[HN Gopher] EU looking into new possible side-effects of mRNA Co... ___________________________________________________________________ EU looking into new possible side-effects of mRNA Covid-19 shots Author : Overton-Window Score : 22 points Date : 2021-08-12 22:19 UTC (40 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (www.reuters.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.reuters.com) | GekkePrutser wrote: | I got Pfizer but I'n not worried about this. If these side | effects were really widespread we'd have heard of them long ago. | | Covid is a lot nastier by the sounds of it. I still fully stand | by my decision to get it the very day it became available to me. | Overton-Window wrote: | https://old.reddit.com/r/CovidVaccinated/ | GekkePrutser wrote: | Yeah I know there are side effects for many people. For me | the second time it felt a bit like I ran into a door handle | at the spot where I got the jab. That was all. | | But this is anecdotal of course. They always said side | effects would be possible for some people. There's also a | reason we all have to wait 15 minutes before leaving. | | If these were serious and common however, really the | hospitals would be so busy by now taking care of all of them. | The number of people that got the vaccine here in europe in | the space of the last few months is enormous. Even the | tiniest chance of serious complications would have been | flooding the hospitals which were already at high pressure | due to covid. | walterbell wrote: | Statistically, these are low risk. But for those who were injured | or died, that's no consolation. The question is how can we screen | those small number of people who are more likely to be vaccine | injured? | nobody9999 wrote: | The source article states that the side effects at issue are: | | "Erythema multiforme, a form of allergic skin reaction; | glomerulonephritis or kidney inflammation; and nephrotic | syndrome, a renal disorder characterised by heavy urinary protein | losses, are being studied by the safety committee of the European | Medicines Agency (EMA), according to the regulator." | | I'm not a nephrologist, nor am I conversant in kidney disorders | so I don't know off the top of my head how serious this might be. | Hopefully not too serious. | kneel wrote: | Had a slight rash down my body after the 2nd vaccination shot, it | was mild and faded after a couple days. Interesting to hear that | rashes are just now being reported. | criticaltinker wrote: | To be clear these side-effects are likely caused by the host | immunological response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, rather than "bad" | vaccines. | | >* More than half of the cases reported to the U.S. Vaccine | Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) after people had received | their second dose of either the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna | vaccines were in people between the ages of 12 and 24, the CDC | said. Those age groups accounted for less than 9% of doses | administered.* [1] | | >* In this small case series study, myocarditis was diagnosed in | children after COVID-19 vaccination, most commonly in boys after | the second dose. In this case series, in short-term follow-up, | patients were mildly affected. The long-term risks associated | with postvaccination myocarditis remain unknown.* [2] | | >* Acute myocarditis with intense systemic inflammation and | atypical Kawasaki disease is an emerging severe pediatric disease | following SARS-CoV-2 infection. A delayed and inappropriate host | immunological response is suspected. * [3] | | >* It should be appreciated that myocardial inflammation alone by | macrophages and T cells can be seen in noninfectious deaths and | COVID-19 cases, but the extent of each is different, and in | neither case do such findings represent clinically relevant | myocarditis.* [4] | | [1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cdc-heart-inflammation- | case... | | [2] Association of Myocarditis With BNT162b2 Messenger RNA | COVID-19 Vaccine in a Case Series of Children | https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/... | | [3] Acute myocarditis and multisystem inflammatory emerging | disease following SARS-CoV-2 infection in critically ill children | https://annalsofintensivecare.springeropen.com/articles/10.1... | | [4] Pathological Evidence for SARS-CoV-2 as a Cause of | Myocarditis https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7816957/ ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-08-12 23:00 UTC)