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Is the media finally getting wise to COVID vaccines?

The Claim:

A Newsmax report claims 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’t, paid doctors extra to give them, and blocked injured people from suing.

The Facts:

Natural immunity only appears after you catch the disease, and that means risking a serious infection or even death. Getting a vaccine teaches your body to fight the virus without making you dangerously sick.

The mRNA COVID shots can rarely cause mild, short‑lived heart swelling, yet heart problems happen more often after a COVID infection itself. Almost everyone who gets vaccine‑related myocarditis recovers quickly. One study did 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 higher risk of heart failure or death than vaccine-induced myocarditis did. And many studies often explain that the risks of myocarditis from COVID far outweigh the risks of myocarditis from the vaccines.

COVID kills, even young, healthy people. And death isn’t even the only severe outcome of COVID. Long COVID, can impact between 4-25% of children and young adults as well. No vaccine completely prevents every case of COVID, but real‑world studies show the COVID shots cut the chance of hospitalization and death, so they still save lives and slow outbreaks.

Doctors do bill a small fee or sometimes earn a modest quality bonus from insurance companies for vaccinations, but those payments mainly cover supplies and staff time and are nowhere near the big profits anti‑vaccine activists claim.

The Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) was developed as a supplementary program based on the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, specifically for public health emergencies, like pandemics. It is a no-fault system for people who believe they were seriously hurt by a vaccine to file for compensation. Manufacturers are shielded from design‑defect lawsuits only if the vaccine is made and labeled correctly, so injured individuals are not left without help.

Disclaimer: Science is always evolving and our understanding of these topics may have evolved too since this was originally posted. Be sure to check out our most recent posts and browse the latest Just the Facts Topics for the latest.

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