What Is ‘Long Vax’? Symptoms Linked to COVID-19 Shot Baffle Docs
July 7th, 2023You’ll love this part:
Many doctors are hesitant to openly discuss the possibility of a long vax syndrome, fearing it will be seized upon by anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists who’ll try to discredit a vaccine that has saved countless millions of lives.
Mmm hmm.
Via: New York Post:
You’ve heard of “long COVID,” the cases of people who can’t shake the lingering symptoms of COVID-19.
Now comes “long vax” — a rare, but baffling set of symptoms that follow a small number of people for months after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
“You see one or two patients and you wonder if it’s a coincidence,” Dr. Anne Louise Oaklander, a neurologist and researcher at Harvard Medical School, told Science.
“But by the time you’ve seen 10, 20 [patients],” she said, “where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”
Cases are very rare — even less common than the few reported cases of long COVID — and medical experts are still analyzing data to determine what might be behind them.
Symptoms of long vax can mimic those of long COVID: headaches, intense fatigue and abnormal heart rate and blood pressure.
Patients are also telling their doctors about tingling, electric shock–like sensations, burning pain and blood circulation issues that appear weeks, days or even hours after receiving the COVID-19 shot.
Other patients have symptoms resembling those of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, or POTS, including weakness, swings in heart rate and blood pressure, fatigue and brain fog.
So, doctors admit that the vax is causing these problems but don’t want to tell the public because the facts might further turn us against the vax? OK, I get it, Dr Death. It’s black humor. (For the young folks: that’s a kind of humor from before the PC era. It has nothing to do with human skin color.)