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Did Tom Shimabukuro Say COVID Vaccines Were Causing Debilitating Illnesses?

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Why do some people think that Tom Shimabukuro, the Director of the CDC Vaccine Task Force, say that COVID vaccines were causing debilitating illnesses?

In case you forgot – anti-vaccine influencers like Esai Morales, Robert Malone, and TexasLindsay are still pushing misinformation and propaganda about COVID vaccines.

The usual suspects…

Did Tom Shimabukuro Say COVID Vaccines Were Causing Debilitating Illnesses?

Of course, Tom Shimabukuro didn’t actually say that at the 178th Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) meeting on 1/26/2023?

So what did he say?

Tom Shimabukuro, who was the Deputy Director for the Immunization Safety Office in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, actually said that:

“We take vaccine safety very seriously. With respect to reports of people experiencing debilitating illnesses, I mean, we are, we are aware of these reports of people experiencing long lasting health problems following COVID vaccination. In some cases, the clinical presentations of people suffering these health problems is variable and no specific medical cause for the symptoms have been found. We understand that illnesses are disruptive and stressful, especially under those circumstances. We acknowledge these health problems have substantially impacted the quality of life for people and have also affected those around them. And we hope for improvement and recovery. We will continue to monitor the safety of these vaccines and work with partners to try and better understand these types of adverse events.”

Tom Shimabukuro

So no, he didn’t admit that “COVID vaccines were causing debilitating illnesses.”

He simply said that he was aware of reports of debilitating illnesses and they were investigating possible causes.

Wait, what kind of reports?

They were likely VAERS reports, which are not evidence that a vaccine caused the condition in the report! Remember, VAERS is a passive reporting system.

“COVID-19 Vaccines Have Been Evaluated Under the Most
Extensive Safety Monitoring Program in U.S. History”

Update on CDC’s COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Monitoring

And what was the outcome of these investigations?

Many studies have been done and they have mostly linked long-COVID to folks who were unvaccinated. In fact, getting vaccinated and protected seems to be protective against long-COVID!

But is it possible to develop long-COVID symptoms after being vaccinated?

There have been rare case reports describing a rare link between long-COVID-like illnesses in those who had gotten a COVID vaccine.

“Cases seem very rare—far less common than Long Covid after infection.”

Rare link between coronavirus vaccines and Long Covid–like illness starts to gain acceptance

But understand that the overwhelming evidence points to long-COVID being caused by a natural COVID infection and towards COVID vaccines being protective against long COVID.

Not towards it being a vaccine injury.

Peter McCullough wants you to think that long COVID is caused by retained spike proteins so that he can sell his spike detox supplements.

What else, despite what anti-vaccine influencers claim, there is no evidence that spike proteins stick around in our blood after we are vaccinated for long periods of time. That they do is simply a misrepresentation of a study that found ‘peptides,’ or a part of the spike protein in some patients.

And yet again, we see anti-vaccine influencers creating propaganda to try to mislead folks into skipping or delay getting vaccinated and protected.

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