Science magazine is recognizing the “rare” link between covid vaccines and “long covid-like illness”

https://www.science.org/content/article/rare-link-between-coronavirus-vaccines-and-long-covid-illness-starts-gain-acceptance

Warning, while reading this, they are HEAVILY minimizing the risk of the vaccine and tout how safe and effective they were for millions of people. But they are starting to mention that it is not good for everyone (anyone in my opinion) and before a dam breaks, it always starts with a little crack and a few drips. This is a little crack and a drip.

“You see one or two patients and you wonder if it’s a coincidence,” says Anne Louise Oaklander, a neurologist and researcher at Harvard Medical School. “But by the time you’ve seen 10, 20,” she continues, trailing off. “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”

“Symptoms can include persistent headaches, severe fatigue, and abnormal heart rate and blood pressure. They appear hours, days, or weeks after vaccination and are difficult to study. But researchers and clinicians are increasingly finding some alignment with known medical conditions. One is small fiber neuropathy, a condition Oaklander studies, in which nerve damage can cause tingling or electric shock–like sensations, burning pain, and blood circulation problems. The second is a more nebulous syndrome, with symptoms sometimes triggered by small fiber neuropathy, called postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). It can involve muscle weakness, swings in heart rate and blood pressure, fatigue, and brain fog.”

“AN IMMUNE OVERREACTION to SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, which COVID-19 vaccines use to induce protective antibodies, is one possible cause of these symptoms. One theory is that after vaccination some people generate another round of antibodies targeting the first. Those antibodies could function somewhat like spike itself: Spike targets a cell surface protein called the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor, enabling the virus to enter cells. The rogue antibodies might also bind to ACE2, which helps regulate blood pressure and heart rate, says Bernhard Schieffer, a cardiologist at the University of Marburg. If those antibodies disrupt ACE2 signaling, that could cause the racing heart rates and blood pressure swings seen in POTS. Small fiber neurons also have the ACE2 receptor on their surface, so in theory rogue antibodies could contribute to neuropathy. But Matthew Schelke, a neurologist at Columbia University who has treated small fiber neuropathy in both Long Covid and postvaccine patients, says pinning down a connection won’t be easy. Even when unusual antibodies turn up in someone’s blood, “it’s extremely difficult to know if any of these are pathogenic or if they are just bystanders,” he says. Other immune system components that fuel inflammation may also harm nerves, he notes.

“Some people appear susceptible to complications after both infection and vaccination, a double vulnerability that can put them in an agonizing situation—eschewing more vaccine doses, often on the advice of their doctors, but also fearing the hazards of Long Covid. Reddy falls into this category. She caught the virus in early 2020 while caring for an infected patient and developed Long Covid, including POTS. Her symptoms dramatically worsened after her first vaccine dose. An emergency medicine physician in New York City, Saleena Subaiya, experienced the same phenomenon in reverse. Within 24 hours of the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine in January 2021, they developed severe cognitive impairment, fatigue, and a loss of balance. Subaiya improved somewhat over the next year, but was forced to switch to a part-time research job. Then in December 2021, they were hit by Omicron and relapsed. “Postvaccination illness is “a long, relentless disease,” says Lawrence Purpura, an infectious disease specialist at Columbia University who is also Subaiya’s partner—and who treats both Long Covid patients and those with chronic symptoms after vaccination.”

The saddest part of this article is how they suppressed data over a YEAR ago about vaccine injury. “SCIENCE FIRST wrote about these health concerns in January 2022, describing efforts by scientists at the National Institutes of Health to study and treat affected individuals. A study including 23 people was posted as a preprint in May 2022 but never published. Following Science’s story, almost 200 people contacted the journal sharing their postvaccination symptoms. Research has since proceeded slowly. This is “a challenging outcome to monitor,” Tom Shimabukuro of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told a government advisory committee in January. Still, more than two dozen case studies have accumulated describing POTS or small fiber neuropathy following a COVID-19 shot, regardless of the vaccine manufacturer.”

Drip drip drip drip. People keep coming forward despite their best efforts to keep this quiet.