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This is the best article I read in the past 24 hours.
A related article that follows is the second best.
personal anecdotes about vaccine side effects are very important to explain the numbers. Covid vaccines have caused far more injuries than any vaccine in history. They have also failed to reduce US deaths from all causes in 2021, versus 2020. If you want to consider the questionable deaths with Covid statistic, the Covid vaccines are a complete failure -- far more deaths with Covid n 2021 than in 2020. Of course I am untaxed -- I do not even consider vaccines developed in nine months -- typical new vaccine timing is 10 to 15 years, with a 98% to 99% failure rate. When you shorten a 10+ year process to 9 months, the expected result is garbage. ... I did some editing to shorten these Articles, but they still add up to a lot of reading. To avoid distractions from these articles, this will be the last post today.
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"Dr. Danice Hertz remembers vividly the day she got a COVID-19 vaccine.
Hertz, a retired gastroenterologist, received Pfizer’s shot on Dec. 23, 2020, less than two weeks after U.S. regulators granted it emergency use authorization.
Thirty minutes went by before an adverse reaction started.
“My face started burning and tingling and my eyes got blurry,” Hertz told The Epoch Times. She also felt faint.
Her husband called paramedics, who came and found Hertz’s blood pressure was sky-high. They recommended she call a doctor.
Hertz became so sick she feared she would die. She experienced symptoms including severe facial pain, chest constriction, tremors, twitching limbs, and tinnitus.
“I felt like someone was pouring acid on me,” Hertz, of Los Angeles, California, said.
Hertz survived but still suffers.
She has been to numerous specialists.
Multiple experts found indications the vaccine triggered the reaction, according to medical records reviewed by The Epoch Times.
Hertz is one of millions of Americans who chose to get one of the COVID-19 vaccines soon after the government cleared them.
Since then, hundreds of millions of doses have been administered.
Many recipients have been fine, if less protected than they were initially promised.
But a growing number have endured severe reactions and have struggled to obtain treatments for their ailments.
Brianne Dressen suffered so badly after getting AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine on Nov. 4, 2020, that she would often sit in silence in a room in complete darkness.
“My little girl, she sings all the time. And I couldn’t have her around me at all because sound was so unbearable.
And my little boy, my skin was sensitive, so anything that touched my skin was painful, so my little boy, he’d come and try to comfort me and hold my hand, and even that was painful.
My teeth were too sensitive; I couldn’t brush my teeth.
So it’s like all of my sensory facets just overloaded,” Dressen, a preschool teacher who lives in Saratoga Springs, Utah, told The Epoch Times.
“It was the worst experience of my life.”
Pain
Reactions to COVID-19 vaccines often happen soon after administration—one of the reasons health care providers are told to monitor patients for at least 15 minutes after a dose is given.
For most recipients, problems are small, like a headache, and soon go away.
For others, the pain has still not subsided.
“Right now, all I do is work. That’s all I can do,” Erin Sullivan, a speech pathologist in Connecticut who received Moderna’s jab on Jan. 6, 2021, told The Epoch Times.
“Everyone around me, like family, are doing everything else. I’m not cooking, I’m not cleaning, I’m not doing laundry. I’m not taking the kids anywhere. I basically work and then I go to bed.”
Sullivan, who later got a second dose of Pfizer’s jab on the recommendation of an immunologist, has suffered from tingling in her limbs, severe fatigue, and other symptoms for over a year.
Sullivan was diagnosed with an adverse reaction to the vaccine, according to medical records reviewed by The Epoch Times.
She “never had similar symptoms prior to COVID-19 vaccination,” one doctor wrote.
Dressen has dealt with incontinence, limb weakness, and nausea, among other symptoms.
“My reaction started within an hour.
Ended up with pins and needles down my arm, had double vision that night, sensitivity that night.
And over the next 2 1/2 weeks, my symptoms progressed to the point where I had extreme tachycardia, blood pressure fluctuations, temperature fluctuations.
My sound sensitivity and light sensitivity became so severe I had to be confined to my bedroom 24/7,” Dressen said.
Dressen was diagnosed by a doctor at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with post-vaccine neuropathy, or nerve damage, according to medical records reviewed by The Epoch Times.
Dressen was showing “persistent neurological symptoms following SARS-CoV-2 vaccine,” one note penned by an NIH doctor said. SARS-CoV-2 is another name for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19.
Maddie de Garay’s life was thrown into turmoil after receiving her second Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shot on Jan. 20, 2021.
The litany of issues included paresthesia, back pain, and abdominal pain.
“My back hurt, my stomach hurt, my head hurt. I had a fever of like 101-something,” Maddie, 13, told The Epoch Times. “My toes were numb and they were ice cold and they were white, and same for my fingertips.”
The girl’s symptoms have persisted. She uses a wheelchair because it’s become impossible to walk. She’s lost feeling in the lower half of her body. Other parts often aggrieve her.
In a visit to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, one of the Pfizer trial sites, the day after the vaccination, Maddie was diagnosed with “adverse effect of vaccine,” according to medical records reviewed by The Epoch Times.
The following month, another doctor wrote that Maddie was suffering from “many prolonged and significant post COVID vaccine symptoms.”
But references to the vaccine began to disappear in later visits, and Dr. Robert Frenck, the principal investigator for Pfizer’s trials at the hospital,
told Maddie’s parents in a phone call in May 2021 that “the doctors that have seen her so far have not found something where they thought it was research-related, is what they all were telling me.”
“One of the first ones says, it was related to the vaccine trial,” Patrick de Garay, Maddie’s father, responded.
All the doctors who treated patients in this story declined to speak to The Epoch Times, did not respond to inquiries, or could not be reached.
Many of the vaccine-injured experience improvement at one time or another, but some who spoke to The Epoch Times described regular relapses.
Hertz reported an improvement in late 2021, which she attributed primarily to time passing since receiving the vaccine.
“Unfortunately, I have taken a turn for the worse a month or two ago,” she told The Epoch Times via email on Feb. 17.
Hertz was diagnosed with “presumed post COVID reaction” in early 2021, according to medical records.
After visiting other specialists, she eventually received a diagnosis of mast cell activation syndrome triggered by the vaccine.
Symptoms of the syndrome include trouble breathing and low blood pressure.
Among the First
Dressen and Maddie both participated in vaccine clinical trials.
Like them, other vaccine-injured were among the first to get one of the shots.
On Dec. 11, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency use authorization to the vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech.
A week later, the agency cleared Moderna’s jab.
The authorization letters acknowledged the vaccines were “investigational” but said reviews of clinical trials identified no safety concerns and pointed to it being “reasonable to believe” that the vaccines “may be effective” to prevent infection from the virus that causes COVID-19.
Hope soared that the vaccines would be the tool to crush the CCP virus.
Herd immunity was the goal, with vaccine-conferred immunity the primary piece, according to top U.S. officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Early adopters thought getting vaccinated would contribute to ending the COVID-19 pandemic.
Many had family members who, due to underlying medical conditions or age, were among the most vulnerable to COVID-19.
Some were high-risk themselves.
“I had lost really close loved ones to COVID, and this was my saving grace to help contribute to ending this pandemic,” Angelia Desselle told The Epoch Times.
Desselle received Pfizer’s vaccine on Jan. 5, 2021.
As manager of an outpatient surgery center in Louisiana, she stayed on top of updates regarding the vaccines, including declarations by health authorities that they were both safe and effective.
She trusted them.
She went to get vaccinated during her lunch break.
Other people who got the vaccine early also put their faith in the U.S. government, vaccine makers, and the health care community.
Hertz, a longtime doctor, jumped on an early opportunity to get vaccinated.
Though she had recently retired, she thought she might need to go back to work in the future.
And, she says, she “completely trusted our system and believed the FDA was honest and decent.”
Andrea Rositas was in a medical program when she got Moderna’s vaccine on Jan. 31, 2021, at Southwestern College, a community college in Chula Vista, California.
Nurses ahead of her in the program said Rositas should get vaccinated. They said it was safe.
Stephanie de Garay told The Epoch Times that she believed that if anything went wrong, trial participants would “be in the best hands.”
“If you’re going to have anything happen, the best time would be in a trial, because they would do everything they could to get you better, and to figure out why.
Because that’s the whole point of a trial,” she said.
“That’s not what happened.”
Dressen said she enrolled in the AstraZeneca trial because “I trusted what the doctors said, and I wanted this pandemic to be over.”
“And the way that it was presented to the world was, ‘This vaccine’s going to end the pandemic.’ I mean, my kids are stuck at home, they can’t leave, we’re wearing masks.
I work in a school.
I see how it’s affecting elementary-aged kids,” she said.
“I trusted the government and I trusted the doctors.
I don’t anymore.”
The vaccine-injured have repeatedly contacted federal officials and the vaccine companies about their afflictions.
They feel neither the government nor the companies have done enough to address vaccine injuries.
AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Moderna did not respond to requests for comment for this article.
... Initial visits to doctors often yielded little but frustration. Doctors found it difficult to ascertain the conditions and their causes.
Many diagnosed patients with anxiety.
Rositas says she was told by the CDC after a review of her records that she suffered from an adverse reaction.
She showed the update to several doctors.
They’d tell her, “Oh it’s just anxiety,” she recalled.
She said that hurt, especially because that’s the same thing a nurse told her right after the reaction.
Eventually, Rositas was diagnosed with a reaction to Moderna’s vaccine, according to a letter from Sharp Health Care reviewed by The Epoch Times.
Maddie recalled one doctor who entered her room and told her, “You are 13. You should not be crying and freaking out over this.
You have anxiety and this is all anxiety, and you need to stop hyperventilating, or else we’re going to shove a tube down your throat and put you on a ventilator.”
“They assume that it’s just anxiety, so they pump her with medicine, which makes her sicker,” Stephanie de Garay said.
A survey Dressen’s group, REACT19, conducted among its members found over 80 percent said they were diagnosed during early examinations with anxiety.
“My anxiety diagnosis plagued me clearly until I went to the NIH,” or about seven months, Dressen said.
Dressen has become a leading advocate for people experiencing problems after getting vaccinated, becoming increasingly knowledgeable about the matters.
She’s even had some doctors refer patients to her.
In exchanges with Dr. Janet Woodock, a top official at the FDA, Dressen has outlined what she sees as issues with the vaccine clinical trials and the vaccine injuries.
“I’ve told her about the fact that I am a preschool teacher, just to let you know, I’m not qualified as a medical professional whatsoever.
But I have Ivy League physicians referring sick vaccine injured patients to me for medical care,” Dressen said at a recent panel hearing in Washington.
“If that in itself doesn’t tell Janet Woodcock, that the system is broken, I don’t know what will.”
Sullivan also had fruitless consultations.
In one case, she went to see a rheumatologist while displaying classic symptoms of mast cell activation syndrome—the same issue that she and Hertz, among others, have since been diagnosed with.
“He didn’t look into it at all.
He held my hands and told me
I should do yoga,” Sullivan said.
Growing Interest
Establishing definitive links between vaccines and post-vaccination conditions can be difficult, but more researchers have become interested in investigating confirmed or suspected vaccine injuries.
The number of injury reports has grown over time, along with vaccinations overall.
Some 943,000 reports of nervous system disorders following COVID-19 vaccination were reported to VAERS, through Feb. 4, according to a search done through the MedAlert engine.
The disorders, as classified by the Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities, include infections like meningitis and brain injuries like Bell’s palsy.
Bell’s palsy and Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) were detected at elevated rates in recipients of the AstraZeneca vaccine, researchers in the United Kingdom analyzing English vaccination records found in 2021.
They also said the data pointed to Pfizer recipients having a heightened risk of stroke.
A different set of researchers, analyzing U.S. data, found an elevated risk of GBS for Johnson & Johnson recipients.
GBS, a rare neurological disorder, has been detected in some Americans who received Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine and began to be listed on fact sheets for the vaccine in July 2021.
“A wide spectrum of serious neurological complications has been reported following COVID-19 vaccination,” one review of studies on the topic stated.
A number of case reports have been reported in journals, including a series focusing on four post-vaccination events that researchers described as “likely due to the vaccines.”
... “COVID vaccines cause neurological side effects,” Dr. Josef Finsterer, a neurologist at Klinik Landstrasse in Austria who conducted a review of studies detailing post-vaccination neurological events, told The Epoch Times in an email.
Mechanisms
Experts, though, still aren’t sure about the mechanisms that cause the conditions.
One cause could be excessive production of spike proteins from the vaccines in the spleen.
The protein gets released in exosomes
—tiny nanoparticles produced and released by cells that mediate cell-cell communication by transferring genetic materials to other cells
—causing inflammation of nerves in the brain, according to Stephanie Seneff, a senior research scientist at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
In this scenario, the spike proteins are toxic as they act as prion-like proteins, which become abnormal as a result of mis-folding and typically lead to neurodegenerative disorders.
“The immune cells that are in the spleen make spike protein because they can’t stop doing it, release them into exosomes, and then those exosomes … go up to the brain.
They go up to the brain and they infect all these nerves in the brain … causing all of those symptoms that are manifesting,” said Seneff,
whose paper reviewing possible consequences of the vaccines was published in 2021.
She worries about both short-term and long-term side effects.
Finsterer said molecular mimicry, or a vaccine targeting not just the virus but the recipient’s molecular pattern, could be the cause of GBS.
Blood clots in the brain’s venous sinuses, one of the more common neurological side effects, may stem from the same processes unfolding as after COVID-19 infection, he proposed.
Dr. William Murphy, an immunology researcher at the University of California, Davis, floated anti-idiotype antibodies
—an antibody that binds to another antibody
—as a cause of both lingering problems after COVID-19 infection and post-vaccination issues.
Murphy drew on Neils Jerne’s network theory, which states that antibodies can not only bind to an antigen (such as a virus or a spike protein)
but also attach to other antibodies to elicit the production of anti-antibodies that may result in adverse effects.
When the immune system activates the antibody response to an antigen, that specific response induces “downstream antibody responses” producing anti-idiotype antibodies.
These secondary antibodies become a problem when their antigen-binding region “resembles that of the original antigens themselves.”
“However, as a result of this mimicry, Ab2 [anti-idiotype] antibodies also have the potential to bind the same receptor that the original antigen was targeting.
Ab2 antibodies binding to the original receptor on normal cells therefore have the potential to mediate profound effects on the cell that could result in pathologic changes,
particularly in the long term—long after the original antigen itself has disappeared,” Murphy wrote in a recent article.
Murphy told The Epoch Times via email that research into post-vaccination effects “may indeed give insights on long COVID as they may be by the same or similar mechanisms
and if we understand the immunology underlying these effects we can then figure out ways to possibly treat and also prevent by altering vaccine strategies.”
Related article:
US Agencies Quietly Studying Reports
of Post-Vaccination Neurological Issues
Updated: February 21, 2022
"Two U.S. agencies have been quietly studying neurological problems that have appeared in people who have had COVID-19 vaccines, The Epoch Times has found.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) have been conducting separate research projects into post-vaccination neurological issues,
which have manifested with symptoms like facial paralysis and brain fog and have been linked in some cases with the vaccines, according to emails reviewed by The Epoch Times.
One attempt to gain understanding of a problem that experts around the world are struggling to understand is being carried out by Dr. Janet Woodcock, who was acting commissioner of the FDA until Feb. 17.
Woodcock, now the FDA’s principal deputy director, has been personally evaluating neurologic side effects from the COVID-19 vaccines since at least Sept. 13, 2021, according to the emails,
many of which have not been reported on previously.
FDA epidemiologists are also gathering data to look into the issues, according to messages from Dr. Peter Marks, another top FDA official.
A team at the NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), meanwhile, started seeing patients reporting vaccine injuries for a study in early 2021 after receiving complaints shortly after the vaccines were made available.
A portion of the patients was examined in person at the Bethesda, Maryland, facility.
None of the reviews or studies appear to have been announced, and health officials have said little about them publicly,
despite a growing recognition among experts that at least some issues are likely linked to the vaccines.
FDA
Woodcock was aware of reports of post-vaccination issues by April 16, 2021, according to the emails.
Woodcock said she was sorry for the ordeals people were going through and that she was trying to find ways to examine what was happening.
Eventually, she disclosed that she was working on an evaluation of “neurologic side effects from the COVID 19 vaccines,” according to a Sept. 16, 2021, email reviewed by The Epoch Times.
Prodded by people with diagnosed vaccine injuries, Woodcock insisted she was still working on the project.
“I am awaiting some information from the epidemiologists that I expect to get tomorrow,” she wrote on Nov. 16, 2021.
“We are having difficulty pinning down these nervous system-related events that have been brought to our attention.
I’ve asked for specific searches of the reports we get both from here and ex-U.S. (as these vaccines have been used in many countries) as well as from trials, where oversight of participants is greater.”
Woodcock said she was aware that people who suffer issues after getting vaccinated were looking for guidance on treatment but that there was “not a lot of certainty about what causes the symptoms.”
Woodcock confirmed to The Epoch Times in an email that the evaluation is still ongoing and has not been completed.
“When we know something definitive, we will put out a statement if warranted,” she said.
The FDA regulates vaccines, medical devices, and cosmetics, in addition to other products.
Marks, who heads the FDA’s center in charge of regulating vaccines, wrote in one email in November 2021 that epidemiologists at the FDA are “looking into this.”
“I work closely with them, and know that they are very committed to understanding whatever adverse events might be attributable to the vaccines that we regulate,” he added.
Marks has met with patients reporting vaccine injuries on multiple occasions, according to emails reviewed by The Epoch Times.
He has been alerted to both cases and studies regarding potential vaccine injuries. He often writes that the FDA will work through the papers and keep following up.
“We will continue to carefully evaluate all serious reports of adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination and are committed to transparency about any findings,” he said in one missive.
Marks declined to answer questions, forwarding them to FDA spokespersons.
A spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email that the systems in place to monitor the safety of COVID-19 vaccines have identified several issues “potentially associated with vaccination,”
including the neurological disorder known as Guillain-Barré syndrome,
the combination of blood clotting and low blood platelet levels known as thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS),
and several forms of heart inflammation, including myocarditis.
“The chance of having these events occur is very low,” the spokesperson said.
“To date, the systems for monitoring COVID-19 vaccine safety have not identified additional safety signals for serious neurological outcomes following COVID-19 vaccination.”
FDA epidemiologists and experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continuously analyze data from the passive reporting system known as the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) to identify potential signals
that would suggest a need for more in-depth study and consult with NIH experts about the analyses, according to the FDA.
Reports to VAERS have spiked since the COVID-19 vaccines became available, and some patients who filed VAERS reports told The Epoch Times that nobody followed up with them.
... Studies show the number of reports to VAERS under represents problems following vaccination.
As proof that “signals of rare adverse events can be detected,” the spokesperson pointed to how the government identified six adverse event reports, including three deaths, or of TTS following vaccination with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
The CDC lists only one adverse event as likely having “a causal relationship” with a vaccine.
That’s TTS and the Johnson & Johnson shot.
‘Neurological Side Effects’
Dr. Avindra Nath, clinical director of the NIH’s NINDS, headed a team that examined patients who experienced serious neurological issues.
Some patients flew to Bethesda, Maryland, for in-person examinations, while others consulted with NIH experts remotely.
Nath and Dr. Farinaz Safavi, one of Nath’s top deputies, have said they believe the issues are linked to the vaccines.
“We started an effort at NIH to look at neurological side effects of COVID-19 vaccines,” Safavi said in an email to one of the patients on March 3, 2021.
“We believe the symptoms to be real.
That is the reason we have been treating patients,” Nath said in a different message on July 27, 2021.
Patients initially expressed gratitude to the team for helping them.
Many had struggled to get care from local physicians when detailing how they got vaccinated before the problems started.
“Finally at the NIH, I was able to get appropriate diagnoses,” Brianne Dressen, a preschool teacher who lives in Utah, told The Epoch Times.
“After I was able to get those appropriate diagnoses from lead researchers in COVID, my doctors started taking me seriously.”
Medical records from Dressen’s visit shows NIH doctors diagnosed her with “persistent neurological symptoms following SARS-CoV-2 vaccine” and “post-vaccine neuropathy.”
SARS-CoV-2 is another name for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes the disease COVID-19.
Neuropathy is nerve damage that can affect patients’ nervous systems and lead to symptoms including weak limbs, vision loss, and loss of muscle control.
Dr. Danice Hertz, a retired gastroenterologist who lives in California, was seen virtually by NIH experts.
They did not give her a definitive diagnosis.
But Safavi wrote in one message to Hertz,
“What is clear here [is] that you have developed immediate reaction to the vaccine with some systemic symptoms continued by evolution of neuropathic features.”
“We know as a fact that immune-mediated neurological complications can happen post vaccination and post infection,” she added.
The examinations were done under a study protocol that started in 2015 called “Natural History Study of Inflammatory and Infectious Diseases of the Nervous System.”
Nath told The Epoch Times via email that his team examined about 10 patients, though he gave a different number to Science magazine.
Other people who experienced problems after being vaccinated told The Epoch Times that attempts to get help from the NIH or other agencies weren’t successful.
Angelia Desselle of Louisiana, for instance, was told she would be able to travel to NINDS and be seen but stopped hearing from the institute before the visit was finalized.
The NIH is a medical research agency that works to examine diseases and reduce health burdens. NINDS focuses on brain and nervous system problems.
Disappointment
Even among those examined, the excitement of connecting with top researchers and government officials turned to disappointment and frustration
when repeated queries yielded few signs of progress on research into post-vaccination problems.
Woodcock and Marks would often only provide updates after being prodded, and neither have thrust the conversation happening in private into the public realm.
Nath and Safavi also grew distant as 2021 wore on.
They eventually stopped examining patients.
Nath urged Dressen to stop referring people to him, telling her that “we do not have any clinical trial for … vaccine related complications.”
Dressen responded in January that she will “always be indebted to you and what you did for me,” crediting Nath, alongside her husband, with keeping her alive.
However, she added, her “heart is shattered.”
“I am more confused now than ever about what my active and willing engagement in the scientific process actually meant, or has led to,” she wrote.
“This will be the last email I send.”
“Looking back on this, I can see how unethical it was even when they were helping us,” Dressen told The Epoch Times.
Private calls and communication with physicians treating patients for reported vaccine injuries took place,
but no broader recommendations were unveiled, and federal officials have continued pushing vaccination for virtually all Americans.
Hertz described being shocked about the lack of public acknowledgement of the post-vaccination issues by the FDA,
which cleared the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines in December 2020 and has since authorized Johnson & Johnson’s shot.
“They refuse to acknowledge what’s happening to so many thousands of people,” Hertz told The Epoch Times.
“We’ve been completely abandoned.
And we’re despondent over it.”
Conflicting Messages
Patients feel government officials and scientists are delivering one message to the public and another in private.
Nath, for instance, told Science magazine recently that he’s not sure whether the vaccines led to patients’ serious health problems.
“You have to be very careful,” Nath told the magazine, because “the implications are huge” in making “the wrong conclusion.”
When making a virtual presentation in May 2021, Nath seemed to sound a different tune.
Showing a slide titled: “Can COVID-19 vaccines cause neurological complications,” with some of the complications like Bell’s palsy listed, Nath said that the vaccines “are very safe, but we started to see some neurological complications with them.”
Nath also co-wrote a paper published in July 2021 noting that “neurologic complications of these vaccines,” including strokes and dysautonomia, a nervous system disorder, were being reported to VAERS.
And in an email on Sept. 16, 2021, Nath seemed to let some exasperation show while indicating the vaccines have caused some adverse events.
“Ordinarily when any drug is released, it is the manufacturers responsibility to investigate and treat the side effects.
Where are the vaccine manufacturers in all of this?
Have you tried to contacting them?
It cannot be the government’s responsibility to pick up after them.
They are a [for] profit company and they should be the ones taking change [sic].
Don’t you think?” he wrote.
Dressen said she sees different standards when associating conditions with COVID-19 versus linking them with COVID-19 vaccines.
“It’s pretty convenient that those associations can be easily tied to COVID and it’s also kind of strange because Nath himself told me many times that it’s an immune mediated process to spike protein,”
which is part of COVID-19 and the vaccines, she said, adding that she’s looking forward to the data being published.
Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Under federal law, vaccine manufacturers are immune from liability lawsuits unless “willful misconduct” takes place.
The government established the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program to compensate people injured by vaccines, but no claims for injuries from vaccines or other countermeasures were approved as of Jan. 1.
Four were denied because “the standard of proof for causation was not met and/or a covered injury was not sustained,” the program’s website says.
‘Left Out in the Cold’
“These victims of vaccine injury are left out in the cold and I can imagine how upset they are,” Barbara Loe Fisher, president and co-founder of the National Vaccine Information Center,
which pushes for transparency surrounding vaccines, told The Epoch Times.
“NIH and CDC should be making investigation into the reports of brain dysfunction after this COVID vaccine the highest priority,
and FDA should immediately release the 450,000 pages of Pfizer clinical trial data on Comirnaty,” she added,
referring to the FDA slow-walking production documents from Pfizer’s trial and using the brand name for Pfizer’s vaccine.
Asked whether his team has made progress in identifying why some people suffer neurological issues after getting a COVID-19 vaccine, Nath told The Epoch Times,
“We do not know what makes some people vulnerable to complications from vaccines in general.”
“This will require large epidemiological studies to determine comparisons between vaccines,” he added in response to a question about one of the vaccines being linked to more cases than the others.
Nath said his team stopped treating patients because “clinical care is best provided by clinicians in the community or other academic institutions.”
Nath submitted his team’s findings as an observational case series to two medical journals in March 2021, but neither accepted the manuscript.
“No reason was given,” a spokesperson for NANDS, Nath’s agency, told The Epoch Times in an email.
They declined to name the journals.
The Epoch Times has filed Freedom of Information Act requests for the manuscript and additional missives from Nath and Safavi.
The study was still ongoing in mid-2021, and Nath told Science magazine that the team sent a case series of 23 patients to a third journal in January.
... “COVID vaccines cause neurological side effects,” Dr. Josef Finsterer, a neurologist at Klinik Landstrasse in Austria, told The Epoch Times in an email.
He recently published a review of studies detailing post-vaccination neurological events."
