Covid vaccines linked to Ischemic strokes, 274 reports to VAERS, signal was triggered for people aged 65 and older, CDC and FDA investigation
Covid vaccines linked to Ischemic strokes, 274 reports to VAERS, signal was triggered for people aged 65 and older, CDC and FDA investigation
From the Epoch Times.
“Data indicates Pfizer’s new COVID-19 vaccine could cause a type of stroke in elderly people, two U.S. health agencies said on Jan. 13.
The threshold for a safety signal was met for Pfizer’s bivalent booster in the Vaccine Safety Datalink, a monitoring system run by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The signal was for ischemic stroke, a type of stroke caused by blood clotting.
The signal was triggered for people aged 65 and older, the CDC and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in a joint statement.
Safety signals are triggered when an adverse event such as stroke happens at a certain rate following vaccination.
Signals suggest a connection between an adverse event and a vaccine but further study must be done to verify a connection.
“All signals require further investigation and confirmation from formal epidemiologic studies,” the CDC and FDA said. “Often these safety systems detect signals that could be due to factors other than the vaccine itself.””
“Recommended Without Clinical Data
Pfizer’s new booster, which targets the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants in addition to the Wuhan strain, was authorized and recommended in late 2022 without any clinical data. Months later, no clinical data has been made available by Pfizer, the CDC, or the FDA.
A recent FDA study identified an increased risk of pulmonary embolism after Pfizer’s original vaccine in the elderly. That condition, a lack of oxygen to the heart, is also caused by blood clotting.
The CDC, meanwhile, flagged hundreds of safety signals for both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, according to monitoring results obtained by The Epoch Times. The monitoring was done on reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, which authorities describe as “the nation’s early warning system” for vaccines and which is co-run by the CDC and FDA.
Experts said there was a high probability that the vaccines caused some of the adverse events, including hepatic cirrhosis.
Ischemic stroke was not one of the signals that were identified.
Two hundred and seventy-four reports of ischemic stroke after Pfizer vaccination have been reported to the reporting system as of late 2022.
The CDC and FDA have aggressively promoted COVID-19 vaccination during the pandemic, and the stroke signal was not changing that stance.”
A 12 year old recently died from a stroke.
When was the last time you heard of that?
