Gregory Michael, a 56-year-old Florida obstetrician-gynecologist, to sow doubts about vaccine safety and government oversight. Here in the U.S., vaccine opponents have pounced on the tragedy of Dr. Kennedy described the deaths as suspicious, accusing medical officials of following an “all-too-familiar vaccine propaganda playbook” and “strategic chicanery.”
“Coincidence is turning out to be quite lethal to COVID vaccine recipients,” Kennedy wrote. Norway reviewing deaths of frail and elderly patients vaccinated against Covid-19 Norwegian officials have said the elderly patients died of their underlying illnesses, not from the vaccine.Ī health worker prepares a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination campaign of members of the Emergency Medical Services of Madrid (SUMMA) in Madrid on January 12, 2021. In an interview, Kennedy said the post-vaccination deaths of some very frail and terminally ill nursing home patients in Norway are a danger sign. He cast doubt on statements by medical authorities in Denmark who said the deaths of two people there after vaccination were due to old age and chronic lung disease. In a blog post, Kennedy scoffed at autopsy results that concluded a Portuguese woman’s death was unrelated to a vaccine. Kennedy Jr., are already inflaming fears about a handful of deaths - mostly in Europe - that have followed the worldwide rollout of immunizations.
“Even if we come back later and say, “No, had nothing to do with vaccination, it was coronary artery disease,’ the damage has already been done.”Īnti-vaccine groups such as the National Vaccine Information Center and Children’s Health Defense, founded by Robert F. “You get one chance to make a first impression,” Osterholm said. Public health officials need to do a better job communicating the risks - real and imagined - from vaccines, said Osterholm, who served on President Joe Biden’s transition coronavirus advisory board. “They will make assumptions that it’s cause and effect.” he had a heart attack,” Osterholm said on his weekly podcast. “The media will write a story that John Doe got his vaccine at 8 a.m. Public health officials “are not ready” for the onslaught of news and social media stories to come, he cautioned. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty ImagesĬovid-19 vaccine can't be safe and other mythsĪs more seniors receive their first covid shots, many will inevitably suffer from unrelated heart attacks, strokes and other serious medical problems - not because of the vaccine but, rather, their age and declining health, said epidemiologist Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy.įor example, in a group of 10 million people, nearly 800 people ages 55 to 64 typically die of heart attacks or coronary disease in one week, Osterholm said. To achieve the estimated 80% of uptake of a vaccine required for community protection, we need a serious, well-funded and community-based public engagement strategy," said Melinda Mills, an Oxford University professor and expert in demographic science who led the report.US Surgeon General Jerome Adams receives the COVID-19 vaccine in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, December 18, 2020. "Vaccines and vaccination are two very different things. It said an "open dialogue" is critical to building public support for COVID-19 vaccination, and called for a "frank conversation" to manage public expectations that life will not immediately get back to normal when vaccines arrive. LONDON (Reuters) - An 80% uptake of a COVID-19 vaccine may be needed to protect communities from the novel coronavirus, but volatile levels of misinformation and vaccine mistrust could undermine efforts to tackle the pandemic, British scientists said on Tuesday.Ī report by scientific institutions the British Academy and the Royal Society found that, in part due to circulating misinformation and behavioural factors, around 36% of people in Britain say they are either uncertain or very unlikely to agree to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
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