{"id":12299,"date":"2025-06-05T14:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T19:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/?post_type=jtf_topics&#038;p=12299"},"modified":"2025-06-26T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:44:00","slug":"is-the-media-finally-getting-wise-to-covid-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"jtf_topics","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/jtf_topics\/is-the-media-finally-getting-wise-to-covid-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the media finally getting wise to COVID vaccines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row source=&#8221;&#8221; text=&#8221;Clinical Trials&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h2|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:Abril%20Fatface%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221; link=&#8221;&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1708910874436{border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The Claim:&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BGatesIsaPyscho\/status\/1928344449882673418\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsmax report<\/a>\u00a0claims that leaders forced people to take COVID shots instead of trusting natural immunity, hid dangers like heart swelling, said the shots would stop the virus when they didn\u2019t, paid doctors extra to give them, and blocked injured people from suing.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The Facts:&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Natural immunity only appears after you catch the disease, and that means risking a serious infection or even death.\u00a0Getting a vaccine teaches your body to fight the virus without making you dangerously sick.<\/p>\n<p>The mRNA COVID shots can rarely cause mild, short\u2011lived heart swelling, yet heart problems happen more often after a COVID\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart.org\/en\/news\/2022\/08\/22\/covid-19-infection-poses-higher-risk-for-myocarditis-than-vaccines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">infection<\/a>\u00a0itself.\u00a0Almost everyone who gets vaccine\u2011related myocarditis recovers quickly. One\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamacardiology\/fullarticle\/2791253\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a>\u00a0did find that rates of myocarditis were higher in males under 40 after vaccination than after COVID infection. The authors of the paper pointed out that COVID-induced myocarditis had a much\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/a_husby\/status\/1621629462382010368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">higher risk<\/a>\u00a0of heart failure or death than vaccine-induced myocarditis did.\u00a0And many\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahajournals.org\/doi\/full\/10.1161\/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.059970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/voicesforvaccines.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3De17a65409cd8f13ba7e58cc97%26id%3D58100bf73e%26e%3Dfc0735be13&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1710722919327000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3ZSLirQp-kzqi-CjrhsU6B\">studies<\/a>\u00a0often\u00a0explain that\u00a0the\u00a0risks of\u00a0myocarditis\u00a0from COVID far outweigh\u00a0the\u00a0risks of\u00a0myocarditis\u00a0from the vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>COVID\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2800816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/voicesforvaccines.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3De17a65409cd8f13ba7e58cc97%26id%3D428de42560%26e%3Dfc0735be13&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1692988718745000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3MEXQWUW71X2ZMvnSWT1za\">kills<\/a>, even young, healthy people. And death isn\u2019t even the only severe outcome of COVID.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart.org\/en\/news\/2023\/04\/25\/long-covid-in-children-still-poses-plenty-of-questions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/voicesforvaccines.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3De17a65409cd8f13ba7e58cc97%26id%3Da3403d0783%26e%3Dfc0735be13&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1692988718745000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0aIlwDy3xmyiTCWYlsH0Nw\">Long COVID<\/a>, can impact between 4-25% of children and young adults as well. No vaccine completely prevents\u00a0every case of COVID, but real\u2011world studies show the COVID shots cut the chance of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC9933576\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hospitalization<\/a>\u00a0and death, so they still save lives and slow outbreaks.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors do bill a small fee or sometimes earn a modest quality bonus from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vaxopedia.org\/2024\/07\/06\/about-the-blue-cross-blue-shield-vaccine-bonus-for-pediatricians\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">insurance<\/a>\u00a0companies for vaccinations, but those payments mainly cover supplies and staff time and are nowhere near the big profits anti\u2011vaccine activists claim.<\/p>\n<p>The Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrsa.gov\/cicp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CICP<\/a>) was developed as a supplementary program based on the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, specifically for public health emergencies, like pandemics.\u00a0It is a no-fault system\u00a0for people who believe they were seriously hurt by a vaccine to file for compensation. Manufacturers are shielded from design\u2011defect lawsuits only if the vaccine is made and labeled correctly, so injured individuals are not left without help.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsmax misleads on COVID vaccines. Learn the facts about natural immunity, myocarditis, long COVID, vaccine safety, and how injury compensation works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","jtf_topic_subjects":[189,188,218],"class_list":["post-12299","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\/12299","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\/12299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12302,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/12299\/revisions\/12302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jtf_topic_subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topic_subjects?post=12299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}