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Interpretation:

>This early warning system is the first to identify temporal associations
for PE, AMI, DIC, and ITP following BNT162b2 vaccination in the
elderly. Because an early warning system does not prove that the
vaccines cause these outcomes, more robust epidemiologic studies with
adjustment for confounding, including age and nursing home residency,
are underway to further evaluate these signals. FDA strongly believes
the potential benefits of COVID-19 vaccination outweigh the potential
risks of COVID-19 infection.

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The last statement about what the FDA believes can be substantiated by the fact that whatever risk and association the vaccine has to something like PE, covid’s values are magnitudes more, right?

In other words, yes. The agency supports vaccination because of the benefits outweighing the risks.

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The patients receiving the Pfizer vaccine were older, sicker, and more likely to be in nursing homes. The RR fell to 1.15 for pulmonary embolism and 1.26 for immune thrombocytopenia after controlling for this. The baseline rates were on the order of 0.06% and 0.01%, respectively, so even assuming that this is a real effect and not just a result of inadequate controls, this is roughly equivalent to an increase in absolute risk of 0.01% for PE and 0.003% for IT (doing very rough math in my head).

I had a stroke following my Pfizer vaccine, I had poor health at the time and I think of it as a contributor. I’m in my thirties.

The best hospital on the CA has in my record “patient received Pfizer vaccine the day before…”, along with the official diagnosis is of a “cryptogenic stroke”. I did every possible test to see if it was related to anything else and nothing was found. Some skeptical doctors tested me for even longer periods (heart, neuro), no abnormal test results came back. I have a problem with my immune system, and delayed getting the vaccine, so it makes sense to me.

I experienced bruising all through my body, inability to exercise, several month long brain fog, stunted capacity to read/focus similar to my initial COVID symptoms triggered by my first dose.

This was in my 20’s, perfect health, no pre existing conditions.

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Interesting. While I'm not elderly (42), I did receive a Pfizer vaccine. A little background: I'm very healthy and in tip-top shape. No pre-existing health conditions yet about two or three weeks after getting the Pfizer vaccine, I suffered a severe DVT (deep vein thrombosis, a blood clot in the leg). This began a series of health problems that have gone totally unexplained from any and all medical professionals and I cannot help but to suspect we're caused by the vaccine.

Now prior to these medical anomalies, I would have been one of the last people to suggest the vaccines could be responsible for anything more than what amounted to a statistical rounding error. But now, well I just don't know. I do know, as someone who had been sick with Covid before being vaccinated, that the virus was exponentially easier and more preferred to me than it's supposed solution.

As to my unexplained medical issues, I had the DVT, I also had (ha bf e) some mysterious kidney dysfunction that seemed to only affected my ability to effectively move fluids from my extremities, as I would get swelling in my legs and hands. This is evidently unrelated to the blood cloth and in addition to the blood thinner I must take I am taking a diuretic for the edema.

Also, I recently had an experience in which I experienced the absolute worst pain of my life. Coming from someone who has experienced cluster headaches and kidney stones, in addition to everything that comes along with a spinal cord injury, that isn't something that is sad lightly. That experience was severe pancreatitis. And like everything else, it has been completely unexplained. As a teetotaler, the usual cause of alcohol consumption was off the table. As was every other explanation drs could think of at the hospital,which was in for 10 days, 6 of which i could neithereat or drink anything (I had to take fluids thru IV).

That was in October and to this day, I've had no .explanation or reasons for any of these severe incidents. I cannot shake the certain that they all have one common factor.

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