Pfizer and Moderna now decide to test COVID-19 vaccine safety

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Mainstream news outlets like NBC News have long down-played the risk of cardiovascular issues caused by COVID-19 vaccines, reporting that “Covid-19 itself is far more likely to lead to heart problems in teenage boys and young men”, and “Most cases of vaccine-related myocarditis got better without any lasting issues”. Source.

Now, echoing the efforts of Israeli researchers trying to learn if “mRNA vaccines are dangerous long term” after billions of jabs have already been given out, NBC News reports: “Most of those who developed the condition [vaccine-related myocarditis or pericarditis] have fully recovered, although research so far has only looked at how well they’re doing after several months. Some doctors wonder if it can cause permanent damage to the heart.” They add: “Now, the first research in the U.S. is underway, tracking adverse health effects — if any — that may appear in the years following a diagnosis of vaccine-associated heart problems. Moderna has already launched two trials, the most recent in September. Pfizer confirmed that at least one of its trials, which will include up to 500 teens and young adults under age 21, is slated to begin in the next couple of months.” Additionally, “The trials will be monitoring for myocarditis and subclinical myocarditis, which doesn’t cause symptoms.” Source.

Okay then.

Note: Some questions you may wish to ask. We have long been told that the vaccines are #SafeAndEffective, so why should such trials be necessary? Shouldn’t such trials have been done before the vaccines were released and even forced on to billions of people? Isn’t it a bit late for doctors, previously beholden to the oath “primum non nocere” (“first, do no harm”), to now wonder if the vaccines “cause permanent damage to the heart”? Are the ‘conspiracy theorists’, who simply were not convinced that we can be sure that the vaccines are safe, now vindicated? Why are these trials being done by the jab manufacturers, shouldn’t governments and independent scientists and doctors, if any still exist, be interested and encouraged to do so? Isn’t there a conflict of interest involved in relying on the jab manufacturers to tell us if their products are #SafeAndEffective, especially when they have histories of fraud and other unethical behaviours? How can such trials be run, and will the results be reliable, given not only the potential conflict of interest, but also that every effort has been made to minimise the number of unvaccinated? How can we say that the benefits outweigh the risks when we don’t really know what the risks are yet (and the evidence increasingly suggests there are no benefits, even ‘negative benefits’)? With myocarditis being a very serious condition in the pre-COVID era, is sub-clinical myocarditis also very serious? While vaccine-caused myocarditis is apparently not very common, how common is vaccine-caused sub-clinical myocarditis?