COVID Vaccines: Inside the Study that Shook the CDC

Two teenagers died shortly after COVID-19 vaccination, experts reported in a study published Feb. 14, 2022. Within hours, federal officials scrambled to respond, worried the paper would harm their efforts to promote COVID-19 vaccines, internal emails show.

“This is important because this report has significant implications for CDC and FDA’s vaccine safety and policy discussions,” Dr. Sarah Reagan-Steiner, a medical officer at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), wrote on Feb. 17, 2022.

The CDC and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have repeatedly promoted widespread COVID-19 vaccination and downplayed confirmed and possible side effects of the vaccines.

Another CDC official claimed that not including CDC scientists as co-authors of the paper called into question the ethics of the experts who wrote it. The agency rapidly submitted a rebuttal to the journal that published the study

Combined with comments from two of the authors of the study, the emails shed fresh light on the paper—the first to detail examinations of American children who died with heart inflammation after COVID-19 vaccination—and its aftermath. The paper set off a firestorm within the CDC that led to attempts by agency officials to overrule the medical examiners who examined the boys.

The myocarditis manifested unusually in the teenage boys, Dr. James Gill, the chief medical examiner for the state of Connecticut, and two other experts wrote in the study. They said the injuries were similar to cardiomyopathy, which is often caused by extreme stressors.

Thx ... Dr Makis is doing the Lord’s work, tracking and reporting all of these cardiac/jab findings.

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@37mule

“50% of myocarditis sufferers die in 5 years 75% in 10 yrs”

It’s only going to accelerate. If you had really bad fatigue after the shots, you probably had subclinical myocarditis

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(DummyMoms least saddened.)

Approximately 25% of the populati9n has a PFO or Patent Foramen Ovale. This is a hole between the right and left atrium that allows blood to bypass the lungs. Problem is, a PFO allows blood clots to bypass the lungs and go directly to the brain.

The 25% is an average, consisting of 30% rate in people who die young and 20% in the elderly.

Ordinarily, most people never know if they have a PFO.

Patent Foramen Ovale-associated Stroke and COVID-19 Vaccination

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10311394/

COVID-19 infection has been associated with paradoxical thromboembolism through a patent foramen ovale (PFO) and ischaemic stroke. Such events have not been reported after COVID-19 vaccination. The aim of the present study was to investigate PFO-associated stroke during the mass COVID-19 vaccination in Slovenia.

Of the 28 patients presenting with PFO-associated stroke, 12 patients (42.9%) were vaccinated prior to the event, of whom nine were women and three were men, aged between 21 and 70 years. Stroke occurred within 35 days after vaccination in six patients (50%). Clinical presentation included motor dysphasia, paresis, vertigo, ataxia, paraesthesia, headache, diplopia and hemianopia. At hospital discharge, 11 patients (91.6%) had at least one residual ischaemic lesion. Conclusion: A temporal coincidence of COVID-19 vaccination and PFO-associated stroke has been described. A potential cause–effect relationship may only be hypothesised.

COVID-19 has been associated with coagulopathy with increased risk of venous thrombosis, which may, in the presence of PFO, lead to paradoxical embolism and ischaemic stroke.[5–9] Given that thrombotic events, including vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia and formation of myocardial microthrombi, have been documented also after COVID-19 vaccines approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), we chose to investigate the occurrence of PFO-associated stroke during the mass COVID-19 vaccination in Slovenia.

COVID-19 has been associated with coagulopathy with increased risk of venous thrombosis, which may, in the presence of PFO, lead to paradoxical embolism and ischaemic stroke.

I have not personally known someone who has died from Covid (it still has killed less than 0.5% of the US population, despite its 1% case fatality rate). But I did speak with someone whose cousin died of blood clots caused by Covid.

As the article you linked pointed out, despite the fact that the majority of the population had received at least one dose of vaccine, they only had six patients (out of 28) who had a stroke within 35 days of vaccination. Eleven of the patients did not have Covid and were not vaccinated. The authors said that "A potential cause–effect relationship may only be hypothesised." However, what it looks like to me is that they really did not find a difference between the rate of PFO associated stroke that occurred in temporal proximity with either Covid or Covid vaccination.

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