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In very rare cases, some people have experienced more intense side effects including:
Severe allergic reactions including anaphylaxis. This has been observed in approximately two to five patients per million people vaccinated. This reaction also almost always occurred within 30 minutes after vaccination, which is why recipients are instructed to wait 15 to 30 minutes after each shot for observation.
Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome. Also called TTS, this condition involves blood clots with low platelets. This very rare syndrome has occurred almost exclusively in adult women younger than age 50 who received the J&J/Janssen vaccine. According to the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, as of May 11, 2021, more than 9 million doses of the J&J/Janssen vaccine had been given and 28 reports of TTS had been confirmed.
It’s important to underscore that these effects have been observed in a very small proportion of patients.
In addition, the CDC reports that there’s currently no evidence that there’s a causal link between the vaccine and any deaths apart from a “plausible causal relationship between the J&J/Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine and a rare and serious event – blood clots with low platelets – which has caused deaths.” The CDC and the FDA are continuing to monitor all adverse events and deaths and are reporting such to the VAERS.
There are common side effects. We know this. This group has discussed this before. They are minor. They include nausea, fever, fatigue, headaches. I mentioned my wife had pretty heavy common side effects. They are not medically concerning.
There are much more serious effects, but they are rare. Among them are extreme allergic reactions and blood clotting. We even have numbers on this demonstrating HOW rare they are.
When I said that serious medical conditions from the vaccine are rare, that's just simply true.
Confusing that with the more common side effects (that can happen btw with many vaccines) causes problems.
Don't confuse those things--it does nothing to help the conversation. The conversation, remember, is about people who have doubts about the vaccine and therefore resist getting it. That's a huge problem because for the vaccine to work, a large percentage of the population has to get vaccinated.
If you confuse common, ordinary, statistically fairly common AND not at all medically dangerous side effects (the kind people generally get with the 2nd vaccination) with the actual, real, but very very rare serious medical complications, then we end up potentially fueling the resistance of people who should get vaccinated but are having doubts. They get the wrong impression.Reserve terms like normal, fairly common side effects for one thing, and don't confuse THAT with the genuinely dangerous but very rare conditions.
I think all of that stands to reason.
You confused this issue because
in response to me talking about the very rare serious conditions, you put up stats that refer instead
to the common, and far from dangerous, ordinary side effects.
They are completely different things.
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