So you can get covid from the shot! Or at least some of the same problems you can get from contracting covid. So some people arent so nuts for being hesitant.
I got my booster this morning and made sure to ask the nurse to aspirate, which she did. Went for Moderna instead of Pfizer this time.
These YouTube videos have a combination of good information but there's also some things that are mentioned that Dr Campbell doesn't clarify or make a point to call out as speculation.
The first video is discussing a vaccine that was never offered in the US (it is offered in Canada and the UK but is being phased out). Back in 2020, when the vaccines were coming out of trials,
there was a post in this thread discussing the different vaccines that were coming out.
The AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine uses older technology that involves inserting DNA from COVID-19 into a human or a chimpanzee cold virus. It is how vaccines were developed before mRNA technology was perfected. This technique- viral vector vaccination- does tend to trigger more adverse effects than the mRNA vaccines.
Most people who work in large hospitals ICUs will be able to tell you about a patient that they have seen who came in with sudden heart failure or unexplained blood clots. Many times, the history of these patients is that they had "a cold" that was mild but after the cold was getting better, suddenly they had inexplicable blood clots develop or they suddenly- out of nowhere- went into heart failure. Inflammation of the heart (myocarditis) or inflammation of the sac around the heart (pericarditis). It's not known why this happens but for some reason, there is a population of people who develop these issues after
any viral infection.
What the research about the AstraZeneca vaccine seems to show is that there is a small group of patients who react to the cold virus used as the viral vector in the vaccine. They are
not reacting to the COVID-19 RNA in the vaccine, but instead they develop a reaction to the chimpanzee cold virus that is used to carry the COVID-19 RNA.
Here's the thing with myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) in young men who received the COVID-19 vaccines:
more men developed myocarditis from COVID-19 than from receiving the vaccine. As I mentioned before, you can develop myocarditis from any viral infection, including the common cold. Your risk of myocarditis in much higher if you get COVID-19 (or any viral infection, for that matter) than your risk of getting myocarditis from the vaccines.
Current practice: it is no longer recommended that the syringe be aspirated (i.e. have the plunger pulled back) during an intramuscular injection. This technique was taught for years, even though research showed that the risk of hitting a vein is extremely low. About 20 years ago,
they changed the recommendations in the US and we no longer teach vaccinators to aspirate:
Aspiration before injection of vaccines or toxoids (i.e., pulling back on the syringe plunger after needle insertion but before injection) is not necessary because no large blood vessels are present at the recommended injection sites, and a process that includes aspiration might be more painful for infants.
Dr John Campbell, is a PhD, not an MD. He is a retired nurse educator. He does have some good videos on his site. However, he got a little ahead of himself by assuming that "a metallic taste" after injection indicated that it was injected into a vein without any evidence.
The subject of his interview, Kyle, would be a good research subject. Kyle is describing something known as POTS - Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. What is interesting is that there's a lot of COVID-19 patients who are coming in long-hauler syndrome who have POTS. POTS is part of a group of syndromes that we've known about for a long time that occurred in people who have what is commonly called chronic fatigue syndrome. It would be worth studying Kyle to find out what has triggered these symptoms but it's not clear that they had anything to do with the vaccination.
The way that I used to explain the danger of this reasoning is the "throw the newspaper at the dog training method". If you catch your dog doing something bad, you can often break them of the habit by making a loud noise or by throwing an folded newspaper toward them to startle them. In the dog's mind, it becomes, "Everytime I chew on a shoe, a newspaper falls out of the sky". The two things- chewing on a shoe and a newspaper falling out of the sky- aren't really connected in this way.
Just because two things happen, it doesn't necessarily mean that one is the cause and one is the symptom.
Kyle mentions a lot of things - a hypersensitive immune system (MCAS), athletic training, eating "bad foods" and a vaccine. The danger is that anti-vaxxers love to make dog and newspaper connections and since they already believe that vaccines are dangerous, they'll take this story and turn it into an explanation for something they already believe. Kyle is worth studying but MCAS and POTS develop without any apparent reason, so it can't be assumed that his health issues are connected to his vaccination.
