Data from vaccine safety monitoring programs indicate that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and not associated with any increase in mortality or sudden deaths. While certain COVID-19 vaccines have been associated with a slightly increased risk of blood clotting and heart inflammation, these conditions are more likely to result from COVID-19 itself than from vaccination.
In the U.S., the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) is a no-fault program that compensates people who are found to have been injured by certain vaccinations. It doesn’t prohibit people from suing vaccine manufacturers, but people can only pursue legal action against manufacturers after exhausting their options through the VICP. Both authorized and approved COVID-19 vaccines are pandemic countermeasures under the PREP Act declaration. Therefore, they aren’t covered by the VICP, but by another program known as the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program.
Face masks act as a physical barrier that blocks infectious respiratory droplets. However, mask pores are still big enough to allow tiny gas molecules, including carbon dioxide, to pass through. Therefore, wearing a face mask can’t cause carbon dioxide to accumulate in amounts significant enough to cause blood acidity. Furthermore, cancer is caused by mutations, not body acidity.
Myocarditis and pericarditis are conditions involving inflammation of the heart. Both conditions are commonly caused by viral infections, such as COVID-19 and the flu. The COVID-19 mRNA vaccines have also been associated with a higher risk of myocarditis, particularly in young men. However, the risk of myocarditis is significantly higher after COVID-19 than after vaccination. Reliable scientific evidence shows that the benefits of COVID-19 vaccination outweigh their risks.
Multiple scientific studies have shown that COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at reducing the risk of severe COVID-19 and death. However, the COVID-19 vaccines aren’t 100% effective, so some vaccinated people will still become sick and die from COVID-19. In many countries in the world, there are far more vaccinated people than unvaccinated people. More vaccinated people being hospitalized is a reflection of the fact that vaccinated people far outnumber unvaccinated people, not that the vaccines work poorly.
Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are chiefly known for their ability to treat malaria, a parasitic infection. They are also used to treat other conditions, such as the autoimmune disease rheumatoid arthritis. However, clinical trials involving thousands of COVID-19 patients to date found that hydroxychloroquine doesn’t improve disease severity or mortality rate in COVID-19 patients. Health authorities recommend against using hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19.
image credit The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Publich Health SUMMARY In August 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized bivalent COVID-19 vaccine formulations as single booster doses. These bivalent formulations contain messenger RNA (mRNA) from the original SARS-CoV-2 strain and mRNA present in the BA.4 and BA.5 lineages of the Omicron variant. … Continued
The emergence of the Omicron variant caused a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases and related hospitalizations among children aged six months to five years. Clinical trials involving thousands of participants showed that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and induce an immune response in children within this age group, which can prevent complications from the disease. Therefore, the American Academy of Pediatricians and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that all children aged six months to five years receive the vaccine.
COVID-19 prevention strategies, such as physical distancing, mask-wearing and the COVID vaccines, have become heavily partisan in the U.S. Compared to Democrats, Republican voters are less compliant with COVID-19 prevention measures and are less likely to have received the COVID-19 vaccine. Two studies from 2022 provide evidence that these partisan differences in compliance impact COVID-19 health outcomes, with higher COVID-19 death rates among Republicans and in Republican counties compared to Democrats and Democratic counties.
Influenza and COVID-19 are both respiratory diseases. However, they are caused by two entirely different viruses. The combination of specific diagnostic tests able to distinguish between the two viruses and mortality data indicate that COVID-19 is not caused by the influenza virus. Instead, it’s a new disease, responsible for millions of additional deaths.
