[HN Gopher] COVID vaccine injury claims mount, but recourse is l...
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       COVID vaccine injury claims mount, but recourse is lacking for
       those harmed
        
       Author : AndrewBissell
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2021-10-20 20:40 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.reuters.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.reuters.com)
        
       | Factorium wrote:
       | https://investinganswers.com/articles/10-most-popular-stocks...
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       | Top stock owned by members of congress -
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       | Pfizer #6
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       | Johnson and Johnson #7
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       | Moderna stock up 387% YoY:
       | https://investinganswers.com/articles/10-most-popular-stocks...
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       | Bill Gates invested $55million into BioNTech in October 2019:
       | https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-det...
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       | Why are people with COVID antibodies from successful recovery
       | forced to get vaccines? Why are children when COVID presents no
       | risk to them?
        
         | luxuryballs wrote:
         | my pet theory on the new push to vaccinate children is they
         | didn't get as many adults as they expected and need to make up
         | for the sales so now they are marketing to children/parents
        
         | help_quanted wrote:
         | Actually, delta is hospitalizing and killing children at a
         | significantly increased rate relative to the initial virus.
         | 
         | Congress is going to hold blue chip stocks..what specious
         | argument are you're trying to make?
        
       | user743 wrote:
       | 2.2M+ adverse reactions in the WHO database. Of course Google,
       | the corporate press, and "independent fact checkers" are saying
       | it lacks context.
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       | Most people I know, know at least a few people that had adverse
       | reactions already; let alone ADE or long-term consequences.
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       | http://www.vigiaccess.org/
        
         | mullingitover wrote:
         | > 2.2M+ adverse reactions in the WHO database.
         | 
         | That's a big stretch.
         | 
         | Take everything on the site with a block of salt, given that
         | _that 's exactly what they tell you to do_:
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         | > The information on this website, therefore, does not reflect
         | any confirmed link between a medicinal product and a side
         | effect
         | 
         | People have been abusing the validity of VigiAccess to make
         | specious claims about adverse effects and it's already been
         | debunked[1].
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         | [1]
         | https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/10/15/fac...
        
         | phonypc wrote:
         | The WHO essentially says it lacks context. Read the "Important
         | points to consider" heading in your link.
         | 
         | Namely "VigiAccess cannot be used to infer any confirmed link
         | between a suspected side effect and any specific medicine."
        
       | mullingitover wrote:
       | It's pretty wild that prior to vaccination, smallpox prevention
       | was done by inoculation with actual live smallpox. That story of
       | Washington forcing his troops to be 'vaccinated' is wrong - he
       | exposed them to _actual smallpox_. Something like 1% of people
       | receiving inoculation would develop full-blown smallpox. No
       | vaccine courts for those folks.
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       | There are going to be a lot of one in a million coincidences with
       | this broad of a vaccination campaign - a lot of people who were
       | going to develop blood clots for unrelated reasons are going to
       | coincidentally get them after getting vaccinated. Same goes for
       | myocarditis - vaccination can cause it in rare cases, but so can
       | adenovirus, herpes, hepatitis, various bacteria, parasites, and
       | fungi. There are going to be a lot of coincidences at this scale
       | so it's important that they're carefully reviewed by the court so
       | the covid vaccine isn't wrongly tarred, especially now when
       | misinformation will make several laps around the world before the
       | facts can get their pants on.
        
         | AndrewBissell wrote:
         | > _Something like 1% of people receiving inoculation would
         | develop full-blown smallpox. No vaccine courts for those
         | folks._
         | 
         | They at least got the benefit of being inoculated against a
         | virus which would have a 30% chance of killing them. This made
         | it very likely for the inoculations to be positive risk
         | tradeoff for all the troops who were ordered to get them. The
         | same is not necessarily true for a healthy 19 year old without
         | comorbidities who is forced to get a Covid vaccination to
         | attend college.
         | 
         | Another point of contrast is that smallpox inoculation was
         | sterilizing and prevented the inoculated from being able to
         | spread the disease.
        
           | mullingitover wrote:
           | > The same is not necessarily true for a healthy 19 year old
           | without comorbidities who is forced to get a Covid
           | vaccination to attend college.
           | 
           | True, if you only narrowly focus on the immediate benefit to
           | the individual there are head-spinning number of laws and
           | rules that don't make sense in civilization.
        
       | nuerow wrote:
       | I apologize for going out on a tangent, but I jus have to draw
       | some attention to this quote from the article:
       | 
       | > _McFadden, 44, said she was previously healthy and needed two
       | emergency surgeries to remove massive clots in her lungs, heart
       | and left leg. She spent nine days in the hospital, racking up
       | $489,153 in medical bills, she said._
       | 
       | Seriously, US of A. What the hell is this? How is this even
       | possible?
        
         | agency wrote:
         | The invisible hand guiding our healthcare system has an
         | unfortunate tendency to reach into your pocket and leave you
         | bankrupt.
        
       | treelovinhippie wrote:
       | I've had the influenza vaccine every year with no side effects.
       | 
       | 3 weeks of chest pains on the 1st Pfizer (+emergency visit) and 1
       | week of chest pains on the 2nd Pfizer. ECG, x-ray and blood tests
       | normal. Four different doctors: "we don't know what the side
       | effect is, can't diagnose it, and we're seeing it quite often".
       | Yeah that was concerning.
        
       | Tarsul wrote:
       | where is the recourse for those who suffer from covid due to
       | negligence of others?
        
         | user743 wrote:
         | When I've been sick in the past I've often thought that it
         | would be nice to have recourse against the people who infected
         | me.
         | 
         | This is life though. It's not practical, moral, or enforceable.
         | 
         | The best thing one can do is put effort into the factors they
         | can control--diet, exercise, avoiding unnecessary conflict to
         | keep stress low, etc.
        
         | vnchr wrote:
         | It's their personal responsibility to get vaccinated if they
         | want to avoid that outcome
        
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