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CDC: COVID Shot Cause Thousands To Have ‘Health Impact Events’

By Stefan J. Bos, Special Correspondent Worthy News

(Worthy News) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says thousands of people have suffered ‘health impact events’ as a result of coronavirus vaccinations.

A CDC report, obtained by Worthy News, showed problems started almost immediately after the roll-out began of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 jab. Out of 112,807 registered receivers of the vaccine, at least 3,150 people complained of “health impacts events” after the shot was administered, the report showed.

They were “unable to perform normal daily activities, unable to work,” and “required care from [a] doctor or health care professional,” the CDC said. The report cited figures over the December 14-18 period when the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine distribution started in the United States.

The CDC did not provide more details, but it came amid confirmed reports of people facing health issues such as allergic reactions and feeling dizzy in Britain and the United States. Pharmaceutical giant Moderna, which rolled out its COVID-19 a week later and was apparently not included in the report, also faced controversy.

On Thursday, a Boston doctor reportedly suffered a serious allergic reaction to Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine. Dr. Hossein Sadrzadeh, a geriatric oncologist at Boston Medical Center, said he became dizzy and felt his heart racing minutes after receiving the vaccine on Thursday.

“It was the same anaphylactic reaction that I experience with shellfish,” Dr. Sadrzadeh told The New York Times newspaper. He said he noted that his tongue became numb, his blood pressure plummeted, and he broke into a cold sweat. “I don’t want anybody to go through that.”

EMERGENCY ROOM

Sadrzadeh self-administered an EpiPen he brought in the event of such a reaction and was discharged following a brief emergency room examination, the report said.

So far, several recipients of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine tracked by the press reported allergic reactions to that inoculation — including a New York City health care worker. However, Sadrzadeh’s symptoms mark the first known reaction of its severity to the Moderna shot.

The vaccines, which have similar ingredients, both require two shots administered a few weeks apart. Neither Moderna nor the federal Food and Drug Administration, which approved the vaccines, commented on the Times’ report.

The controversies were expected to fuel skepticism towards the jabs. Pollsters noted that over 50 percent of Americans are hesitant to receive the COVID-19 vaccination. Only less than a third, just 31 percent of those polled, wanted to be “vaccinated as soon as possible,” according to a poll by Just the News Daily with the Scott Rasmussen institute

Roughly one in five Americans (17 percent) “will never take the Covid Vaccine,” days the poll conducted over the December 17-19 period.

Skepticism is also reported in Europe, where a vast OVID-19 vaccination drive began Saturday and Sunday, mainly in the 27-nations comprising the European Union.

MASSIVE CONTRACTS

The EU secured contracts with a range of drugmakers, including Pfizer and BioNTech, Moderna, and AstraZeneca, for a total of more than two billion doses. It wants all adults to be inoculated next year, and several EU nations consider to make the jab virtually obligatory for residents seeking to return to normal life.

But surveys and informal research point to high levels of hesitancy towards inoculation in countries ranging from Hungary to Poland. Several younger and elderly Hungarians told Worthy News in recent days that they would not take the COVID-19 vaccine. They cited concerns over ingredients and the short time it took for authorities to develop the jab.

That view wasn’t shared by Hungarian head physician Adrienne Kertész who was among the first to receive the vaccine. “I waited long to receive this vaccine. Now I can work in the hospital without being afraid to be infected with COVID-19.”

But her colleagues in heavily Catholic Poland weren’t in a hurry to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. On Sunday, only half the medical staff in a Warsaw hospital where the country’s first shot was administered had reportedly signed up.

Surveys in Poland have shown fewer than 40 percent of people planned to get vaccinated. “I don’t think there’s a vaccine in history that has been tested so quickly,” said Ireneusz Sikorski, 41, as he left a church in central Warsaw with his two children. “I am not saying vaccination shouldn’t be taking place. But I am not going to test an unverified vaccine on my children, or on myself.”

The traditional method of creating vaccines – introducing a weakened or dead virus, or a piece of one, to stimulate the body’s immune system – takes over a decade on average, according to a 2013 study cited by Reuters news agency. One pandemic flu vaccine took over eight years to develop, while a hepatitis B vaccine was nearly 18 years in the making.