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Mar 17, 2022 · Pages of suspected side effects released about Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine ‘may not have any causal relationship’ to the jab, company says. Nine pages of adverse event reports from Pfizer ...
Mar 11, 2022 · Based on this document, multiple posts and memes (see examples here, here, and here) claimed that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine caused a lengthy list of serious side effects, ranging from epilepsy to liver injury to autoimmune diseases.
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A Pfizer document recently released by the Food and Drug Administration describes adverse events reported following vaccination and attests to the continued safety of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine. A popular video and other online posts, however, incorrectly imply that the vaccine caused the events. Many posts also wrongly assume that a long list ...
After more than 1 billion doses administered worldwide— including more than325 million in the U.S. — and more than a year of safety monitoring, the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccineis considered to be very safe. Many people experience temporary symptoms, such as fever, headache or pain at the site of injection. But those aren’t dangerous and are sig...
All of these posts misunderstand what is being reported in the Pfizer document. The document is an analysis of adverse events, or health issues reported following vaccination, regardless of whether they were caused by the vaccine. Tracking of such events is useful for companies and regulators to identify possible safety signals, particularly of rar...
Mar 1, 2022 · By Vivian Lam March 23, 2022. Fact-checking false claims that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine labels hid safety information. If Your Time is short. The Pfizer report analyzes adverse events, which...
Feb 27, 2024 · SciCheck Digest. An international study of around 99 million people confirmed known serious side effects of COVID-19 vaccination. It also identified a possible relationship between the first...
Mar 23, 2022 · 23 March 2022. What was claimed. A newly published document lists side effects from Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine. Our verdict. This is not true. The document lists adverse events reported after vaccination, which may not have been caused by the vaccine. It also says these adverse events raise no safety concerns.
Mar 9, 2022 · Looking at the more common adverse events in the Pfizer document, seen in two per cent of cases or more, all are what one would expect after getting a vaccine and when the immune system is excited ...
