you know that right now ahead of the winter season the government is pushing
for everyone across the whole country
to take the latest iterations of both the flu vaccine as well as the COVID vaccine
in fact there's a campaign happening across America right now called two vaccines one visit
urging people to get the COVID booster and the Fluke shot at
the very same time however
as convenient as that is well there is a growing body of research
which shows that people develop a high risk of stroke if they
take the COVID and influenza vaccines
together for instance there was a preprint paper that was published just
last month by FDA researcher
you can see it up on screen for yourself and these FDA researchers they
were analyzing Medicare data in order to estimate the risk of stroke following vaccination
and hero is part of what they found for people who received a Pfizer
jab with an influenza shot
an elevator risk of non hemorrhagic stroke was detected
for people who received a moderna jab with an influenza shot
an elevator risk of transient ischemic attack was detected with a transient ischemic attack
being a type of stroke
these findings they led these b da researchers to write the following as a
part of their conclusion quote
our study did identify an elevate or risk of stroke when the COVID 19
bivailand vaccines were administered with a condiment high dose a Juventud influence vaccine
however the observed effects were not consistent then within about a week and a
half of this FDA analysis coming out
researchers with Kaiser Permanente published a separate report where in they found this
an increased risk of stroke for people under 65 was found
for people who received the Pfizer biotech COVID 19 vaccine and a
flew shot on the same day
and in fact what was relatively interesting about this Kaiser Permanente study of
was that generally they saw no increased risk of stroke until
they looked at it through the lens of someone getting both shots on the same day
here's specifically what they wrote in their study as a part of the results section in
the paper with 4000 and 933 cases
we found no increased risk within a 21 day risk interval across vaccines and by subgroups
however an elevator risk emerged within a 42 day risk interval among individuals under
the age of 65 years old
who received co administration of the Pfizer biotech bivail and vaccine and the influenza
vaccine on the same day
then in another study that was published by Australian researchers back in
September they found that quote
more adults reported averse events after receiving fishers vaccine and a seasonal inactivated influenza
together than after receiving either vaccine alone and it is worth mentioning
that this potential association between stroke and vaccination is not a new discovery
for instance back in January in January of this year the CDC and the
FDA released a joined statement
announcing the detection of a vaccine safety signal regarding ischemic strokes
and in that statement which for your reference for some reason has
now been scrubbed from the internet
well here's what the CDC and the FDA wrote quote following the availability and use of
the updated bivailand COVID 19 vaccines
the CDC's vaccine safety datalink a near real time surveillance system
met the statistical criteria to prompt additional investigation into whether there was
safety concern for ischemic stroke
in people Asia 65 and older who received the of is or bivalent vaccine
a rapid response investigation of the signal in the vaccine safety battling system
raised a question of whether people aged 65 and older who have received the
Pfizer biotech bivail and vaccine
were more likely to have an ischemic stroke in the 21 days following vaccination
compared with days 22 through 44 following vaccination
now just for your general reference safety signals like these are triggered
when an adverse event such as
strokes happens at a certain rate following vaccination
however a safety signal just means that there is enough data to investigate further
it does not necessarily mean that there is a true clinical brisk
safety signals mean that a condition may be linked to a vaccine but that
link requires further analysis to confirm whether it's real or just a coincidence
which is something that of course the CDC made sure to mention in that January announcement
where they laid it all out quote
although the totality of the data currently suggests that it is very unlikely that
the signal in the vaccine safety handling system represents a true clinical risk
we believe it is important to share this information with the public
as we have in the past
when one of our safety monitoring systems detects a signal the CDC and the
FDA will continue to evaluate additional data from these and other vaccine safety systems
no change is recommended in COVID 19 vaccination practice at this time
and then just as a bit about fun aside it's worth mentioning
that this whole statement it begins with this sentence right here quote transparency and vaccine safety
are the top priorities for the CDC and the FDA which is funny when you look
at it through the context of this statement seemingly having been completely scrubbed from the website
in fact if you go to this URL today it just takes you to
a generic vaccine page over on the CDC website you have to go back
and dig through the internet archives
in order to find this so called transparent statement regardless though setting that aside this is
all to say that the possible link between the COVID vaccines and stroke
or more relevant to our discussion the connection between the COVID and
flu vaccine combo and strokes
while the evidence for that has been mounting for a while now and even though the
link between these two vaccines and stroke has not yet been definitively proven
well the evidence that does exist has already led some vaccine public experts
to come out and say that these studies they boost the idea of at the very
least spacing out the shots in order to reduce the risk of side effect
for instance doctor William Schaffner who is the current medical director over at the
National Foundation for infectious diseases
and he also advises the CDC on vaccine related matters here's what he told
c and in a recent interview
people who are worried could consider getting each shot at different times rather than
together that's a reasonable thing to do
likewise you had doctor Peter Marks who is a top official within the FDA
here's what he said at a recent FDA conference
quote if you want to minimize the chance of interactions and minimize confusing the
side effects from one with another you wait about two weeks
between the two vaccines likewise besides the potential risk of side effects
well this is Raleigh's study right here it found another possible issue with administering
both the flu vaccine and the cove vaccine at the same time
the possibility that when they're taken together they actually induce lower levels of antibody
although it is worth mentioning that they claimed that this finding was
statistically insignificant quote lower but
statistically insignificant antibody markers were found in the group which was co
administered both vaccines at once regardless
what all this seems to be adding up to is essentially counterweight
to the current government program to get two shots into every arm
because while they might be pushing this two vaccines one visit campaign
in order to increase compliance and to get more people vaccinated
well the reality is that there is a growing body of research
which calls into question well
there are many studies which call into question the COVID shot in general but
in regard to today's episode
there is a growing body of research questioning whether getting these two shots at
once is a good idea
and I will mention again that while there are many papers that allude to potential problems
none of them are as of yet definitive
and in fact almost all these research papers they end with the
researchers saying something like this
quote the potential association between bivailand COVID 19 vaccination and a ischemic
stroke warrants further investigation among individuals
further investigations that I'm sure we all hope take place sooner rather than later
if you like to go through any of the studies that we discussed in today's episode
I'll throw all my research notes they'll be down in the description box below this video
for you to peruse at your own Leisure if you're the type of person
that likes to dig into the details
and then until next time I'm your host Roman from the Epoch
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