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

People still have a lot of questions about the COVID-19 vaccines. Dr. Frank McGeorge of the local 4 is working to provide as many answers as possible.

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Unfortunately, the answer is no. We are not quite sure what factors play a role in some people with long-term symptoms of a coronavirus infection.

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

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published data collected in the V-safe monitoring system and the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

From December 14 to Jan. 13, more than 13 million vaccine doses were administered. At the time, there were 518 serious events who received the vaccine and were not residents of a long-term care facility. Of those 518 people, 35 were dead – 16 after the Pfizer vaccine and 19 after the Moderna vaccine.

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

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

Double masking reduces the amount of droplets for breath both inhaled and exhaled. If a person is fully vaccinated, the chances of becoming infected or spreading the virus asymptomatically are drastically reduced.

At that point it becomes a matter of personal values.

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