Largest Covid Vaccine Study Finds Links to Health Conditions

@#1 ... "The rare events..." ...

Yup, rare.

On the other hand...

COVID shots protect against COVID-related strokes, heart attacks, study finds (January 2024)
arstechnica.com

... Staying up to date on COVID-19 vaccines can cut the risk of COVID-related strokes, blood clots, and heart attacks by around 50 percent in people ages 65 years or older and in those with a condition that makes them more vulnerable to those events, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The finding, published this week in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, should help ease concerns that the shots may conversely increase the risk of those events -- collectively called thromboembolic events.

In January 2023, the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration jointly reported a preliminary safety signal from their vaccine-monitoring systems that indicated mRNA COVID-19 vaccines may increase the risk of strokes in the 21 days after vaccination of people ages 65 and older.

Since that initial report, that signal decreased, becoming statistically insignificant. Other vaccine monitoring systems, including international systems, have not picked up such a signal. Further studies (summarized here) have not produced clear or consistent data pointing to a link to strokes.

In May, the FDA concluded that the evidence does not support any safety concern and reported that "scientists believe factors other than vaccination might have contributed to the initial finding." ...

@#14 ... with voter ID cards ...

I've no trouble with voter ID requirements.

I've said that many times in the past here. Indeed, Connecticut has required voter ID for years. I have no problem with the requirement.

The problem I have is how voter ID is sometimes implemented to make it more difficult for certain groups of voters (e.g., those who don't usually vote for Republicans) to obtain and use valid voter ID.

@#16 ... What I'm asking is why isn't this a problem in Connecticut if it would be a problem in Oklahoma, for example? ...

Start up a new thread if you'd like. That aspect has been discussed here before.

@#18 ... But they cant/wont, because they don't don't keep meticulous records on those stats. ...

... and your current alias knows that... how?

@#22 ... Can your alias demonstrate to the class that I'm wrong? ...

Can your current alias demonstrate to the class that it is correct in its assertion?

@#41 ... You take one false assumption, and derive a huge set of more invalid assumptions. ...

Projecting again?

:)

@#65 ... Masks are still just as if not more effective than vaccination ...

But wouldn't both masks and vaccination be better than either one individually?

@#70 ... Why did they drop the mask mandate then? ...

Likely because the risk of mass infections had diminished.

The mask mandate was not suggested lightly.

So when the overall risk drops, that mandate is relaxed.

... Shortly after they stopped requiring masks in the workplace was when I caught COVID, even though I and my coworkers were vaccinated. ...

Yeah, that's a problem the CDC now seems to face.

Any suggestions how that problem might be addressed?