Posted on 12/07/2021 7:10:22 AM PST by Red Badger
Governments around the world are warning their citizens that COVID-19 vaccines present heart risks in some populations. But if Twitter users try to look up similar research, they may receive a warning that the information is "unsafe."
Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare "raised the alert level for 'side reactions'" to the Pfizer and Moderna two-shot mRNA vaccines on Dec. 3, according to an English translation of a report by the Japanese Kyodo News Service. Just the News couldn't find a native English version.
"Serious" symptoms of myocarditis and pericarditis are being reported among the vaccinated "more frequently in young men than usual," the wire report said. But the ministry still generally recommends vaccination because the benefits outweigh the side effects. Conservative website American Thinker flagged the news.
The heart problem figures are much higher for Moderna than for Pfizer recipients, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported. The Japanese ministry said that as of Nov. 14, for every million males who took the Moderna vaccine, 81.79 ages 10-19 and 48.76 in their 20s developed such symptoms. For Pfizer, those figures are 15.66 and 13.32.
The ministry is requiring hospitals "to report in detail incidents involving people who developed the symptoms within 28 days after being vaccinated," NHK said.
Tweet URL Japan's action followed that of several Nordic countries specifically against Moderna vaccines this fall, with differing age and gender restrictions, the Associated Press reported at the time.
Sweden and Norway stopped offering Moderna to all people under age 30, while Denmark only restricted those under 18. Finland followed with a more narrowly tailored restriction for males under 18.
The European Medicines Agency acknowledged as early as June that it was reviewing myocarditis cases in Israel following vaccination with Pfizer's Cominarty, the sole vaccine fully approved in the U.S. Heart problems generally started within several days of the second dose for males under 30. Similar problems were reported in Europe for "all" COVID vaccines.
The FDA added the heart-inflammation warnings to fact sheets for the mRNA vaccines around the same time.
Moderna disclosed in late October that the FDA was delaying emergency approval of its COVID vaccine for teenagers until early next year to study the heart problems reported in this age group. It won't even seek emergency use authorization to vaccinate children 6-11 until the review for older children is finished.
It's not clear that COVID vaccination provides a meaningful benefit for children without preexisting health conditions.
A German study of children's hospitalization, intensive care unit (ICU) admission and death due to COVID-19 and pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome, published Nov. 30 as a preprint awaiting peer review, said it couldn't calculate a case fatality rate for "primarily healthy children ages 5-11."
The pediatric researchers couldn't find any such deaths in Germany, while the ICU admission rate for that age group was 0.2 per 10,000.
Deadline passed to offer correction
Just a day before Japan's announcement, Twitter started warning users not to read a research abstract on heart problems following mRNA vaccination that was published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation.
The abstract, submitted by California doctor and former cardiac surgeon Steven Gundry, found "dramatic changes" for most of his COVID-vaccinated patients in a blood test that measures early signs of heart problems. The patients' so-called PULS score jumped from an 11% risk of "acute coronary syndrome" within 5 years to 25%.
Gundry presented his findings to an AHA conference last month, according to the trade publication Cardiology Advisor. The jump was notable because Gundry's patients — more than 500 men and women ages 28 to 97 — had been taking PULS cardiac tests every three to six months for eight years.
The AHA was apparently spooked after former New York Times journalist Alex Berenson flagged the abstract Nov. 22, a week after the conference ended. (Days earlier, Berenson highlighted nearly 4,000 deaths among 4 million Swedes within two weeks of their second vaccination dose, which he claimed would translate into an annual mortality rate nearly three times the Swedish average.)
Tweet URL Circulation added an "expression of concern" to the abstract, the first step toward possible retraction, Nov. 24.
Beyond a typo misspelling "PULS" as "PLUS," the abstract has no data on "myocardial T-cell infiltration, there are no statistical analyses for significance provided, and the author is not clear that only anecdotal data was used," the editorial note says. The journal is working on a "suitable correction."
AHA told Retraction Watch that it had asked Gundry to submit a correction by 6 p.m. Friday. These "brief summary documents" are just the starting point for "a scientific conversation on the findings, which may then, ultimately, result in a full manuscript published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal," and AHA "makes no representation or guarantee as to their accuracy or reliability," an AHA spokesperson wrote.
Dana Lewis, a representative for Gundry, told Just the News Friday afternoon, hours before his deadline, that he would not comment on the controversy.
Reuters purported to fact-check the abstract Nov. 26, claiming it lacked "reliable evidence of a link between mRNA vaccines and heart disease."
By Dec. 2, Twitter was imposing an "unsafe" interstitial that warns readers the link is "potentially spammy or unsafe" for reasons including "misleading content that could lead to real-world harm."
Only the link to the study's main page, shared by verified newspaper columnists, a talk show host and "X Games medalist," triggers the warning. An alternate link directly to the abstract, widely shared on Twitter by non-verified accounts, does not draw the warning.
“RARE”!
TWitter is the Medical expert for sure..
This “house of cards” can’t fall fast enough.
Regardless of FB, Twitter, the truth is gonna get out to the general public, and there’s nothing these communist azzholes can do about it.
Truth will out.........................
rktman wrote: ““RARE”!”
Yes, “for every million males who took the Moderna vaccine, 81.79 ages 10-19” is rather rare. 0.0000819
And they are giving this stuff kids who are at virtually no risk from COVID-19.
“They found that, during the first 12 months of the pandemic, males aged 12 to 17 were most likely to develop myocarditis within three months of catching covid-19, at a rate of about 450 cases per million infections.”
commies gotta censor
Yet the vaccine has been shown to not prevent infection. So why the headline and story.
mzimmpa wrote: “Yet the vaccine has been shown to not prevent infection. So why the headline and story.”
No vaccine is 100% effective in preventing infections. So why is that such an issue with this vaccine?
SARS–CoV–2 Spike Impairs DNA Damage Repair and Inhibits V(D)J Recombination In Vitro
If the above is correct, guess what can enter the cell nucleus after all...
The smallpox vaxx’s efficacy runs around 95.
Smallpox has a mortality rate of about 30%
Compare that with CoupFlu.
A highly survivable illness, especially if treated early, with vaxxes that are far less efficacious and far more risky.
Informed consent is possible with the smallpox vaxx.
Informed consent is impossible when it comes to the CoupFlu vaxxes.
There are your issues.
mewzilla wrote: “Smallpox has a mortality rate of about 30%. Compare that with CoupFlu. A highly survivable illness, especially if treated early, with vaxxes that are far less efficacious and far more risky.”
Polio mortality rate was 99%. Compare that to COVID.
mewzilla wrote: “Informed consent is possible with the smallpox vaxx. Informed consent is impossible when it comes to the CoupFlu vaxxes.”
Plenty of information about COVID vaccines so informed consent is highly possible. Polio mandates were just as wide spread.
So where are your issues?
My understanding was it was tested thoroughly enough, they just covered up the bad side affects. Pfeizer hid deaths, what else did they hide. They just didn’t care about anything that would affect their profit.
Or, as has been suggested, not a bug, a feature.
Informed consent is informed by the manufacturer and consented to by the individual.
“Plenty of information about COVID vaccines” is vacuous, for there is information on both sides.
But this remains a phase three clinical trial and that trial is 1) not completed and the final results announced, and 2) mandates to participate in said clinical trials are NOT consent.
That the manufacturers are not legally liable for damages informs many, and many still do not given their consent. Ergo informed consent remains an issue, if not to you. Why begrudge others for a differing conclusion?
Polio mortalit⁶y rate wasn’t remotely 99%. 98% of polio cases were mild. Only 2% resulted in paralysis or death.
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