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Approve vaccines, at any cost
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has come under pressure to approve the Pfizer vaccine, according to confidential regulatory documents posted online by Le Monde. Some of these documents question the quality of the vaccine.
However, a significant number of senior EU officials continued to call for the vaccine to be approved as soon as possible. For example, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has stated in an ultimatum that the Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna vaccines must be approved by 2020. According to one of the EMA staff members, this was despite the warning that both products were “still deficient”.
According to Le Monde, most of the problems were with the Pfizer vaccine. Especially after it became clear that there were differences in the composition of the products supplied by the commercial batch and used in clinical trials.
From facial paralysis to death
The latest information related to vaccination also raises concerns.
On January 14, it was learned that 23 people died in Norway from COVID-19 vaccinated with Comirnaty, a drug developed by the German company BioNTech and the American Pfizer.
January 15 Germany reported the death of 10 elderly people who had also been injected with a vaccine that supposedly protected against the coronavirus.
On the same day, at least 100 people in the Netherlands were reported to feel unwell after being vaccinated with Pfizer, complaining of headaches and fatigue, and some having allergic reactions.
On January 17, the United States and Israel shared negative experiences. The US Federal Database Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System found that 55 vaccines with Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech were fatal.
Israel was the leader in vaccination last month, but now the situation may change. The Jerusalem Post, citing the Israeli Health Ministry, said that at least 13 of the country’s citizens vaccinated with Pfizer had their faces paralyzed. According to doctors, this side effect is even more common. An unidentified Israeli resident told reporters that his face was paralyzed for 28 hours after the vaccination. “I can’t say it’s completely gone, but nothing else has happened, just how much the injection site hurts,” the man said, now wondering if a second vaccination was appropriate.
Benefits for the individual or benefits for society?
Speaking of vaccines, Professor Hematologist, Dr. Eduardas Vaitkus emphasized the need to assign benefits to the individual and society.
“The person who is vaccinated hopes that they do not get sick and that they benefit. Just be aware that sometimes the vaccine can have side effects that, especially in rare cases, can lead to death. Therefore, the vaccine appears to be useful for a particular individual, but there is a potential threat to health or even life, the professor shared. – Taking Lithuania, if 3 million are vaccinated. of its population and 3 died from the vaccine and 3,000 did not die from the disease, from a social point of view, we have an astonishing effectiveness since only three died. It is good for society, but for the benefit of the dead.
According to him, the economic benefits of vaccines can be evaluated in two ways.
“We have vaccinated 3 million. And they were all sick one day less, so they could work. Significant economic benefits for the state and society. On the other hand, in 2008 swine flu in Europe 60 million people have been vaccinated with the vaccine against GSK flu. Most of the children were vaccinated and then 600 children were found to have lost their health. In the UK alone, 60 children have been diagnosed with severe brain damage, disability or death. The UK Government, not the manufacturer of the vaccine, agreed to pay the families of the victims one million pounds each. I wonder how much the Lithuanian state is willing to pay if there is an unforeseen problem for a person who has been vaccinated to be better for the The current Minister of Health is talking about it, but the issue has not been completely resolved, “said the doctor.
He did not find answers to other questions that could influence the decision to vaccinate or not.
“Modernos and Pfizer vaccines use, for the first time, a methodology that injects ribonucleic acid, a genetic material. How much of that substance is injected? How many and what type will it enter? It is promised that it will not infiltrate the cell nucleus, but the cell’s cytoplasm will begin to produce a protein foreign to the cell. Will that protein be secreted only by the cell or will it circulate freely in the blood? How will the body react to this? Can it destroy a cell? If it is not destroyed, will it or will it not recognize that the protein is foreign? – the unanswered questions were named by prof. E.Vaitkus. – Can anyone say exactly how long I will be protected from the virus after vaccination? It would be 80 for me, maybe I’d say that much, but now I’m only 64, I feel great, so I don’t want to be the subject of an experiment at all. “
The doctor based his doubts on the fact that when injecting a substance into the body, an unexpected reaction can always be expected.
“In the past, hospitals used fewer injections and monitored before injecting the full dose of antibiotics. If there were no rejection reactions, inject everything. Today, all vaccine manufacturers emphasize that the vaccine should not be given if a person is sensitive to any of the ingredients. However, vaccination is unknown. It turns out that people agree to get vaccinated not on the basis of evidence, but on the basis of faith, E.Vaitkus noted. – Only someone decided to vaccinate the public and then start monitoring and collecting information. They will likely have some answers in a couple of years. But as viruses mutate during that time, new questions will arise … “
Side effects are natural
Marius Strioga, a principal investigator at the National Cancer Institute’s Immunology Laboratory and a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences, says the side effects of the vaccine are natural.
“Any vaccine can cause side effects like fever or dizziness. It is an expression of a developing immune system. Even, I would say, it is good to have side effects because it shows a strong reaction of the body, said the doctor. – In this case, the vaccine can be compared to pregnancy. When a woman gets pregnant, she often has nausea too, only then no one says it’s bad or dangerous. The same is true of vaccines. “
He also recalled that the vaccine had been tested on thousands of volunteers and no acute side effects had been observed.
“Norway has announced that several people have died, but a thorough investigation is needed here. Only through data collection would it be clear whether they died from the vaccine, comorbidities or other causes. On the other hand, many people have already been vaccinated in Lithuania and no deaths have been recorded. There may have been a short-term reaction between them when the immune system decided to attack the muscle where the vaccine was administered, but there is no theoretical assumption that a coronavirus vaccine can cause more serious side effects than conventional vaccines. Time will tell if there will be long-term reactions, but there is no reason for them to occur, “said Strioga.
Also, he said, genetically modified vaccines have been used successfully for many years to treat other diseases.
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