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Small Study Sparks Fear About COVID Vaccine Safety as Some Call to Ban mRNA Vaccines

Concerns over COVID vaccine injury are growing as some call for the banning of mRNA vaccines in their state. Claims that long COVID is a vaccine-related injury have begun spreading online after Yale researchers shared preliminary findings from their study of a rare set of symptoms following COVID-19 vaccination that the authors call “post-vaccination syndrome” (PVS). The study, posted online on February 18 but not yet published in a scientific journal, describes the group of symptoms as fatigue, exercise intolerance, brain fog, tinnitus, and dizziness. PVS is not a disease recognized by the medical community, but a term created by the researchers to describe these reported symptoms. The study does not establish how common PVS symptoms are or whether vaccination causes them. Researchers compared blood samples from 42 vaccinated individuals reporting PVS with 22 vaccinated individuals who did not report adverse effects and found differences in immune profiles between the two groups. The study notes that they found similarities between PVS and long COVID, but the study’s senior authors explain that the findings are preliminary and require further research to determine the cause of PVS. The study gained attention online, with vaccine opponents misrepresenting the findings around long COVID. One popular post on X, published on February 19, featuring a screenshot of an...

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