The connection between the covid vaccine and Alzheimer’s disease
https://academic.oup.com/qjmed/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qjmed/hcae103/7684274?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false
Anecdotally, the number of neurocognitive impaired patients in my office is at an all time high. I am sending more and more patients for neurology work-ups than ever before. Which explains why it takes 8 months to GET an appointment with a neurologist. I would guess that most of us know someone who has had a decline in their mental status after covid vaccines.
Here is a breakdown of the study (it is behind a paywall and still in preprint status)
They showed the incidence of MCI (Mild cognitive impairment) and AD (Alzheimer’s disease) with the vaccinated group having much higher levels. The hazard ratio was also much higher for MCI in the vaccinated group. No difference were shown with Parkinson’s Disease or Vascular Dementia. What is very concerning here is that mild impairment is the precursor to advanced disease, and the high incidence rate of mild cognitive impairment will unfold into full blown neurodegenerative disease over the next few years. We are poised to have an epidemic of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurocognitive impairments. Guess that explains why numerous skilled nursing facilities are being built, including a massive one a mile from my home. Sad.
We have suspected and loosely known this based on patients we see…….but this is one of probably many studies that confirm the risk.
My sister was 65 years old and in excellent health. Genius IQ and photographic memory. She and her French husband (66 yo) were living down in New Caledonia and got the "jabs" so they could travel to their summer home in Tasmania. He dropped dead of a heart attack 5 months later, and she was found confused and depressed in bed with difficulty speaking. They initially thought she'd had a stroke. She spent 2 months in hospital (in Australia) and was exhibiting paranoia and confusion. They treated her as a depression with "cognitive deficits" after the MRI was normal, but after she was flown back home to Canada, she was finally diagnosed with Primary Progressive Aphasia.
It's 2 years since her husband died, and she is currently in hospital awaiting a nursing home bed because she became violent towards staff and residents at her assisted living facility. I went to visit her, and she appears to me to have full-blown fronto-temporal dementia (I'm a retired physician). She is frail and stiff with difficulty walking, paranoid and confused, can't speak or comprehend language very well, and despite medication, refuses to leave her room or socialize with people.
All within a 2 year period after getting the Covid-19 vaccine. She's currently 67 years old.
My mom is in an assisted living wing of a senior living facility. The AL has 44 apartments, and by my mom's estimation, about half of her neighbors have some form of cognitive impairment. She says some of them really belong in memory care, and one resident she noted as particularly combatant was recently moved out. Either to the memory care wing or another facility.
This place opened in 2022, so was spared much of the covid stuff, and when we toured the place in early 2023, was the only facility where masks weren't required and staff and residents were not required to have the covid shots. Mom got the first 2 (her pcp told her not to get more since she had a lot of skin issues afterwards) and is still mentally sharp, works puzzles and reads her KC Star every day. (yeah she's a D) She takes a brief cognitive test each month in order for them to let her manage her own meds. But they did offer vid boosters and flu shots in house last fall.
Mom's issues are balance and mobility, uses a walker and an electric wheelchair for longer distances, but many of her fellow residents are ambulatory, but don't know what day of the week it is. Show up in the dining room for lunch and staff tells them, 'you already had lunch'. It's sad, both for the people, and for my mom, as she has made a few friends there, but many of them you can't even have a conversation with. Imagine it's probably worse in places that do make the residents stay up to date on those shots.
And yes, these care facilities are popping up like mushrooms. My city (Lee's Summit) has one going vertical and 2 more winding through the approval process. I know some of that is demographics, boomers aging, but what happens to all these places in 10 years? Illegal aliens? Mom's didn't but many of these built in the last few years have gotten property tax abatements, and yet are a big strain on fire/ambulance resources, so the rest of us taxpayers get to pick up the $ slack on these services. Yes, my council people have heard from me. Often.