Vaccines Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening? (May 2024, NYT) All vaccines have at least occasional side effects. But people who say they were injured by Covid vaccines believe their cases have been ignored.

[Michael Harrop]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/health/covid-vaccines-side-effects.html

Shaun Barcavage, 54, a nurse practitioner in New York City, said that ever since his first Covid shot, standing up has sent his heart racing.

Within minutes of getting the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, Michelle Zimmerman felt pain racing from her left arm up to her ear and down to her fingertips. Within days, she was unbearably sensitive to light and struggled to remember simple facts.

She was 37, with a Ph.D. in neuroscience, and until then could ride her bicycle 20 miles, teach a dance class and give a lecture on artificial intelligence, all in the same day. Now, more than three years later, she lives with her parents. Eventually diagnosed with brain damage, she cannot work, drive or even stand for long periods of time.

There is no central repository of vaccine recipients, nor of medical records, and no easy to way to pool these data. Reports to the largest federal database of so-called adverse events can be made by anyone, about anything. It’s not even clear what officials should be looking for.

Renee France, 49, a physical therapist in Seattle, developed Bell’s palsy — a form of facial paralysis, usually temporary — and a dramatic rash that neatly bisected her face. Bell’s palsy is a known side effect of other vaccines, and it has been linked to Covid vaccination in some studies.

Even leading experts in vaccine science have run up against disbelief and ambivalence.

Dr. Gregory Poland, 68, editor in chief of the journal Vaccine, said that a loud whooshing sound in his ears had accompanied every moment since his first shot, but that his entreaties to colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to explore the phenomenon, tinnitus, had led nowhere.

Dr. Buddy Creech, 50, who led several Covid vaccine trials at Vanderbilt University, said his tinnitus and racing heart lasted about a week after each shot. “It’s very similar to what I experienced during acute Covid, back in March of 2020,” Dr. Creech said.

“Regardless, when our patients experience a side effect that may or may not be related to the vaccine, we owe it to them to investigate that as completely as we can,” Dr. Creech said.

The rise of the anti-vaccine movement has made it difficult for scientists, in and out of government, to candidly address potential side effects, some experts said. Much of the narrative on the purported dangers of Covid vaccines is patently false, or at least exaggerated, cooked up by savvy anti-vaccine campaigns.

The officials each responded with “that very tired mantra: ‘But the virus is worse,’” Dr. Murphy recalled. “Yes, the virus is worse, but that doesn’t obviate doing research to make sure that there may be other options.”

I've seen this same attitude and dismissal when the harms of antibiotics are brought up in laypeople communities.

 

[high functioning autism]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/health/covid-vaccines-side-effects.html

















I've seen this same attitude and dismissal when the harms of antibiotics are brought up in laypeople communities.

Agreed. We are considered conspiracy theorists.

 

[Jazz e J]

My mother died from Covid and I lost my memory

 

[Michael Harrop]

My mother died from Covid and I lost my memory

Were either of you vaccinated? Either way, FMT is likely the solution:

• The gut microbiome, COVID-19, and long COVID [collection of studies]
• https://humanmicrobiome.info/brain/