Covid vaccine, to ask if this makes you worried?

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www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-19/largest-covid-vaccine-study-yet-finds-links-to-health-conditions?leadSource=uverify%20wall

I'm double vaccinated, had 2 Pfizer but reading articles such as the above and seeing people in the news dying of sudden heart attacks and blood clots makes me really worried.

If I could go back in time, I'm not sure I would get vaxed without waiting for further research.

Anybody else?

Nope, have had 4. Have had Covid twice but mildly. DH too.

Is there a cohort without any vaccinations to measure anything against?

If the vaccine is so terrible why aren’t we still seeing the horrors in hospital that we saw at the beginning of the pandemic and that are being dramatised in Breathless on ITV at the moment.

I know 4 people whose lives have been ruined by Long COVID and this was well before vaccines were rolled out

I was / am in the extremely clinically vulnerable group. I’ve had 6 jabs now. Like many others in the health groups I’m in. I don’t personally know anyone that’s had any complications from the vaccines but I know plenty who have suffered severe issues with covid - and some who have died or have been in ICU for long periods of time and have been left permanently disabled. I am glad I have been vaccinated. Think of the mess we would all be in if we hadn’t been.

I have so many questions about your statement; I'll stick to just two. Are you saying the statistic is less jarring or incorrect simply because they were....old?? Also, do tell us the difference....that these old people who had covid died but not because of covid?

No, I am not worried at all. Scaremongering.

My previously very fit and well DP never fully recovered from Covid and died of a coronary thrombosis 7 months after he had it. No previous history of heart issues in the family, so it was a total shock.

I also knew 2 people, also previously in good health, who died of pulmonary embolism within a few months of having Covid.

I know it's anecdata, but it makes me think that vaccinations are probably less of a risk than Covid. I work in a social care environment, so was vaccinated early and have had a booster every year, as have my colleagues. None of us have had any adverse effects from it.

Inactivity (lockdown) and sitting in a cramped area (working from home in a crap set up) both increase your risk of clots. As others have said, so does a covid infection. So no, I can't get excited by this.

I'd have thought increased alcohol consumption and eating takeaways for recreation is more likely the culprit for this as a result of covid, rather than the jab.

People forget the effect the vaccination programme had on the rates of death & serious illness. Can you remember those first few months & the scenes from Italy & the hospitals here? Remember how scary it all was? Maybe watch Breathless to jog your memories.
Thanks to vaccination it's now become a relatively mild disease (lots of caveats there) where we are mostly able to go about our lives as normal.
Those who are proudly unvaccinated have also been helped by the vaccination programme.

Letting covid run rampant into care homes skewed the age stats, I can assure you many younger people died too. And those older people certainly didn't deserve to die a painful and lonely death just because they were 'old'.

I’ve had 9, I weighed up it was better than. The risk of serious illness due to Covid (I’m immunosuppressed). I’ve also had pneumonia and whooping cough jabs recently for the same reason (as there’s been a whooping cough outbreak). I just have to get on with it.

Bearing in mind that covid knackers your heart and blood then I'm happy to have a tested vaccine.

I'm fully vaccinated and yes I am concerned. There's a lot more information is being drip fed now. I was informed that no corners were cut in the development of the vaccine, I no longer believe that to be true.

These medical problems also occur in people who have not had the vaccine, and many more occur in people who have not had the vaccine but have had covid

No. I really really didn’t want to get covid unvaccinated. Obviously it's not good if there are (potentially serious) side effects but I judged the risks to be far higher for me with covid. I haven't had DS vaccinated yet however as the risk is so low at his age so the balance shifts.

The wackadoodle Covid boards are that way 👉

Not worried about the vaccine, far more worried about covid itself. Like others I have a friend who has long covid from March 2020 (so long before vaccines) and has been left disabled. Previously fit and healthy, we met through a sport we played together. She was seriously ill at the time and basically never recovered, body been ravaged by it. Yes there will be side effects to the vaccines but that's true of any medication - nothing is risk free.

What from I have read they are talking of increased risks, such as you're twice as likely to get a blood clot. That sounds dramatic. But if your risk of getting a blood clot is 0.0000001% and the vaccine changes it to 0.0000002% that is actually a tiny tiny increase of risk. But the headlines say "double the risk" and make it sound completely different to the actual increase in risk.

No this isn’t true.

Im one of those people in that study. I mean l didn’t take part but l gave the ‘chronic fatigue type symptoms’

It happened after 2 vaccines. No one realised what it was the first time, so l had another one and got a much more severe reaction.

I had Covid with no problems. Generally l have a very strong but very volatile immune system. I never ever get coughs or colds.

I’m not concerned because I didn’t have the vaccine …

It isn’t ‘whackadoodle’

Its destroyed my life. I’ve had it confirmed by 3 medical specialists.

I’m so relieved this study has come out. I took one for the team. The government haven’t paid me a penny. I’ve manly been too ill to leave the house for 2 1/2 years.

Sadly that can be the result from any vaccine, my friend has CFS following the HPV vaccine.

Since I had covid, not the vaccine (I had that too but this was straight after getting covid) my digestive system has been f^cked.
Covid killed snd harmed many more people than the vaccine, and all meds come with risks. You’re v naive if you don’t realise that!

No of course not.

Do you recall the ‘side effects’ of Covid? Many many many deaths.

We were vaccinated early (with a vaccine that was nearly 20 years in the making and subject
to the usual regulatory process) and despite caring for hundreds of people with Covid, including intubating them without PPE in a couple of emergencies, I still haven’t been sick from it. If I’ve had it I’m not aware. The vaccine was an amazing result of scientific enquiry over nearly two decades. I remember listening to an interview with one of the main scientists from the Oxford and feeling so bad for her that decades of work were dismissed by a largely science-illiterate group.

I am glad to see that as usual scientists have what they’re meant to do and continued to conduct research after the roll out of a well-researched pharmaceutical product. This is the norm. It’s the anti-vaxxers who exist outside the scientific paradigm who don’t check what they say and do for decades afterwards.