Did people die after being vaccinated? Can the vaccine help with persistent side effects?

People still have a lot of questions about COVID-19 vaccines. Dr. Frank McGeorge, local 4, works to respond as much as possible.

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Unfortunately, the answer is no. We are not entirely sure what factors are involved in some people who have prolonged symptoms of a coronavirus infection.

Now that more than 50 million people have received at least one dose of vaccine in the United States,

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published data that has been collected in the V-safe monitoring system and in the vaccine adverse event reporting system (VAERS).

From December 14th to January. 13, more than 13 million doses of vaccine were given. During that period, there were 518 serious events that received the vaccine, who were not residents of long-term care units. Of the 518 people, there were 35 deaths – 16 after the Pfizer vaccine and 19 after the Moderna vaccine.

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A review of 16 of the reported deaths indicated underlying heart disease, cancer, stroke, probably pulmonary embolism, and otherwise fragile health as the cause of death. The remaining 19 are still under investigation.

However, monitoring systems cannot identify a cause and effect relationship without investigation, but there is still a very small number of deaths among the millions of doses of vaccine administered, about 0.00003%.

The double mask reduces the amount of respiratory drops that are both inhaled and exhaled. If someone is completely vaccinated, the chances of being infected or spreading the virus asymptomatically are dramatically reduced.

At that point, it becomes a matter of personal values.

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