TL;DR? “More than 13.5 billion doses of Covid vaccines have been administered globally over the past three years, saving over 1 million lives in Europe alone. Still, a small proportion of people immunized were injured by the shots, stoking debate about their benefits versus harms.”

The article is light on the actual numbers of the 13 rare health conditions that were the focus of the study, but mention is made of 240 patients with “exercise intolerance, excessive fatigue, numbness and “brain fog” out of a study sample size of 99M.

I leave you to draw your own conclusions.

Archived link: https://archive.ph/rq3Xk

After looking at this study,

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X24001270?via%3Dihub

It’s basically saying that some incredibly rare conditions become slightly more common, but still incredibly rare.

And although not in the abstract, it’s worth noting that many of these are conditions that have links or potential links to COVID 19 infections.

Avoiding a COVID vaccine for the risks is like choosing to drive cross country instead of fly. Sure, you won’t get in a plane crash, but your risk went way up.

Better source, the actual study:

https://www.globalvaccinedatanetwork.org/node/981

I haven’t gone through it yet.

Jesus what irresponsible weirdo wrote this headline.

Known risks, tiny stat.

The largest study ever done on any food for example will find a "link to health conditions" (for the tiny proportion of people who are allergic to it.).

Pre-covid, I got sick following open heart surgery and ended up with a case of pericarditis.

It felt like I was being stabbed right in the goddamned heart.

Doc explained it can happen as a result of any infection and it would get better on its own. Had me taking ibuprofen for it.

So you're saying simulating an infection via vaccine can also cause it? (shocked pikachu)

I used to teach medical statistics to post grad doctors in the UK. One of my examples was the drop in HRT use in the 90s with UK newspapers reporting a doubling in cancer risk. That was also a relative risk, with absolute risk remaining extremely low. Both the all cause mortality and the absolute measures for quality of life were such that more women suffered and died as a result of the headline scare story.

Not an antivax article exactly, but the title alone will create concerns. Whilst it mentions 1m saved lives, it doesn't identify the significant number who avoided long term harms resulting from COVID infection. Finally, the article doesn't even attempt to advise the tiny proportion of people who develop the adverse effects.

Title made me wary that this could be antivax BS, but article is decent and writes that vaccines offer substantial benefits for nearly all recipients, though nothing in life is truly risk-free and naturally adverse events can rarely occur.

With that said, I would be very careful with this messaging because humans are bad at probability. The title seems unnecessarily ominous IMHO.

I don't see anything new presented here. It's been known for a long time that there are vanishingly small risks involved in vaccination.

small increases

rare events

small proportion

small risk

Very rare, no new info, known for a very long time, accepted risks, easy to treat