The CDC of the United States is looking for potential stroke risks in senior citizens who take the Pfizer COVID-19 shot. The news was mentioned in a recently released database of the CDC.
As per the data, it could be comprehended that there is still a possible risk of stroke for older adults especially the ones above the age of 65.
The senior citizen who received an updated version of the Pfizer COVID-19 booster shot is the ones in the risk category. In comparison to the earlier released risk level, the latest database shows that the risk has now decreased.
Although the Food and Drug Administration of the United States stated that as far as, they have not been able to detect a link between the strokes and shots in the other two databases that are employed to monitor safety.
At the start of January, the health officials of the United States had stated in their Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) database, that a possible connection to ischemic strokes in people above the age of 65 who had received the updated booster shots have been detected.
Regarding the representation of the data, the officials said that the it was extremely unlikely to do a representation of true clinical risk.
The Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) data for the CDC is handled by an American nonprofit healthcare company known as Kaiser Permanente.
Dr. Nicole Klein, a senior research scientist at the healthcare company said that the rate of strokes that was observed in the database had slowed in recent weeks. He added that, however, the signal was still significant according to the statistics, conveying a meaning that it was likely not by chance.
Another data that was unraveled as the result of the observation was that a majority of the confirmed cases had also taken a jab for the flu at the same time. This is also under consideration as a causing factor.
Richard Forshee, the Associate Director for Research in the Office of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said that the agency has plans to conduct a study to find out if there was any increased risk of stroke from receiving the two shots at the same time.
Both the agencies, the CDC and the FDA are still pertaining to tier recommendations toward the senior citizen to receive the booster shots that have recently shifted their focus on Omicron variants. It is to be noted that the booster hots has not completely shifted their target from the original COVID-19 virus.
Professor of Medicine. Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Walid Gellad, said that the pertaining issue requires further investigation before finalizing anything.
He, in an email, had written that signals did not have a clear status always. He continued that it would make more sense to look into it more and it did not make any sense to make changes to the practice on the sole basis of the known benefits of taking the booster shot, especially in the concerned age group of older adults especially those who are above 65 years of age.
In another related event, an undercover video portrayed an executive of Pfizer revealing his suspicion that COVID was a result that caused from the mutation of the Virus in Wuhan, China.
Jordon Trishton Walker is alleged as the Director of research and development, strategic operations, and mRNA scientific planning of Pfizer.
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He is alleged as working for Project Veritas, an undercover operation conducting agency. In the recorded video, he was seen admitting that he along with other executives at Pfizer have had a discussion about the mutation of COVID viruses as a measure to develop suitable vaccines to treat the causes.
He asked whether did everyone had knowledge of the way how the virus undergoes the process of mutation. He continued that one of the things that the team was conducting research on was about the possibilities of mutating the COVID variants so that they could create preemptively build new vaccines.
He viewed that the virus was itself undergoing a mutation and forming new variants and genetic structure day by day and in that case, why should the scientist not conduct a mutation by themselves so that they can in advance know more about the aftereffects of the virus and develop an effective way to treat the variants beforehand it was getting spread.
It was understood in the video that along with Walker there was another undercover investigator of Project Veritas, who was in a discussion with the prior one. Walker was suggesting conducting the experiments on monkeys and proceeding with the research.
In relation to the pandemic vaccination, the Pfizer shots are trending on social media platforms. In the video shared by the people post receiving the shot shows the physical conditions and symptoms that they are going through.
In the videos, many of the people were seen experiencing extreme body tremors and uncontrollable shivers in their limbs, especially in the legs. Netizens are sharing related memes saying that they have not felt the same since they received the COVID-19 jab.
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