Dr. Robin Rose, Chris Cuomo's personal physician and dual board-certified physician with expertise in treating long COVID at Terrain Health, destroys the prevailing narrative about COVID-19 vaccine safety on live television.
During the segment, Cuomo introduced the topic by highlighting a groundbreaking study conducted by the Global Vaccine Data Network (GVDN), which analyzed the safety of COVID-19 vaccines in a group of 99 million individuals vaccinated in several countries, including Denmark, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. United. Argentina, Canada, Finland, Australia, and Scotland.
Here's what the study found about how some health problems develop after people get COVID-19 vaccines:
Neurological conditions:
- After receiving the first dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, there was a significant increase in the incidence of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), where the body's immune system attacks its nerves.
- Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), a rare inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, also appeared more frequently than expected after the first dose of the Moderna vaccine.
- Other neurological problems such as transverse myelitis (inflammation of the spinal cord), Bell's palsy (facial paralysis), and seizures have occurred more often than usual after taking some doses of these vaccines.
Conditions of blood clotting and platelets:
- The first dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine was associated with more cases than expected of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), a type of blood clot in the brain.
- There have also been more cases of low platelet counts and pulmonary embolisms (blood clots in the lungs) after some doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
- Some vaccines also led to an increase in splanchnic vein thrombosis (SVT), another type of blood clot, after certain doses, but these results did not indicate a major safety concern by study standards.
Heart disease:
- Cases of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) were much higher than expected after the first, second, and third doses of mRNA vaccines (such as Pfizer and Moderna).
- Cases of pericarditis (inflammation of the outer layer of the heart) also exceeded expectations after some doses of the Moderna vaccine and after the third dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.
- These heart-related findings were considered important safety signals that need attention.
What does this mean: The study noted that after receiving certain doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, some people faced health problems such as nerve and heart problems, or blood clots, more than experts expected.
During the live broadcast, Cuomo introduced the topic with cautious optimism, highlighting the rarity and increased risks of some of the disorders identified in the study. However, Dr. Rose was quick to point out the seriousness of the findings.
“The study identified important problems related to the nervous system, heart or blood. What we saw was that some of the safety signals were two to three times higher than expected,” Dr. Rose said.
Cuomo asked for clarification on what Rose meant by “expected versus observed,” and Rose explained that the observed serious side effects were higher than what researchers expected when rolling out a vaccine or treatment.
Dr. Rose highlighted the inconsistency in how healthcare and society respond to rare events, and compared cancer screening to monitoring side effects of vaccines.
She pointed out that millions of cancers are being screened with infection rates much lower than some of the adverse events observed after vaccination, wondering why similar caution is not applied to monitoring the safety of vaccines.
“When headlines appear about coronavirus vaccines, they are often downplayed in various ways, or the headlines themselves downplay what's going on. Okay. The problem is that, in our society and in health care in general, we care about the few or rare cases, right? ?So we're screening everyone 45 and over, and we're including hundreds of thousands or millions of people who need screening because we're concerned about 32 out of every 100,000 people who get it every year.
“The same applies to women and cervical cancer: 7.7 females out of every 100,000 a year develop cervical cancer. These are rare and less frequent events. But we care about them. We do not underestimate them, we screen these individuals, trying to prevent this from happening.” That's my point of view.”
Dr. Rose criticized the study for not investigating a wider range of symptoms reported by vaccinated individuals, which, although less serious, significantly impact daily life. Many have reported symptoms such as chest heaviness, persistent headaches, brain fog, and new-onset arrhythmias, but their prevalence and link to the vaccine remains unexplored.
“There are tens of millions of people screaming from the rooftops, saying that after they got the vaccine, they experienced only basic symptoms, or not so basic symptoms, but not that serious, but symptoms that impaired their activities of daily living.”
“They can't live the way they used to live on a daily basis. These are things that include chest heaviness, constant headaches every day, brain fog, malaise after exertion, neuropathy, weakness, new irregular heartbeats, structural heart damage, autoimmune conditions, “All these different things. I could name 100 other things, probably. Why don't we look at those things? The things we're looking at in this study, in particular, are things that are very rare and very dangerous and life-threatening.”
When Cuomo asked about the suggestion that vaccination reduces the long-term risk of COVID-19, Dr. Rose dropped a truth bomb.
“In our personal experience, what we're seeing is that this is a mixed bag. It's a mixed bag. We need more data on that. But it appears that many patients who had long Covid who were vaccinated actually got worse rather than better,” he said. Dr. Rose.
“In my experience, and in a lot of the experiences of my colleagues who are taking care of these patients across the country, so I think this needs to be looked at more closely.”
“And Chris, there was also a study that just came out on pregnant women last week. And when you look at that study, over 51% of pregnant women who had long Covid were vaccinated, and there was a little bit more, hedging more on those patients who “They were vaccinated, and they continued to develop long Covid versus not. So, this is a multifactorial thing again. There are multiple things at play. People have had multiple vaccines and been exposed to the virus multiple times.”
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