Cardiac arrythmia--3.8 times more frequent; 166 extra cases per 100,000
Acute kidney injury--14.8 times more frequent; 125.4 extra cases per 100,000
Pulmonary embolism--blood clot in the lungs--12.4 times more frequent; 61.7 extra cases per 100,000
Myocardial infarction--heart attack4.47 times more frequent; 25 extra cases per 100,000
Deep-vein thrombosis--3.78 times more frequent; 43 extra cases per 100,000
Myocarditis--18.3 times more frequent; 11 extra cases per 100,000
Pericarditis--5.39 times more frequent; 10.9 extra cases per 100,000
Intracranial bleeding--6.89 times more frequent; 7.6 extra cases per 100,000
The vaccine is not risk free, but equally clearly, it does not cause anything like the degree or kinds of risk that anti-vaccination advocates and believers warn of. And the risks from the vaccine pale in comparison to the far higher risks from a Covid infection.
Here's what Dr. Ran Balicer, the study's lead author, concludes:
"These results show convincingly that this mRNA vaccine is very safe and that the alternative of 'natural' morbidity caused by the coronavirus puts a person at significant, higher and much more common risk of serious adverse events. These data should facilitate informed individual risk-benefit decision-making, and, in our view, make a strong argument in favor of opting-in to get vaccinated, especially in countries where the virus is currently widespread."
I'd add that the United States, which leads the world in Covid cases and deaths, qualifies as one of those countries.
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