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"Long-term consequences" after the corona vaccination? A misunderstanding that divides society

2021-10-31T10:44:40.901Z


Afraid after a corona vaccination? Or a queasy feeling about what exactly is going on in the body? In an exclusive interview, the Vice President of the Paul Ehrlich Institute explains what “long-term consequences” are really all about.


Afraid after a corona vaccination?

Or a queasy feeling about what exactly is going on in the body?

In an exclusive interview, the Vice President of the Paul Ehrlich Institute explains what “long-term consequences” are really all about.

Munich - "Almost not", "highly unlikely" and "practically not possible" are the statements of the vaccination experts when it comes to the consequences of a corona vaccination that set in late. So far, however, no one has really ruled it out. Fears about vaccine damage are widespread: Football player Joshua Kimmich, among others, had this doubt. In an interview, he recently announced that he had not yet had himself vaccinated because he had concerns about “the lack of long-term studies.” A statement made in the

FAZ

was described as "stupid".

But what can happen a long time after a corona vaccination?

Can a cerebral vein thrombosis or myocarditis still occur months after a corona vaccination?

Prof. Stefan Vieths, Vice President of the Paul Ehrlich Institute, explains in an exclusive interview with Merkur.de the incomprehensible background to the misunderstanding of the word "long-term consequences".

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Vice-President of the Paul Ehrlich Institute Prof. Stefan Vieths

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Paul Ehrlich Institute

Long-term effects of vaccination: difference between late and long-lasting effects

Vieths says there are two ways to define the term "long-term effects".

On the one hand, that they “only occur a long time after the vaccination and, on the other hand, that they last a long time”.

However, "with vaccines, we generally do not know that long-term effects only occur many years after vaccination," says the expert.

However, this fear plows through the internet, social media and apparently soccer teams as well.

Anyone who tries to counter it is often referred to as a "nut" on the internet.

Vaccination as a cause of death?

“Of course there are consequences of vaccinations that last longer and can also be negative,” says Vieths. This includes, for example, sinus vein thrombosis, i.e. the blockage of a venous blood vessel in the brain. This occurred in very rare cases and occurred in the first three weeks after vaccination.

The myocarditis, which occurred in 164 people out of 177 million mRNA vaccinated (vaccines from Moderna and Biontech / Pfizer) in the European Economic Area, did so in the first 14 days after vaccination, as did the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Paul-Ehrlich -Institute reported.

All but three percent could be treated medically.

Fatal side effects after a corona vaccination cannot therefore be ruled out, but they are considered very rare and often the patient's health situation could not be fully clarified.

Vaccination protection as a long-term consequence

What Vieths also emphasizes, however, is that the concept of long-term consequences is often negatively affected.

It can also have a positive effect on health.

"A desirable long-term consequence of vaccinations is that they protect against infections for a long time," explains Vieths.

Just like a measles vaccination lasts a lifetime.

With corona vaccinations, it is more likely that the vaccine is broken down too quickly by the body, which is why booster vaccinations are necessary.

Prof. Stefan Vieths on vaccinations: "You can completely rule out late effects"

In principle, however, it is practically impossible for negative long-term effects to appear very, very late, says Vieths. "What can happen is that certain negative effects are only noticed late, namely when they are very, very rare," says Vieths, "because they can only be noticed when very, very many people have been vaccinated." Since this was achieved very quickly in the case of the coronavirus, very rare side effects such as sinus vein thrombosis could be discovered at an early stage. In the registration study of the vaccine Vaxzevria (previously Astrazeneca) with twelve thousand participants, it was not found due to the number of participants.

"We know from decades of experience with vaccinations that most side effects occur within a few hours or days," says Vieths, "in rare cases it happens that vaccine side effects are only recognized after several weeks."

No signs of increased mortality after corona vaccine

The Paul Ehrlich Institute is responsible, among other things, for examining the reported side effects of people who have been vaccinated against corona.

In August 2021, it reported that there was “no signal of an overall increase in mortality after a corona vaccine.” For example, there were a total of 1,225 deaths from a vaccine in over 92 million people who were vaccinated.

However, none of these fatal courses can be traced back to a consequence that took a long time to occur.

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Paul Ehrlich Institute

Source: merkur

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