Covid Vacine and Autoimmune

[Bcol]

Professor Van-Tam MBE, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England stated quite categorically on BBC Breakfast this morning that the Covid vaccine had been tested on and was perfectly safe for those people with Autoimmune and other ailments.

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Good news!

[PMRpro Ambassador]

I heard a bit of the press conference with the CMO at BioNTech yesterday and I'm sure she mentioned it had been tested in a/i patients but I wasn't listening properly at the time!

[Hidden in reply to PMRpro]

Yes, I would think that we require more info so that we can make an educated decision to have the shot, doctors in my local surgery would just stick it without checking records. It's a case of look after yourself I am afraid. Get better advice from the gateman.

[piglette]

I would like to see some more results. This vaccine has never been tested on infectious diseases. I think back to the polio vaccine of the 1950s, “investigations revealed that the vaccine, manufactured by the California-based family firm of Cutter Laboratories, had caused 40 000 cases of polio, leaving 200 children with varying degrees of paralysis and killing 10.” I am being sceptical!

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to piglette]

Bit different - it was a live vaccine.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl....

[GOOD_GRIEF in reply to PMRpro]

Also, it was a manufacturing error.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to GOOD_GRIEF]

Like the vit D scandal in Europe that stopped fortification of most things here?

[GOOD_GRIEF in reply to PMRpro]

Sorry, not familiar with that.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to GOOD_GRIEF]

Not sure how many, but babies and small children died after a mistake was made with supplementing foods with vit D. Which led to demands for the practice to be stopped - very few things have had added vit D in Europe since. Now there are calls for it to be reversed.

[ZenZen in reply to piglette]

The Cutter case was an anomaly in which that batch of vaccine was incorrectly made. A horrible error, but not based on the actual, approved vaccine.

[PMRCanada]

I found this online:

healthydebate.ca/personal-h...

[Bcol in reply to PMRCanada]

Thank you, more interesting reading. At least they all seem to be saying its safe to take