From the link to the CDC:
- A large study of updated (bivalent) vaccines (from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna) using the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services database revealed no increased risk of ischemic stroke
- A preliminary study using the Veterans Affairs database did not indicate an increased risk of ischemic stroke following an updated (bivalent) vaccine
- The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) managed by CDC and FDA has not seen an increase in reporting of ischemic strokes following the updated (bivalent) vaccine
- Pfizer-BioNTech’s global safety database has not indicated a signal for ischemic stroke with the updated (bivalent) vaccine
- Other countries have not observed an increased risk for ischemic stroke with updated (bivalent) vaccines
Although the totality of the data currently suggests that it is very unlikely that the signal in VSD represents a true clinical risk, we believe it is important to share this information with the public
I’m gonna agree with @Frank and say that this headline isn’t responsible.
Reuters be like;
Lemme just pour some cesium-132 impregnated napalm directly on the anti-vax cluster fuck.
This is exactly the kind of article a responsible media organization does not publish. They know that this will be picked up by every anti-vax freak on the planet as evidence that the vaccine killed their family, their friends, their dog, them, and jesus. No one is going to read “one database flagged a small but significant suspicious correlation that merits further investigation” and actually treat that with any nuance or understanding.
Even if accept the idea that it has to be written on at this stage, which I don’t, the story can wait until the information is looked over better, we still have the problem of how much better media needs to be about making it clear in their headlines that it shouldn’t be a concern right now and even if the problem is real it’s going to be very rare.
He was talking about Reuters not the medical researchers or journal. Routers chooses not to publish things all the time and not publishing something because it might not be fully substantiated yet and may cause public panic is perfectly in line with journalism ethics.
Bruh, more mRNA stuff incoming.
I’d still sit down and let them vaccinate me for three hours like a tattoo appointment. The cardiovascular damage from COVID also carries a stroke/PE/MI risk in addition to every other way it damages the tissues receiving blood through increasingly smaller vessels and the Russian roulette odds of long COVID. Big nope.
We’re any of the people who had a stroke tested for covid antibodies from a recent infection?
