[HN Gopher] Tinnitus reports grow amid Covid-19 vaccinations
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       Tinnitus reports grow amid Covid-19 vaccinations
        
       Author : miles
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2021-04-21 17:51 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | sparker72678 wrote:
       | This article was published March 11th. There have been many tens
       | of millions of people who have received vaccinations since then.
       | Is there anything with more recent data to shed more light on
       | this, one way or the other?
        
       | tsoukase wrote:
       | We should wait a couple of months. If these (quasi)neurological
       | complications persist after 3 months, they can become permanent
       | and debilitating. If not, then they are nothing
        
       | jquaint wrote:
       | > The U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)
       | database cites 152 reports of tinnitus among 25,072 COVID-19
       | recipients of vaccines from Pfizer-BioNtech and Moderna.
       | 
       | Pointing out here that this reporting system (VAERS) is not an
       | official scientific source of vaccine effects[1]. These reports
       | are completely self reported with no follow up/verification. You
       | can basically report any symptoms and it will get accepted.
       | 
       | Take this case:
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       | > Indeed, an autism activist named Jim Laidler once reported to
       | VAERS that a vaccine had turned him into The Incredible Hulk. The
       | report was accepted and entered into the database, but the
       | dubious nature thereof prompted a VAERS representative to contact
       | Mr. Laidler, who then gave his consent to delete the report[2]
       | 
       | So there actually has been no study here to see if there is a
       | link been the vaccine and tinnitus. Its possible that these
       | people developed tinnitus independent of the vaccine.
       | 
       | Often VAERS is used by anti-vaxxer's to spread misinformation.
       | 
       | [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-vaers-deaths-
       | idUSL... [2]
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_Adverse_Event_Reportin...
        
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