This was after about 10 days of trying to save her after a sudden cardiac arrest 3 hours after her second vaccine dose.
The team ran numerous tests. Early 60s, healthy, no heart problems. Eventually, they decided that absent any other explanation, they think the vaccine had something to do with it. It's been submitted to VAERS.
The legitimate fear of creating vaccine hesitancy in the population is suppressing reporting on these events. I'm sure they are rare, but I suspect not as rare as we think.
I hope that front-line medical professionals are not reluctant to report potential vaccine injuries. I would be surprised if they are; there are decades of training and experience around such reporting.
Unfortunately it is impossible to completely rule out the potential for injury or death even for routine vaccines, which is why (in the U.S. at least) there is a federally administered vaccine compensation program. In case you’re not aware, CDC-approved COVID vaccines are covered under a “countermeasures” program administered by HHS. Of course that is no comfort; it can’t bring back a loved one.
I hope this post does not come across as callous. I have some idea of what you are going through; I recently lost a parent too, although it was to cancer.
I've had a few days to process, because her last few days on life support..... well, when I saw her, I could just sense that "she" was no longer present.... and the EEGs showed the decline in brain activity. Point is I was mourning her days ago, when her body was still alive. Anyways, a doctor pulled me aside and broke it down for me this way:
The vaccine is our weapon in a war against the virus, and my mother-in-law is a "friendly fire" casualty. They are inevitable, but the war must be fought.
While this kind of helps me feel a bit better, it's been disturbing to my wife and her family...... there has certainly been a rather strong tendency amongst the medical staff to try to attribute the causality to a multitude of other factors. They did this almost immediately. The tests, after days, showed an unusually healthy heart, and left them stumped. Only then did they even begin to discuss the vaccine. I understand why, it's just that the initial 4 days or so of behavior, and refusal to engage in any convo on the vaccine, made them suspicious.
They are Filipino-Americans, and have about as much trust in authority as my West Virginian relatives do, which is basically zero. This made things 20x worse. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to convince my wife to get vaccinated now. She had COVID in February when I did (both of us extremely mild symptoms) and she is currently saying she won't get the vaccine, even if that means cancelling our planned overseas trip.
Anyway, I just got an impression that there is some hesitancy, likely institutional, to not talk about it..... Which makes sense, seeing as how this manifests with famous friendly fire incidents in the military.
Edit:
I forgot to thank you for pointing out the HHS program, but I've been told that the program is extremely high burden of proof (my MIL was on machines for over a week, so any autopsy is garbage at this point). I've heard that in 10 years, they've handed out benefits to approximately 30 people. I hope I'm misinformed on this.
I would not be surprised if what Israel sees as a Pfizer issue and the US thinks of as a Moderna issue, an interesting contradiction, that this is what is actually happening. Especially since it seems to be over-represented in young active males.
One in 3000
Thoughts?
> The COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech appears to put young men at elevated risk of developing a heart muscle inflammation called myocarditis, researchers in Israel say. In a report submitted today to the Israeli Ministry of Health, they conclude that between one in 3000 and one in 6000 men ages 16 to 24 who received the vaccine developed the rare condition. But most cases were mild and resolved within a few weeks, which is typical for myocarditis.
1 in 3000 might not seem that bad, but what is the fatality rate for Covid for males aged 16 to 24? Wouldn't surprise me if it is even lower...
