United States: The state of Florida’s Department of Health has allegedly put out new guidance that has advised hospitals and other healthcare facilities to discourage high-risk patients from taking COVID-19 vaccines developed with mRNA technology.
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The state Health Department issued concerns linked to mRNA vaccines that these have side effects that include myocarditis and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome or POTS, which are both rare heart diseases.
This is quite contrary to what federal health agencies have given as direction as they continue to promote mRNA vaccines and still regard them as safe and effective for anyone who is eligible.
What more are the experts stating?
At the beginning of June, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States recommended using the new 2024 and 2025 COVID-19 vaccines in people with a six-month-old child, benzinga.com reported.
In August, the FDA provided emergency use authorization for the newer mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna Inc. and Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE for the Omicron variant referred to as KP.2 strain.
NBC News noted that the state’s health department has recommended that the elderly, immunocompromised, and others get other vaccines and remedies rather than the mRNA ones.
Earlier this month, the FDA granted Emergency Use Authorization or EUA to Novavax Inc.’s protein-based COVID-19 vaccine NVX-CoV2705 (2024-2025 Formula) for use in active immunization for COVID-19 in individuals aged 12 years and above.
State guidance for them stresses that their high immunity from previous infections, coupled with current information, supports them.
Risks linked with mRNA vaccines
The report also noted that there is a rarely documented risk of myocarditis associated with the mRNA vaccines. Although it is rare, especially in young men, research now indicates most of the cases are mild, benzinga.com reported.
A peer-reviewed Nature Cardiovascular Research study suggested that Covid patients are five times more likely to get POTS than those getting vaccinated with mRNA vaccines, thus emphasizing the need to get vaccinated.
Cambridge, Bristol, and Edinburgh universities noted that COVID-19 vaccinations may obtain dramatic reductions of arterial thromboses responsible for heart attacks and strokes.