Shingles

[Strumpet]

SHINGLES could be a new but rare side effect of the coronavirus vaccine, doctors have discovered.

Experts in Israel found that patients with certain autoimmune diseases who received the Pfizer/BioNTech jab were more likely to develop the rash than those without the condition.

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[RedApple Administrator]

I found this from a couple of days ago dailymail.co.uk/health/arti...

[Beads]

The thing about shingles is that it’s a reactivation of the chickenpox virus which has hidden in your nerve endings since you’ve recovered from chickenpox. Anything that causes a change to your immune system can let it reactivate, so if you’re busy fighting a non-disease caused by a vaccination your immune system could take its eye off the virus lurking in the body already and cause a flare. This could happen with any vaccination it’s just that there have been so many more COVID jabs done we have more data and are seeing trends that may have always been there but not in quantities that made them visible/relevant.

For instance, say the flu jab caused it as well. If we give out a million flu jabs a year and it’s a one in a million chance, then we’d get one case of shingles. This is ‘just one of those things’, ‘they were going to get it anyway’, ‘they could have picked it up anywhere’, all those things would be said.

But we’ve done 30+ million COVID jabs (in the UK) in the last 4 months, suddenly we have 30 cases of shingles, all reported within a week of the jab, suddenly there’s a correlation.

I’m just using this as an example of a possible scenario, not commenting on the paper or the link. I know it’s wrong of me to think like this as there have been so many deaths and so much ongoing suffering with long-COVID, but I really think this is an exciting time to be in the medical and research field (I would love to be working in epidemiology right now), it’s a 7 billion member clinical trial, the amount of data that can be generated with regard to epidemics, treatment, vaccination, prevention, etc is amazing!

[Diana49]

Where will I find the 'coronavirus live blog' that you mention? Thanks.

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to Diana49]

Unfortunately there are dozens or hundreds (or more?) sites which could be the one referred to - and we don't know which one was meant.

RedApple did add a link but just trying to help - it would not appear to be the one originally referred to.