Have people died after being vaccinated? Can the vaccine help with persistent side effects?

People still have a lot of questions about COVID-19 vaccines. Dr. Frank McGeorge, of Local 4, works to respond as much as possible.

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Unfortunately, the answer is no. We are not entirely sure what factors are involved in some people who have prolonged symptoms of a coronavirus infection.

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

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

From December 14 to January. 13, more than 13 million vaccine doses were administered. During this time, there were 518 serious events that received the vaccine and were not residents of long-term care centers. Of these 518 people, there were 35 deaths, 16 after the Pfizer vaccine and 19 after the Modern vaccine.

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A review of 16 of the reported deaths indicated underlying heart disease, cancer, stroke, probably pulmonary embolism, and frail health as the cause of death. The remaining 19 are still being investigated.

However, control systems cannot identify a cause-and-effect relationship without research, but there is still a very small number of deaths among the millions of vaccine doses administered, approximately 0.00003%.

Double masking reduces the amount of respiratory drops that are inhaled and exhaled. If someone is completely vaccinated, the chances of infection or asymptomatic spread of the virus are drastically reduced.

At this point, it becomes a matter of personal values.

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