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US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine

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Re: US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine

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If there is solid evidence that a vaccine will kill people, it should not be used. It's intolerable that people die taking a prophylactic. It's much, much worse to kill someone with a vaccine than to allow that person to perhaps die of a virus. Thankfully, in this case, sanity prevailed.

There's solid evidence that foods kill people.

100% of people who eat food eventually die.

Re: US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine

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So I created a new account for this to avoid linking personal information... I had blood clots in my lungs last week a few days after getting the J&J vaccine. I'm an otherwise totally healthy man in my 30s, no preconditions. The hospital reported it to the vaccine reporting agency, which I assume is reviewing all this information. I'm not sure if they considered my case when making this decision. My clots were differ…

These are not vaccines. They are gene therapy marketed as vaccines. No one has any clue as to their long term side effects. The under 30 odds of death for Covid-19 are statistically zero percent. The rush to inject a brand new medication into the entire world pop without regards for individual risk profile is ridiculous, reckless, madness.

This is false. MRNA vaccines have no relation to gene therapy. MRNA is not turned into DNA by the body, and is fully gone from the body within a couple days. As such, there are no possible long term effects related to the vaccine being MRNA vs traditional protein based vaccines.

Re: US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine

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The risk of dying from a blood clot after receiving the J&J vaccine is six in 6,800,000 (6.8M). The world population is 7,900,000,000 (7.9B). If everyone on the planet got the J&J vaccine tomorrow, and if it is the cause of the clots, then 6,971 people would die from the vaccine. Yesterday, Covid19 killed 8,803 people (according to worldometers). We don't want anyone to die from vaccination, and we don't fully unders…

6 obvious deaths that we're aware of. The risk of the vaccines is in their novelty and morbidity. An abundance of caution is required in this instance. It would be very bad to discover that there's a vanishingly small chance of blood clots within the first 3 months but a significant chance when paired with other events over the following decade.

> 6 obvious deaths that we're aware of.

1 death. The other cases are severe blood clotting but still alive by my understanding.

That's literally one-in-6-million chance of death with regards to this blood-clotting issue. A vanishingly smaller chance than the 1-in-40,000 (or 150-in-6-million) a healthy young person has of dying of COVID19.

So 1 death, 5 severe reactions related to blood clotting. Definitely a cause of concern, but lets not overplay the stats here.

This just another "Trolley problem": 150-people (even youngsters) would die from COVID19 vs the 1-person who died from the J&J vaccine.

If we include the general population (instead of focusing on the youngest and healthiest of us): COVID19 mortality rate is 1%ish, or 60,000-people-per-6-million.

Re: US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine

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There's already been large scale phase 3 trials, and we've deal with vaccines for decades, they're not entirely novel and unknown each time.

> we've deal with vaccines for decades I don’t think that’s accurate in this case. The type of vaccine that J&J released had up until months ago only ever been deployed in animals. IIRC pigs had a problem with corona viruses that we solved” The J&J is not a heap of dead virus like the common ones we have had forever. But a live harmless (we think) virus dolled up to look like Rona Corona.

Live harmless vaccines aren't anything new. Some of the TB vaccines from the 60s are of that variety. Live virus vaccines have safely been used for at least the past 5 decades. Stop spreading bullshit.

Re: US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine

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This is a leaky vaccine, which is actually a big health risk. You remove selection pressure for lack of virulence, so more fatal strains can spread more easily. Definitely not a good thing.

I know about Marek's disease in chickens, but has a leaky vaccine ever caused a virus to evolve like that in humans?

Would there be anything in particular about the study of that case which would not be valid in humans? I've seen articles/studies from before Covid that suggest this sort of thing could be a concern in humans, but no reported cases of it happening. On the other hand, we don't exactly have a control group, so there's not a good way to tell.

Re: US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine

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post #702

The risk of dying from a blood clot after receiving the J&J vaccine is six in 6,800,000 (6.8M). The world population is 7,900,000,000 (7.9B). If everyone on the planet got the J&J vaccine tomorrow, and if it is the cause of the clots, then 6,971 people would die from the vaccine. Yesterday, Covid19 killed 8,803 people (according to worldometers). We don't want anyone to die from vaccination, and we don't fully unders…

I read one of the six died. Has there been a news update that all six have died?

Re: US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine

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post #814

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what were your symptoms that led you to go to the hospital to get checked for clots? What is someone getting a vaccine as such is supposed to look for?

I got a little out of breath doing simple tasks like walking briskly or picking up my kids, and I had a pain in my back (actually lung) that gradually got worse over a few days. Eventually the pain was severe enough that I went to the ER. Looking back, the shortness of breath was a key indicator. It wasn't that I was struggling to breathe or anything, but I felt like I couldn't take a big deep breath easily and that'…

Thanks. I’m hoping you’re well now and the clot was treated.

Re: US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine

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6 obvious deaths that we're aware of. The risk of the vaccines is in their novelty and morbidity. An abundance of caution is required in this instance. It would be very bad to discover that there's a vanishingly small chance of blood clots within the first 3 months but a significant chance when paired with other events over the following decade.

So I created a new account for this to avoid linking personal information... I had blood clots in my lungs last week a few days after getting the J&J vaccine. I'm an otherwise totally healthy man in my 30s, no preconditions. The hospital reported it to the vaccine reporting agency, which I assume is reviewing all this information. I'm not sure if they considered my case when making this decision. My clots were differ…

Clotting happens much more frequently with or without vaccination. The reported cases are a kind of very rare type of clotting. It's easier to spot something unusual going on when mutiple rare events are observed.

In comparison there have been over 2000 deaths reported (US, all vaccines). But death is not unusual and unless one can find a specific link to vaccination that number alone is not alarming. Sometimes we live with known risk, anaphylactic shocks e.g., because they are unavoidable and benefits outweigh risk. But we do what we can to mitigate such risk.

In summary the current pause is triggered by the particular type of clotting, not just any clotting. But your case should contribute to the overall evaluation of the likely cause and risk.

Re: US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine

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There's solid evidence that foods kill people.

100% of people who eat food eventually die.

For certain foods, some people die very quickly from immune reactions.

My comment is more or less ridiculous, but I'd like to understand why an effective vaccine that is dangerous to a few people is different than peanuts, which are dangerous to a few people (many of whom discover this by consuming peanuts).

Re: US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine

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Do any corona-family viruses cause cancers that we know of?

I don't know. But HPV and Herpes definitely can. Here's some more: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/infectious-agent... It takes quite a long time to prove the link between a viral infection and a cancer that develops decades later, so it'll be a while before we know for sure.

I think that given the fact that we've been getting sick from corona-family viruses for years with no suspected link to cancers, this should be of relatively low concern, barring any specific information.

There are other potential longer term side effects that at least seem to have some emerging data to back them up, which seem more concerning to me.

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