The association between covid vaccination and retinal vascular occlusion

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-023-00661-7

This one has a personal experience for me. A family member has had 3 covid vaccines. January 2021, February 2021, and a booster in December 2021. A few months later ophthalmology noticed some micro-clotting in the retinal artery. A huge scare event was made out of it that “it may be carotid clotting shattering mini clots”. I commented at that time that I suspected it may be the covid vaccines because they had ZERO history of any clotting disorders. In fact, quite the opposite. Every cardiology and vascular study was negative for clots or issues prior to the retinal artery micro-clotting. They took daily low dose aspirin and statins for decades (I know, statins are worthless but none the less total cholesterol was low and had been for decades), zero history of clotting issues. Anywho, they were sent for a vascular study and lo and behold, there was zero clotting in the carotids. The craziest part was that ophthalmology just dropped it at that point. “Watch and wait”. My gut told me then it was related to the vaccine, but I had no proof. I did comment to one family member that I thought it might be vaccine related. Remember, this was February 2022. A month before I even started writing this substack.

And now we have this journal article posted last week.

“The cumulative incidence of retinal vascular occlusion was significantly higher in the vaccinated cohort compared to the unvaccinated cohort, 2 years and 12 weeks after vaccination. The risk of retinal vascular occlusion significantly increased during the first 2 weeks after vaccination and persisted for 12 weeks. Additionally, individuals with first and second dose of BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 had significantly increased risk of retinal vascular occlusion 2 years following vaccination, while no disparity was detected between brand and dose of vaccines. This large multicenter study strengthens the findings of previous cases. Retinal vascular occlusion may not be a coincidental finding after COVID-19 vaccination.”

Their cohort criteria was this: “After excluding cases with confirmation of COVID-19 diagnosis, 6,755,737 individuals were separated into two cohorts: 883,177 vaccinated and 5,871,737 unvaccinated individuals. In both cohorts, any diagnosis of retinal vascular occlusion six months prior to the index date was excluded. We also considered the effect of systemic medications and excluded cases with the use of any antiplatelets, anticoagulants, diuretics, contraceptives, or antihemorrhages 4 weeks prior to the index date. Note, my family member met all of these criteria. At the time of the retinal artery inclusion, they HAD been vaccinated 2 months prior and 12 months prior. They had NEVER had covid up to that point of the occlusion. They did not take any of the systemic medications noted as exclusionary. They had no prior issues with vessel occlusion in the eye. My family member is this case study.

This table is NOT favorable for the vaccines whatsoever. Nothing is favorable for the vaccines at this point.

This study declares no competing concerns and does not appear to be paid for by pharma or Gates, the publisher Springer does make sure to note they are “neutral” in this article. Eyeroll.