Experts call “serious doubt” about Covid -vaccinstudy that claims MRNA damage

For many people, the COVID-19 Pandemie is in the rear-view mirror, despite the fact that the virus still kills hundreds every week and could rise again if there is still a mutated tension, as can be seen several times in the past five years. Nevertheless, infections have recently been relatively profound thanks to the acquired immunity of infections and vaccines. Indeed, record-breaking vaccine development played a major role in keeping the SARS-COV-2 virus at a distance.

Vaccin-Skeptics have made long-term use of the rapid role of MRNA vaccines to add fuel to heated arguments around the safety of vaccine. As a result, a growing part of the audience is wary of being vaccinated with both mrna and other types of vaccines. Despite the fact that their development process has been unfolding for decades and these vaccines were subject to the same safety standards as others, political figures continue to continue unstalved research to focus on mrna -vaccines, with serious health consequences.

Those feelings are also reflected at the level of the state. Earlier this week, Iowa legislators promoted a bill that would prohibit the administration of MRNA vaccines, and Florida Gov. Ron Desantis also called for a permanent ban on mrna vaccine mandates. Last month, the legislators of Kentucky introduced a bill that would make it illegal to give MRNA vaccins to children and remove vaccine mandates by schools, hospitals and employers, while a regional health department of Idaho prohibited Covid -Onvaccins in October.

Last month, researchers from Yale University published a study, which does not yet have to be peer-reviewed, on the PrePrint server Medrx, which quickly circulated online under vaccineceeptics. The study said that a small group of patients reported persistent symptoms similar to long Covid – including brain mist, fatigue, tinnitus and sleeping problems – after receiving the Pfizer or modern mrna -covid -vaccine. (Four patients also received the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine that does not use MRNA.) It was quickly distributed online and used to put together anti-vaccines and wrong information.

But experts insisted on caution when interpreting these results before the study can be verified and peer reviewed. Firstly, the study used a small sample size, with only 42 people (and 22 healthy control persons) who identified their symptoms themselves, Dr. E. John Wherry, the director of the Institute for Immunology and Immune Health at the University of Pennsylvania, who was not involved in the research.

“When you do studies where you compare one cohort with the other, there must be a number of rigorous criteria for those who have been included in a cohort,” Wherry Salon said in a telephone interview. “From what I can see, this has been identified and it is unclear what that means exactly.”

Because it is a preprint study that is not by peer-reviewed, the authors acknowledged in a press release that their findings had to be validated. An author told Stat News that the data is not “ready to be used in clinical decision -making.” The accompanying authors of the article did not respond to the requests of Salon for comments.

“This study is at an early stage and requires replication and validation,” they wrote in the newspaper. “We emphasize the critical task to distinguish between meaningful results and random fluctuations in the data.”

Sometimes reported side effects of medical interventions appear to be statistical noise. During the H1N1 Pandemie of 2009, for example, early research showed that the risk of a miscarriage was increased in pregnant women who received the vaccine for two consecutive years in a row. This was recorded in safety monitoring data and further investigated by other research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which regarded the signal in the earlier studies as a false alarm.

On the other hand, other safety signals that seem to be removed to removing certain vaccines from markets. The first Rotavirus vaccine, for example, was withdrawn in 1999 when researchers discovered an increased risk of intussusception, a rare type of intestinal obstruction, for children who received the vaccine.

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Each medical intervention entails the risk of side effects and vaccines, just like ordinary medicines such as acetaminophen or aspirin, can sometimes harm people, Dr. John Moore, professor of microbiology and immunology at Cornell University, who was not involved in the study. Some side effects of the COVID vaccine, such as changes in menstruation and heart problems such as myocarditis, have been reported in a small part of the population that Schoten receives. But it is important to weigh these risks with the protective benefits that the vaccine also offers – viruses also cause damage.

“There is a generally recognized side effect of myocarditis on the MRNA vaccines, mainly in young men, and it is always in the States Non-Fatal,” Moore Salon said in a telephone interview. “No one disputes that, but COVID-19 infections cause much larger and much more common cases of myocarditis and pericarditis.”

Sources emphasized how important it is for doctors and researchers to be led by patient experience and to investigate possible symptoms that patients report after a COVID-19 vaccine. Many patients with long covid, lyme disease and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), including chronic medical expenses, have fought for recognition within a medical system that is notorious to reject or ignore their experience.

But as it looks now, “post-vaccination syndrome”-which the authors use to describe the symptoms reported by patients in this preprint study-no-official diagnosis recognized by medical authorities. In general, Covid vaccines, including those who use mrna, are considered extremely safe.

“When you start analyzing tens of millions of vaccinations for COVID-19, you start seeing side effects that pop up at the level of one in a million,” said Moore. “You have to balance that against, according to some estimates, between hundreds of thousands and millions of people whose life was only saved in the United States by COVID-19 vaccination.”

Nevertheless, studies like these fall in precarious circumstances, where researchers are often stuck between a rock and a hard place to follow the data and not to feed growing distrust in the medical system. It is a task that is increasingly difficult to complete with political leaders such as the secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a well -known vaccincerus, who encourages vaccine skepticism.

This preprint study recently exploded on social media, where it was shared by Joe Rogan, Alex Berenson and Elon Musk. Two of the authors, described as independent researchers in this article, are involved in a non -profit organization of vaccine injuries called React19. One co-author also sues AstraZeneca for symptoms she experienced after she was vaccinated.

While Dr. Adam Gaffney, a university teacher at the Harvard Medical School and a pulmonary and critical care doctor at the Cambridge Health Alliance wrote in a Stat news article, some co-authors seem to be motivated by a genuine desire to “give a voice to a community of patients experiencing real suffering.” Yet there are still too many unanswered questions to draw conclusions about the study.

‘[A] Closer view of the basic approach and assumptions that underlie this study, the inclusion of vaccincritics among the co-authors and the ‘patient-led’ paradigm from which it came, all serious doubts about the conclusions of the study, ”Gaffney wrote. “In this era of rising anti-vaccine and anti-scientific sentiment, damage is likely to follow.”