Vaccinations for COVID-19 may increase the risk of brain clots and strokes in older people, according to an analysis of Medicare data by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The risk increases if the vaccine is administered on the same day as a high-dose or adjuvanted flu shot.
This is the second study to have discovered a possible link between strokes and Covid and flu vaccinations, though the medical establishment currently insists the risks are small.
“The absolute risk is minuscule,” claims Cleveland Clinic cardiologist Dr. Steve Nissen, especially “in comparison to the risk for people over 85 of dying from Covid.”
FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research chief Dr. Peter Marks has said he is planning to space out his Covid and flu vaccinations, however, waiting about a fortnight between the two shots.
“If you want to minimize the chance of interactions and minimize confusing the side effects from one with another, you wait about two weeks between the vaccines,” he told FDA stakeholders in September.
Another FDA investigation has found what is claimed to be an uncertain link between COVID-19 vaccinations and seizures in children aged two to five.