Rep. Debbie Dingell developed a severe nerve condition from a mandatory swine flu vaccine, which initially made her "scared to death" to get a COVID-19 vaccine, she told a congressional hearing last week.
The Michigan Democrat might want to reconsider her now-unquestioning enthusiasm for COVID vaccines, including those made through traditional methods, in light of a massive international study of "adverse events of special interest" funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and set to be published in the peer-reviewed Elsevier journal Vaccine.
Members of the research team, which stretched from the Americas to Europe, China and Australia, said they identified "potential safety signal[s] of concern" following mRNA and adenovirus-vector vaccination when the "observed versus expected" ratio of a given AESI rose above 1 at the lower boundary of the 95% confidence interval and reached statistical significance.
Several AESIs exceeded the lower-boundary ratio of 1.5 "across neurological, haematological, and cardiac outcomes," including Dingell's Guillain-Barré syndrome and heart inflammation, in their study of Global Vaccine Data Network records of more than 99 million individuals vaccinated in eight countries.
