World's largest study in COVID vaccine side-effects | ABC News

The results come from the

world

's

largest

study

on the

side

effects

of

covid

vaccine

s. The

study

involved almost 100 million people from eight countries. For more information, we're joined by RN Health Report host Dr. Norman Norman, it's great to see you again. Now, what have we learned from this long-awaited study? Well, he only alluded to the scope of it. 99 million people. 183 million doses of

vaccine

s analyzing Astra Mna and fisa and they have done it in eight countries with very reliable data. places like Australia New Zealand Canada Denmark Finland um and the results show that first of all, the

side

effects

that they didn't expect were discovered and they appeared as a sign.

All the side effects were weird and it takes a little time. a little bit just to explain the data, because what they were doing was saying, look what is the base rate of these problems in the community and what is the increase above the base R, how many cases would we have expected over this period of time in this group of people and then how many cases appeared and what they showed was that they were rare, so they started and only picked for significant side effects if they were sure they were side effects, which is why there has been talk of Gon Barry syndrome.

You and I have talked a lot about the virus on the

news

channel, and so this is an ascending paralysis of the body, a little bit like, well, it's not really like multiple sclerosis, but it affects the nervous system, usually . For most people it is a temporary phenomenon, although it can be quite serious at the time. gon bar seems to only be a problem with the Astro vaccine, rare but only with the Astro vaccine, not the mRNA vaccines, myocarditis, pericarditis, inflammation of the heart which has been shown to be a significant side effect um and no surprises with the vaccines of mRNA, then there was a side effect called acute disseminated enom myelitis, so this is essentially a brain inflammation that is usually seen in children, but in this case, in older people, mostly they are between 20 and 60 years old, um and again in most people it's self-limiting, but it can be quite unpleasant, but to give you an idea of ​​how, it was only with the modna vaccine that they didn't see it with fizer and they didn't see it with Astra, so out of 10 million dose of Astro 1 million well, I think so, 10 million doses of Mna.

I have to say that they expected to see two cases in that population of this brain inflammation and they saw seven, so you can see how rare it is, but it needs more research, of that cohort of 99 million participants that were the subject of this study, how many people Did they have side effects? I've been asked this question before in terms of how many people if you just take away the brain inflammation, yes. of 99 million people, seven because this was, I mean, everything, yes, but the thing about the side effects is that a lot of people around the

world

were wondering what would happen if I was one of the seven, but the proportionality is really very important here, that's right.

It's very rare, but it exists and it's about transparency so you know what the risks are and this would be like winning the biggest lot, three times in your life, something like that, as we mentioned, this was eight countries, it was a reach. How much can that be extrapolated to the rest of the world's population that receives these vaccines? It's a good question because you might get different genetic susceptibilities in different populations, but um, uh, in terms of a representative population of Australia, um. you know, in particular, Canada was very involved, it's a very similar population to Australia.

I think Australians can understand that, from their point of view, it gives them a good understanding of the risk of side effects. I want to move on now to another study, this time on a type of blood fat blood fat that has been linked to heart disease and stroke tell me that we all know about cholesterol and if you have thought about cholesterol you will have heard of that there is good cholesterol and bad cholesterol, right, the bad cholesterol is called LDL and uh that is the goal they aim for to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke, etc.

It has long been known that on this side there is another fat in the blood, it is not part of cholesterol, separate blood fat and is called small lipoprotein. a UC is a little on the side as experts describe it and it's been known for a while that LP slightly increases the risk of heart attack and stroke, but cardiologists have been trying to find all sorts of reasons why it doesn't. They should measure it, one of the reasons is that they do not have effective treatments for it. It turns out that it's getting stronger and stronger that LP little a is a strong risk factor for heart attacks and strokes on its own. correct and we should measure it in people who are high risk because there are ways to reduce it and reduce the risk and there are new treatments on the horizon and it is as potent in terms of heart attack and stroke as LDL cholesterol.

How can you exercise whether you are high risk or not? You get a simple blood test. Problems that easy. Yes, it's that easy. The problem is that it is not refundable at this time, so it will cost you between $25 and $50, right Norman? great to chat with you thank you very much for coming for nothing