Posted on 12/10/2020 7:56:32 AM PST by Red Badger
Four trial participants who received the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine experienced facial paralysis, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA said the issue should be monitored as the jab becomes more widely available.
The potentially concerning cases were revealed after the US drug regulator published an analysis of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine ahead of a meeting to consider emergency use authorization for the jab in the United States.
According to the documents, Bell’s palsy, a form of temporary facial paralysis, was reported by four participants during phase 3 trials. The individuals had been administered the jab, and no members of the placebo group experienced similar adverse effects.
The condition resembles a stroke, with most sufferers watching helplessly as one side of their face droops and their muscles go limp. In some rare situations, both sides of the face may become paralyzed. It is unclear what causes Bell’s palsy, although the temporary paralysis usually goes away on its own.
However, the FDA claimed that the frequency of the health issue is “consistent with the expected background rate in the general population,” and added that there was no clear evidence linking the coronavirus vaccine to the unpleasant medical condition. Still, the federal regulator recommended “surveillance for cases of Bell’s palsy with deployment of the vaccine into larger populations.”
The FDA noted the “numerical imbalance” of Bell’s palsy cases among the vaccine and placebo groups, but said there were no other “non-serious adverse events” that showed a similar pattern.
According to the documents, side effects are common but appear to be minor. Out of the trial participants, 84 percent experienced some kind of reaction. After receiving the jab, 63 percent of trial subjects reported fatigue and 55 percent said they suffered from headaches. Chills were reported by 32 percent of participants, 24 percent complained of joint pain and 14 percent developed a fever.
Overall, the jab appears to have received good marks from the FDA. In its report, the regulator said that the two-dose vaccine is about 50 percent effective even after just the first injection. The vaccine is believed to be 95 percent effective after the second dose, administered three weeks later. The FDA also found that the jab reduced the risk of severe Covid-19 symptoms after the first dose.
On Tuesday, the United Kingdom became the first country in the world to begin administering the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to the general population.
Vaccine Tracing... they may as shove a tracer chip up your ass.
Well, it won’t bother Nancy Pelosi.
It will not be completely safe until a communist regime takes over and they declare that everyone has to have the jab except their leaders, of course.
what a relief that science/government has discovered the concept of “the expected background rate in the general population . . . “
lol. yeah, that botox saturated face hasn’t moved since the 1990’s.
So, let me get this straight.
The virus has about a 99% recovery rate.
Most people experience mild symptoms.
There’s a variety of medications out there to treat problem cases.
A vaccine requires two shots that will evoke a tremendous immune response, maybe even something permanent like a Bell’s Palsy.
I just had a shingles shot and I took my flu shot.
Right now, and I’m a doctor, I’m not thinking of taking this.
Russia Times article. Financed by Russian government.
Even they report the facts from time to time..................
Every drug commercial I see on tv has a disclaimer to cover a myriad of side effects, some even list possibility of death and I don’t see anyone getting their panties in a wad over those. Its Rediculous to think this one will have none. Took the new shingles vax recently and it had flu like symptoms for a couple of days....I’ve had shingles and I would recommend the vax and the side effects over the virus....I wouldn’t wish that crap on almost anybody.
So you get a second dose...And we don’t know how long that is good for.
The FDA is an entity. It can't claim anything.
The claim was made by some dingbat bureaucrat-technocrat that has been hiding in the bureaucracy for decades.
This alleged vaccine seems to target the nervous system — Bell’s palsy, that nasty spinal meningitis-type inflammation, etc. And then there’s the anaphylactic reaction of a handful of medical personnel in England given the shot. Watch now for the media to initiate a full-court press, “unproven conspiracy theories,” “anecdotal exaggerations,” etc.
Still 300+ millions Americans have NOT gotten CV-19 or died from it.
Are you series? Nobody is getting anything up that tight ass.
So Pelosi has been taking the vaccine for years, who knew.
So true
RT is Russia Today. Do you expect a Russian news source to be promoting stories of things favorable to the USA vaccine, when Russia has its own vaccine?
I believe none of it.
Our neighbor is an advanced nurse practitioner and and very pro vaccine. But, she said she isn’t taking this one. Just sayin’..................
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