The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday said it is “very unlikely” the Pfizer omicron booster carries a risk of stroke for seniors after it launched an investigation into a preliminary safety concern detected by one of its monitoring systems.
The CDC, in a statement posted to its website Friday, said a surveillance system called the Vaccine Safety Datalink detected a possible risk for stroke in people ages 65 and older who received the Pfizer booster shot targeting the omicron Covid variant. A CDC spokesperson said this issue was first detected in late November.
By mid-December, the CDC concluded the concern was persisting and launched an investigation into whether seniors are more likely to have a stroke in the first 21 days after receiving the Pfizer booster, the spokesperson said. A similar preliminary signal was not detected for Moderna’s booster.
The VSD monitoring system found that 130 people ages 65 and older had a stroke within 21 days of receiving the Pfizer omicron booster among about 550,000 seniors who received the shot, the CDC spokesperson said. No deaths have been reported. The Washington Post earlier reported the news. ...
The agency spokesperson said investigators hope to have a clearer picture and more data in the coming weeks.
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Again, notice the limited scope "within 21 days".
Hey, if I don't get sick within 90 days of reception the jab worked, right?
And if I don't have a stroke within 21 days of reception, no problem, right?
Right?
The people have been voting on this with their feet.
From the peak in April 2021, the vaccine uptake rate in the US has collapsed from 1.06% to 0.04%, or over 96%.
The current rate annualized would mean just 48.5 million Americans per year will get a jab, about 14.6% of the 332 million population.
Meanwhile, France, 80.6% of which has received at least one dose of a vaccine to date, ranks 37th to date for deaths per million at 2438.
Germany, 77.8% of which has received at least one dose of a vaccine, ranks 50th at 1975.
The United States, 80.9% of which has received at least one dose of a vaccine, ranks 12th WORST in the world at 3439.
Vaccine coverage doesn't seem obviously correlated with outcomes.
