[HN Gopher] EU looking into new possible side-effects of mRNA Co...
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EU looking into new possible side-effects of mRNA Covid-19 shots
Author : Overton-Window
Score : 22 points
Date : 2021-08-12 22:19 UTC (40 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (www.reuters.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.reuters.com)
| GekkePrutser wrote:
| I got Pfizer but I'n not worried about this. If these side
| effects were really widespread we'd have heard of them long ago.
|
| Covid is a lot nastier by the sounds of it. I still fully stand
| by my decision to get it the very day it became available to me.
| Overton-Window wrote:
| https://old.reddit.com/r/CovidVaccinated/
| GekkePrutser wrote:
| Yeah I know there are side effects for many people. For me
| the second time it felt a bit like I ran into a door handle
| at the spot where I got the jab. That was all.
|
| But this is anecdotal of course. They always said side
| effects would be possible for some people. There's also a
| reason we all have to wait 15 minutes before leaving.
|
| If these were serious and common however, really the
| hospitals would be so busy by now taking care of all of them.
| The number of people that got the vaccine here in europe in
| the space of the last few months is enormous. Even the
| tiniest chance of serious complications would have been
| flooding the hospitals which were already at high pressure
| due to covid.
| walterbell wrote:
| Statistically, these are low risk. But for those who were injured
| or died, that's no consolation. The question is how can we screen
| those small number of people who are more likely to be vaccine
| injured?
| nobody9999 wrote:
| The source article states that the side effects at issue are:
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| "Erythema multiforme, a form of allergic skin reaction;
| glomerulonephritis or kidney inflammation; and nephrotic
| syndrome, a renal disorder characterised by heavy urinary protein
| losses, are being studied by the safety committee of the European
| Medicines Agency (EMA), according to the regulator."
|
| I'm not a nephrologist, nor am I conversant in kidney disorders
| so I don't know off the top of my head how serious this might be.
| Hopefully not too serious.
| kneel wrote:
| Had a slight rash down my body after the 2nd vaccination shot, it
| was mild and faded after a couple days. Interesting to hear that
| rashes are just now being reported.
| criticaltinker wrote:
| To be clear these side-effects are likely caused by the host
| immunological response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, rather than "bad"
| vaccines.
|
| >* More than half of the cases reported to the U.S. Vaccine
| Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) after people had received
| their second dose of either the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna
| vaccines were in people between the ages of 12 and 24, the CDC
| said. Those age groups accounted for less than 9% of doses
| administered.* [1]
|
| >* In this small case series study, myocarditis was diagnosed in
| children after COVID-19 vaccination, most commonly in boys after
| the second dose. In this case series, in short-term follow-up,
| patients were mildly affected. The long-term risks associated
| with postvaccination myocarditis remain unknown.* [2]
|
| >* Acute myocarditis with intense systemic inflammation and
| atypical Kawasaki disease is an emerging severe pediatric disease
| following SARS-CoV-2 infection. A delayed and inappropriate host
| immunological response is suspected. * [3]
|
| >* It should be appreciated that myocardial inflammation alone by
| macrophages and T cells can be seen in noninfectious deaths and
| COVID-19 cases, but the extent of each is different, and in
| neither case do such findings represent clinically relevant
| myocarditis.* [4]
|
| [1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cdc-heart-inflammation-
| case...
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| [2] Association of Myocarditis With BNT162b2 Messenger RNA
| COVID-19 Vaccine in a Case Series of Children
| https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/...
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| [3] Acute myocarditis and multisystem inflammatory emerging
| disease following SARS-CoV-2 infection in critically ill children
| https://annalsofintensivecare.springeropen.com/articles/10.1...
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| [4] Pathological Evidence for SARS-CoV-2 as a Cause of
| Myocarditis https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7816957/
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