Study: Vaccination Reduces Risk of COVID-Related Heart Complications

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The Facts

  • A study of people in the UK, Spain, and Estonia showed that COVID vaccinations could substantially decrease the risk of severe, virus-related heart problems, such as heart failure and blood clots for up to one year.

  • Researchers, who published their results in the journal Heart, examined the records of more than 20M people — half of whom were vaccinated — with the goal of studying the association between the vaccine and the risk of post-COVID cardiac and blood clot complications.

  • Subjects were placed into four cohorts, with the first including older people, the second being populated by people more prone to severe infection, the third including those 40 and older, and the fourth featuring people 18 and older.


The Spin

Pro-establishment narrative

This is just the latest of many studies showing that the benefits of life-saving COVID vaccinations far outweigh any side effects. There's always the risk that some individuals’ bodies will have adverse responses, but they're extremely rare and benign compared to the severity of the virus itself.


Establishment-critical narrative

These studies are often paid for by the pharmaceutical companies to assuage public concerns about vaccines. Meanwhile, the media refuses to tell the stories of the countless people who suffered heart complications — or worse — after being forced into taking the experimental shots. The jury is still out and this censorship continues today.



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