{"id":10262,"date":"2024-03-21T15:52:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T20:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/?post_type=jtf_topics&p=10262"},"modified":"2024-07-21T13:45:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T18:45:57","slug":"how-many-covid-boosters-are-too-many","status":"publish","type":"jtf_topics","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/jtf_topics\/how-many-covid-boosters-are-too-many\/","title":{"rendered":"How many COVID boosters are too many?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RFK Jr. is\u00a0attacking<\/a> a political rival by claiming that people are receiving too many COVID vaccines to their own detriment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”The Facts:” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text css=””]\n

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RFK Jr. claims that many have had myocarditis, pericarditis, and brain inflammation from the COVID vaccine. Can the vaccine cause some of these adverse events? This global <\/span>study<\/a>\u00a0of 99 million people tells us these are real but rare adverse events. The most commonly expressed concern about multiple boosters over a person\u2019s lifetime is the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis.<\/span><\/h3>\n
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However, we do not make decisions about vaccines based solely on a possible rare adverse event. We ask ourselves whether or not the benefits of vaccinating (avoiding the risks of disease) outweigh the risks of vaccinating.<\/p>\n

The above study looked at 99 million people with a combined total of over 184 vaccine doses.\u00a0They looked at how many adverse events happened and compared that to the usual number of such events in the general population. This usual number, or what they expected without vaccination, was figured out using information from before the COVID-19 vaccine came out, mostly from 2015 to 2019. To say that the COVID vaccine causes more problems than it solves, you need to compare the chances of having an adverse event to the vaccine with the dangers of COVID infection.<\/p>\n

Studies<\/a>\u00a0show that getting COVID is much riskier than getting the vaccine when it comes to heart issues like myocarditis and pericarditis. Also, most of the time, if someone does get myocarditis from the vaccine, it happens within a few days, is pretty mild, and gets better on its own.<\/p>\n

Importantly,\u00a0findings<\/a>\u00a0from Israel suggest the risk of myocarditis after the third dose of some mRNA vaccines is much lower than after the second dose.<\/p>\n

The brain inflammation he is referring to is\u00a0Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis<\/a>\u00a0(ADEM). It is an autoimmune disease\u00a0wherein inflammation attacks\u00a0the\u00a0brain and spinal cord. It can occur after any bacterial or viral attack. ADEM\u00a0is extremely rare,\u00a0and\u00a0more than half<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0ADEM\u00a0cases occur after a viral or bacterial infection. Most cases occur 4-14 days following infection. The signals found in the study indicate the rates of ADEM, if caused by vaccines is about 1 case in 1.75 million people. With over 7 million people dead of COVID since the start of pandemic, we question RFK Jr\u2019s understanding of risk analysis.<\/p>\n

The brain inflammation being discussed is called Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), a very rare autoimmune condition where inflammation affects the brain and spinal cord. It usually happens after someone gets a bacterial or viral infection. The\u00a0global study<\/a>\u00a0suggests that if vaccines do cause ADEM, it\u2019s extremely rare\u2014about 1 case in 1.75 million people.<\/p>\n

A systematic literature\u00a0review<\/a>\u00a0suggests that ADEM following COVID infection is more dangerous.\u00a0While many ADEM patients generally recover well, those with COVID-associated ADEM had a mortality rate of about 10%. This suggests that COVID might lead to more severe forms of ADEM.<\/p>\n

But are boosters really a good idea? We leave you with a\u00a0Newsweek<\/a>\u00a0quote from our Scientific Advisory Board member, Dr. William Schaffner:\u00a0\u201cLook at influenza. The\u00a0influenza vaccine\u00a0is something that we use in millions upon millions of doses around the world on an annual basis. And we update that vaccine using the same process each year. And those updated vaccines are not tested in people, but their manufacture is under the very intense scrutiny of the FDA. We\u2019re doing the same thing with [COVID] vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Claims that multiple COVID boosters cause severe health issues are misleading. Vaccination benefits outweigh the rare risks of adverse events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","jtf_topic_subjects":[189,188,218],"class_list":["post-10262","jtf_topics","type-jtf_topics","status-publish","hentry","jtf_topic_subjects-covid-19","jtf_topic_subjects-mrna-vaccines","jtf_topic_subjects-vaccine-safety","entry","no-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jtf_topics"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10344,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10262\/revisions\/10344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jtf_topic_subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topic_subjects?post=10262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}