Did people die after being vaccinated? Can the vaccine help with persistent side effects?

People still have a lot of questions about the COVID-19 vaccines. Local doctor Frank McGeorge is working to answer as much as possible.

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Unfortunately, the answer is no. We are not entirely sure what factors are involved in some people who have prolonged symptoms of a coronavirus infection.

Now that more than 50 million people in the United States have received at least one dose of vaccine,

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published data collected in the V-Safe Monitoring System and the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

From 14 December-Jan. 13, more than 13 million doses of vaccine have been administered. During that time, there were 518 serious events that the vaccine received that were not residents of long-term care. Of the 518 people, there were 35 deaths – 16 to the Pfizer vaccine and 19 to the Moderna vaccine.

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A review of 16 of the reported deaths indicated that underlying heart disease, cancer, stroke, likely pulmonary embolism and otherwise poor health were the cause of death. The remaining 19 are still under investigation.

However, the monitoring systems cannot identify a cause and effect relationship without investigation, but it is still a very small number of deaths among the millions of vaccine doses administered, approximately 0.00003%.

Double masking reduces the amount of breathing drops that are both inhaled and exhaled. If someone is completely vaccinated, the chance of being infected or spreading the virus asymptomatically is dramatically reduced.

At that point, it becomes a matter of personal values.

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