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the settings. Side effects of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have been reported by the manufacturers
to occur more commonly after the second booster dose. This is because the body has already
developed some antibodies from the first dose. I got my first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
in the third week of December 2020. I had absolutely no side effects from the first dose.
I could not even feel the needle injection site. Four weeks later, which was five days ago
from the recording of this video, I got my second booster COVID-19 vaccine dose. The experience
was quite different. Literally six hours after getting the second vaccine dose I started to
get significant pain in my left upper arm and that progressed very rapidly within the next few hours,
to the extent that I could not move my whole left arm and I developed muscle aches all over my body.
At the same time I started to have chills and shivers and had a temperature of 38.1 Celsius
which is equivalent to 100.5 Fahrenheit. For the following 24 hours I was in a bad shape,
not able to move at all, not even able to reach out to the phone next to my bed
to ask my family members to bring me water as I felt dehydrated from the sweating. Eventually I
improved by using painkillers and by hydration and now five days after the second injection,
I feel better but still not back to normal, still having left upper arm pain and fatigue.
The first question that came to my mind during the first 24 hours of my ordeal was, how do the
elderly frail population who are currently the top priority for vaccination survive the second
dose of this vaccine? This prompted me to research the subject, the results of which I share with you
in this video. A number of elderly patients across Europe died after receiving the
COVID-19 vaccine. In January 2021, The Norwegian Medicines Agency reported 23 deaths potentially
linked to the Pfizer vaccine, followed a few days later by a report of 20 serious side effects,
As of January 19th there were reports of 71 deaths linked to the Pfizer vaccine across European with
16 in the UK and 12 in Germany. These fatalities occurred in elderly patients with co-morbid
conditions with about 35 percent of the people who died were 90 years old and over, forty six percent
were 80 years old and over, and all were over the age of 70 years. The questions that arise are,
are these deaths really related to the vaccine and could the second dose of the vaccine cause
adverse effects that destabilize these elderly flare patients leading to this.
It is certainly possible but when I looked at the limited information available, I could not
find supporting data, at least not at this time. According to the news reported in the British
Medical Journal, the Norwegian Medicines Agency told them and I quote "the agency has investigated
13 of the deaths so far and concluded that common adverse reactions to mRNA vaccines such as fever,
nausea and diarrhea may have contributed to fatal outcomes in some of the frail patients".
Here in the United States, there have been reports of deaths in the elderly following
COVID-19 vaccination. Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron at the age of 86 had his COVID-19
vaccination on January 5th of 2021. Here is his Twitter post of the vaccination, encouraging
others to do the same. On January 22nd, 13 days after his vaccination he passed away.
At this time of recording of this video, I do not have medical information about the cause of death.
Obviously this is causing a high degree of discomfort and concern among the healthcare
professionals as there is worry that this might cause individuals, especially elderly people,
not to accept vaccination. Another death in the United States occurred in a 56 year old physician
in Miami Beach in Florida, who died on January 3rd 2021, about 13 days after receiving the
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Here is a Facebook post about the incident, posted by his wife. He was
healthy and he developed petechial hemorrhage in his feet and hands three days after vaccination.
Petechial hemorrhages are small bleeding spots as shown here. When he was checked at the hospital,
his blood platelets levels were zero. Platelets control bleeding and in normal individuals
the level ranges from 150 thousand to 400 thousand per microliter of blood.
He was diagnosed to have suffered from "Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura", a rare reaction
to vaccination in general. Attempts to raise his platelets level failed and eventually he
bled into the brain leading to his death. This is a very unfortunate and rare side effect of
vaccination in general, not specifically related to COVID-19 vaccination. My take home message to
you is this. We risks stratify elderly and frail patients undergoing heart surgery and procedures
before accepting to proceed with the surgery, as the stress of the surgery might stress the
frail body and lead to death. Some patients are refused surgery based on this increased risk.
It is possible that the body's reaction to the COVID-19 vaccination might lead to a stress level
in frail bodies leading to this. At this time we do not have data to support or refute the theory.
However the risk of not vaccinating our elderly is much higher than the potential risk of death
after vaccination. Until we get more information, I personally feel that we should continue
vaccinating our elderly and maybe consider a single dose vaccination only in the very frail,
as the risk of reactions to the vaccine is much higher after the second booster dose. If you
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