Michael Whitworth experienced mild symptoms after his first dose of the Modern COVID-19 vaccine.
“Just arm pain,” he said.
So when it came time for her second dose recently, she wasn’t expecting to feel much.
“The second dose was a completely different story,” he explained.
Two hours after the shooting, Whitworth said the pain and pain in his arm became so intense, “I couldn’t really move.”
At 10 a.m., Whitworth said he had low-grade fever, tremors, chills, his lips turned pale, and he began to hallucinate.
“It was very, very desperate because I never hallucinated in my life, so I felt like I had been given a mushroom injection or something,” he said.
What Whitworth describes is extremely rare according to the VAERS adverse report database. Co-managed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the database tracks adverse reactions after any type of vaccination.
We downloaded the data and analyzed the reports recorded during the first four weeks of the launch of COVID-19 in Florida. The COVID vaccine accounted for more than 90% of all adverse reports submitted from Sunshine State.
As of Wednesday, reports had been filed by or on behalf of more than 330 people. Of the 850,000 doses administered in mid-January, the number of adverse events presented accounted for less than 0.04% of people who received at least one dose of the vaccine in Florida.
“It’s an early warning system,” explained the associate professor at the University of South Florida, Dr. Jason Salemi. “You shouldn’t look at this database, and if you see 300 cases of adverse incidents, I wouldn’t worry. The idea is that, at the population level, we continue to see the same adverse event that we wouldn’t expect over and over again. to invite scientists to delve deeper into it. “
Salemi added that the reports registered in the database are not verified, voluntary and sent by anyone.
In the four weeks analyzed, the most common side effects included chills, fatigue, and dizziness. Reports of women receiving the vaccine were more than triple that of men.
Six deaths in Florida were also reported in the database. The youngest 56-year-old doctor in South Florida, Dr. Michael Gregory. Gregory was described as healthy before he died a few weeks after receiving the first dose of the Phiizer vaccine. His death is still being investigated.
“We are not saying that these adverse events are specifically linked to this vaccine. We just know that they happen after a person gets vaccinated, “Salemi explained when we asked what the public should get from the reports in the government database.” You should take them not with a grain of salt, but in many aspects, require much more research to verify the information and make sure it is really linked to the vaccine. “
Michael Whitworth plans to report its side effects to the VAERS database.
“I think hallucinations are important. I think people will be a little less uncomfortable knowing that these things can happen. “
For Whitworth, it’s more than personal. He is a Tampa Bay doctor who is now experiencing the side effects of the vaccine, but remains a witness to the reality of the virus.
“I take care of COVID patients, many of them intubating them, and I take care of them in the operating room. They are in a horrible situation, so much so that I would not wish I could have any of them and the side effects; Yes, you have them, but compared to the real COVID, it’s nothing, ”he said.
Dr. Michael Whitworth also hosts a Facebook page in the Tampa Bay region focused on information based on COVID-19 evidence. Click here for more information.
To report side effects to the VAERS reporting system, click here.
You can also report side effects on your phone by clicking here.