation. There are really no incentives for doctors to track and make such reports.

During COVID I personally knew lots of people who had absolutely no issues with the vaccine and no bad outcomes. I did know a few who had a blood clot, developed long term fatigue, and in one case developed acute pancreatitis and was hospitalised for a couple of weeks. In the few cases where friends had negative outcomes after the vaccine none of their doctors reported those adverse outcomes due to the vaccine.

So those few friends came away feeling like they were negatively impacted by the vaccine and no one was willing to recognise it. Then they become part of the popular mummer about the risk of vaccines while official results like this show how safe the same vaccines are.

I don’t really see how to resolve this. There are no real incentives to report adverse reactions outside of a clinical study. And there are indeed totally unrelated incidents that happen around many medical treatments and procedures. How is the average person supposed to sort that out.

It seems like it provides a large space for distrust to develop .

Two rare Covid vaccine side-effects detected in global study of 99M

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