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COVID-19 Vaccines Aren’t Causing AIDS
The truth behind a new preprint from a team at Yale
This piece was written with the wonderful Dr. Andrea Love, who has an article out on the same problematic study from an immunological perspective. Check it out!
A new preprint study on COVID-19 vaccines has set the world afire. According to advocates for restrictions, the new data upholds long-standing beliefs that Long COVID causes permanent immune damage and is a terrifying force for the world. According to anti-vaccine advocates, such as the pandemic’s wrongest man, this preprint finally proves the idea that vaccine AIDS is a real disease coming for us all.
Fortunately for the globe, neither of these positions are reasonable or supported by the body of evidence. While every piece of data looking at COVID-19 vaccines is contentious, this new preprint contains minimal data, and doesn’t tell us much if anything about the potential issues that vaccines might cause.
There are certainly harms caused by COVID-19 vaccines. These are well-understood, and have been proven for years. Around 1 in 100,000 men and 1 in 1,000,000 women vaccinated with mRNA vaccines on their first course will experience myocarditis or pericarditis. A smaller number — around 1 in 1,000,000 people — will experience anaphylaxis. For viral vector…
