Posted on 03/29/2025 4:22:34 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
More empathy—and investment—is needed to address vaccine-related injuries, says Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire.
Corbett-Helaire, assistant professor of immunology and infectious diseases, was one of the developers of the COVID-19 vaccine.
She also talked about her June 11 opinion piece in STAT, in which she wrote that she believes more empathy is needed for people who report experiencing long-term side effects from the COVID-19 vaccine.
“People who speak out about how they feel after getting a vaccine should not be dismissed or assumed to be anti-vaxxers,” she wrote. “For starters, they deserve empathy from their doctors and other health care providers, as well as from those who set and drive vaccine policy.”
In the STAT piece, Corbett-Helaire listed concrete steps that everyone in the vaccine field—herself included—should take. These steps include establishing a better system through which people can report vaccine-related injuries; creating and widely distributing guidelines for health care providers to better communicate with and care for patients who experience these injuries; and conducting more and deeper scientific investigations into these injuries. Such investigations, she added on the podcast, would not hamper further development of vaccines. Rather, they would further the quality and effectiveness of vaccines, as well as bolster public trust.
“People who feel they have been harmed by a vaccine do not need to have the science immediately explained to them. What they first need is to be heard, and then assured that science will follow,” Corbett-Helaire wrote.
Effectively following through on reports about vaccine harms requires investment, according to Corbett-Helaire. “The only way that science can move forward is if it’s strategically funded,” she said on the podcast.
(Excerpt) Read more at hsph.harvard.edu ...
For starters, they chose to be vaxxed in the first place. Ping!
“For starters, they chose to be vaxxed in the first place. Ping!”
Many were forced to take the VAXX in order to keep their employment. Others feared being ostracized by their loving fellow liberals. And some believed the safe and effective lie.
“”Vaccine injuries deserve more attention””
Vaccine crimes deserve more attention
There, fixed it
Ditto! And some who volunteered to get the vax because of their faith in science and trust inherent trust in vaccine efficacy ALSO ended up injured. So they shouldn’t be dismissed as homeopath kooks, and gaslit about their struggles.
I remember a working class guy saying, “Some people say it’s dangerous, but my children are not going to lose a roof over their heads.” Many were forced to take the vax by threats to their housing, jobs, family members etc.
MRNA vax kills and injures.
Articles like this (and I’ve seen a few lately) miss the point.
The authors always assume that the problem is that scientists just aren’t communicating effectively or with empathy. But there is another issue they overlook completely: the fact that antivaxxers are extremely good at creating antivax rhetoric. Their rhetoric is not random: they specifically create the rhetoric to undermine the scientific message. The antivaxxers who create the rhetoric are, in most cases, highly educated in a STEM field and understand the science well enough to be able to create lies that the average person cannot distinguish from real science.
Until the scientific community comes up with a good counter to targeted, specifically-written antivax propaganda, we’re always going to be fighting this battle.
Another aspect of the problem is the deterioration of our educational system. Teaching kids nonsense like “Heather has two mommies” at the expense of science and mathematics has created a couple of generations of people who are completely unable to think critically or to discern unscientific nonsense from real science. Antivaxxers take a lot of advantage of people who were failed by the education system.
Many were forced to take the vax by threats to their housing, jobs, family members etc.
——————-
Forced? True to some degree but the weak willed bent over. Many( like me) told our employers NO, I will not comply, fire me. I endured weekly testing, after I caught the C flu, the faulty C flu tests were continuously positive, they gave me three months off….with full pay and “ awarded” me with my Religious Exemption.
Glad I didn’t fold, more than a dozen died from the clot shots, many more had serious side effects- two are still on long term disability.
- In the STAT piece, Corbett-Helaire listed concrete steps that everyone in the vaccine field—herself included—should take. These steps include establishing a better system through which people can report vaccine-related injuries -
wish someone could locate the Amazing Polly podcast that detailed the questions and precise injuries that could be reported on the VAERS form.
can’t think of anyone else who exposed how this prevented reporting of most injuries.
Debate shouldn’t be stifled period. That’s like saying we can’t discuss closing our borders because of white supremacist KKK crazies who happen agree with that too. Calling everyone who voices dissent antivax is like calling everyone racist. Trump was censored and kicked off social media for his so called “rhetoric.”
The same medical authorities who want to take away freedom for parents to make their own INFORMED decisions regarding their children’s care — are the same fascist medical officials seeking to shape the laws to do gender surgeries behind parents’ backs, the same who want to cover up Covid’s Wuhan origins, the same officials who refuse to fund the very research that would explain why some kids are prone to side effects even while most are not - and how to keep everyone safe and healthy in the end!
The sensibilities go hand in hand. Everyone against the medical experts aka gods is “antivax” — when even doctors who are pro-vax and regularly vaccinate their own patients get persecuted for saying anything remotely challenging to the system.
North Carolina family can sue over COVID-19 vaccine administered without consent, court rules
https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-carolina-family-can-sue-over-covid-19-vaccine-administered-without-consent-court-rules.amp
A far larger proportion of the “anti-vaxx” rhetoric you speak of is demonstrably true, while a vast amount of the “pro-vaxx” rhetoric has been proven completely false.
I left my job over getting the shot. Several of my co-workers are permanently injured from something, and their illness very closely follows their getting the shot and booster
I am not alone with these experiences, so the onus really is on folks like you that are denying the facts and still shilling for the clot-shot.
For the record, I’m not anti-vaxx, I’m anti experimental gene therapy. I’m more than happy to be part of the control group, and I don’t know a single person that regrets not getting the shot, while I know many who do.
Ya know...it was the hard press on this shot that told me to not trust it. All the ads, the push for EVERYONE ( except of course govt workers, congress, etc.) Well, that and lack of normal long term studies. I believe there are certain vaxes worth getting, but the hard press with babies and toddlers and their shot schedule is also another red flag. So “rhetoric” is not the problem. Some of us were not born yesterday.
Many were forced to take the VAXX in order to keep their employment. Others feared being ostracized by their loving fellow liberals. And some believed the safe and effective lie.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You got it. I warned family and friends about the risk right from the get-go but nobody listened to me. They’re listening now but it’s too late.
A far larger proportion of the “anti-vaxx” rhetoric you speak of is demonstrably true, while a vast amount of the “pro-vaxx” rhetoric has been proven completely false. . . .Etc.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
All well and truly said and confirmed by my personal experience. I warned family and friends, most of whom thought I was nuts. Many now regret not heeding my advice. My DIL, a microbiologist at a pharmaceutical co kept my son and their children away from the shots, and no one in our family got the Covid. I was tested twice, negative both times.
I was fully prepared to retire early over this.
What the other poster said about ostracization is true. Due to my unvaccinated status, My wife (also unvaccinated) and I were not allowed to many family events during that time, including Christmas. They were afraid we'd "kill grandma" or something because they fully bought into the nonsense. We tried not to take it personal.
Then it all went away, virtually overnight. Nobody talks about COVID vaccine mandates anymore and I guess they all want us to forget about it.
I'll never forget it.
Sad sidenote, my youngest son recently passed away with "turbo cancer." He was fine on Thanksgiving, gone shortly after Christmas. It was that fast. Yes, he was very much up to speed on his "vaccinations and boosters." I don't dare bring it up with my widowed DIL who now has two grandchildren to raise. But I believe the COVID vaxxes played a part in that.
So instead they lose a father and a roof over their heads.
SHOW ME THE MONEY!
It's not a vaccine, regardless of what they changed their definition to.
It was so safe that they have immunity issued by corrupt governments, the same governments which exempted their own members. Why were they exempt? Answer that. Why were they exempt?
The government and the pharmaceutical korporations conspired to censor anyone who reported injuries.
Why was the shot given out on street corners and not in doctors' officers? Hmmm?
The told the filthy, stupid, sociopathic lie that people needed to get it to keep others WHO HAD THE SHOT from getting it.
Then, even after the O M M O I R C O R N O I N C variant showed the Jim Jones Jab didn't work, they still pushed it.
First, do no harm. Isn’t that the hypocratic oath?
Prove the vaccine is safe. PROVE that it is safe. But don’t you dare preach to me that it is a messaging issue - ONE counterexample is enough to scuttle a safety trial for many poential vaccines, much less the hundreds that were ignored for the new MRNA poisons.
The definition of “vaccine” was changed to accept the COVID BS. The definition of “experimental” was abused to well beyond reasonableness.
And you blame “messaging”? Really? How pathetic.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.