Cue 20 million people claiming this happened to several people they know.

Taking ANY vaccine has risks, and these vaccines even more so, considering their untested nature when they were introduced. We had to trust the science, but it was still a gamble.

I took the vaccine knowing that side effects were possible. That was a risk I felt comfortable with, knowing that everyone else who took it faced that same level of risk and uncertainty.

It sucks that some had these side effects, but the effectiveness of the vaccine has saved countless more lives.

Let’s not forget that before the vaccine, Covid was quite deadly. We had literal mass graves, trucks full of bodies, mass cremations that couldn’t keep up with the death toll. Between that and the vaccine risk… the choice was easy. We came way closer to catastrophe than we like to think about.

For anyone who doesn’t want to read the whole thing or misunderstood the heading. Here’s all you need to know

confirmed how rare known vaccine complications are, with researchers confirming that the benefits of Covid-19 vaccines still “vastly outweigh the risks”.

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extremely small risk of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis of 0.78 cases for every million doses, and 1.82 cases per million doses for transverse myelitis.

According to the conspiracy people on LinkedIn hundreds of millions of vaccinated people are already dead. I’ve had like four so I probably only have minutes to live.

Possibly I’m safe due to being in Australia, a country that doesn’t exist.

Oh great now my brother is going to quadruple down on not vaccinating any of his many kids

Wording in that headline, SUCKS.

Leading with "side effects" rather than the size/strength of the study and many readers will just ignore "very rare".

Is this the largest study of its kind? If so, lead with that as well. Outlet is purposefully flirting with this line to get clicks from both the rational and batshit sides of this "argument".

I wouldn't be surprised if the side effects were a milder version of what those specific people would have had if they had the actual live virus.

Your odds of dying while swimming, running, or jogging are about the same (1 in a million). And similar to those activities, the risk exists, but the benefits vastly outweigh the risks so it's kind of irrelevant.

Meanwhile I had 4 different types of shots, 3 of them Chinese and no side effects

Study concluded that most people are fucking stupid and you shouldn't listen to them, especially when it comes to assessing risk using statistical methods.

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis and transverse myelitis following COVID-19 vaccination - A self-controlled case series analysis - doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.01.099. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38350771/

Abstract

Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM) and Transverse Myelitis (TM) are within the group of immune mediated disorders of acquired demyelinating syndromes. Both have been described in temporal association following various vaccinations in case reports and case series and have been evaluated in observational studies. A recent analysis conducted by The Global Vaccine Data Network (GVDN) observed an excess of ADEM and TM cases following the adenoviral vectored ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) and mRNA-1273 vaccines, compared with historically expected background rates from prior to the pandemic. Further epidemiologic studies were recommended to explore these potential associations. We utilized an Australian vaccine datalink, Vaccine Safety Health-Link (VSHL), to perform a self-controlled case series analysis for this purpose. VSHL was selected for this analysis as while VSHL data are utilised for GVDN association studies, they were not included in the GVDN observed expected analyses. The VSHL dataset contains vaccination records sourced from the Australian Immunisation Register, and hospital admission records from the Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset for 6.7 million people. These datasets were used to determine the relative incidence (RI) of G040 (ADEM) and G373 (TM) ICD-10-AM coded admissions in the 42-day risk window following COVID-19 vaccinations as compared to control periods either side of the risk window. We observed associations between ChAdOx1 adenovirus vector COVID-19 vaccination and ADEM (all dose RI: 3.74 [95 %CI 1.02,13.70]) and TM (dose 1 RI: 2.49 [95 %CI: 1.07,5.79]) incident admissions. No associations were observed between mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and ADEM or TM. These findings translate to an extremely small absolute risk of ADEM (0.78 per million doses) and TM (1.82 per million doses) following vaccination; any potential risk of ADEM or TM should be weighed against the well-established protective benefits of vaccination against COVID-19 disease and its complications. This study demonstrates the value of the GVDN collaboration leveraging large population sizes to examine important vaccine safety questions regarding rare outcomes, as well as the value of linked population level datasets, such as VSHL, to rapidly explore associations that are identified.

Keywords: Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis; Adverse reactions; COVID-19; Data linkage; Transverse Myelitis; Vaccination.