Vaccine side-effects

2022 - 3 - 9

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Daily news update: Pfizer vaccine side effects, Digital Vibes and ... (Citizen)

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In the past decade, South Africa’s embattled power utility Eskom has become increasingly reliant on the country’s open cycle gas turbines (OCGT) to supplement the energy mix. Anti-vaxxers thought they were given an early Christmas present when the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) for the first time allowed the public to access Pfizer data from its clinical trials in support of a Covid-19 vaccine licence. The Special Tribunal on Tuesday reserved judgment in the Special Investigating Unit’s (SIU) joinder application, as the unit seeks to recover millions of rand from six entities and individuals who allegedly received money from the Department of Health’s unlawful contract awarded to Digital Vibes.

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Cheeky! Nando's takes a jab at vaccine side-effects 'controversy' (The South African)

Nando's are offering free jabs to conspiracy theorists, who are having a field day with a Pfizer report detailing rare vaccine side-effects ...

However, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Tom Shimabukuro, their data suggests 92% of the negative side-effects were not serious with less than 1% of people seeking any medical care following vaccination. It read: “With all the conspiracy in the air, we wanted to clear something up… #VaccineSideEffects”

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Pfizer vaccine side effects: Much ado about nothing, here's why (Citizen)

Anti-vaxxers thought they were given an early Christmas present when the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Center for Biologics Evaluation and ...

“The health event may or may not be caused by the vaccine,” said the NICD. Closer to home, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, which has been successfully managing disease outbreaks in the country, explains that an “adverse event following immunisation” (AEFI) is any detrimental health event that happens after a person receives a vaccine. “Fortunately they were not allowed to do this (keep the findings confidential) so we are allowed to see the document which is stamped literally everywhere with big confidential stamps,” said Wheeler. (It’s not).

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Nando's Joins Response to Vaccine Side Effects Video (SAPeople News)

As #VaccineSideEffects and #Pfizer tweets go viral in South Africa, trending in the top two spots, SA's fast food peri-peri chicken outlet Nando's has ...

The BBC reported that the study, which looked at ‘adverse events’ from almost 300 million vaccine doses administered in the US, found no link between the mRNA vaccines and the number of deaths recorded after vaccination. The most common side effects were pain at the site of injection, headaches, fever, chills and fatigue. In other vaccine news, a large study into rare blood clots linked to AstraZeneca’s vaccine has found between just one and three cases per million, and only after the first dose. In the video Wheeler “falsely claims the (US’) top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, repeatedly “lied” to the American public about the COVID-19 pandemic. Many South Africans who were scared of taking the vaccine because of conspiracy theories, have posted on Twitter today, feeling vindicated by American conservative commentator Liz Wheeler’s comments in a video that’s gone viral. #VaccineSideEffects” They posted an image on which the words “the only effect our sides have is a full stomach”.

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