Japanese TV gently touches on post-vaccine injuries
As well as presenting a few critical opinions toward the Covid vaccines, Japanese TV also recently touched on the touchy subject of post-vaccine syndrome (PVS). The full segment lasts 13 minutes and covers the topic of childhood vaccination [1], but I’ll mainly look at the how the segment handled PVS. But I recommend watching the first 3 minutes to see the physical problems the PVS patients are suffering.
The first case presented was a 21-year old university student suffering from involuntary movements caused by inflammation of the brain. His condition started the night after he took the first vaccine in June 2021.
Next is a 14-year-old girl who hasn’t been able to attend school since October 2021 because she lost the ability to walk more than short distances. Her condition started 6 hours after she took the first vaccine. Her parents say her conversations have become slower too.
Dr Kazehiro Nagao (incidentally one of Japan’s foremost advocates of ivermectin to treat Covid) says he’s seen over 80 patients suffering from PVS. Milder symptoms include headaches, dizziness, nausea, palpitations, and numbness, with more severe symptoms being impaired walking and memory.
Dr Nagao explains that PVS is distinguished from common side-effects by lasting several months and thinks it is due to an abnormal immune system response.
However, the national government doesn’t recognise PVS. [What a surprise!]
Dr Nagao says that wherever the patients go, they’re told “Causality is unclear because you can’t prove it was the vaccine.”
The segment even mentions that 6631 post-vaccine deaths, severe reactions, and hospitalisations have been reported up till 18th March in Japan.
But of course our friends at the Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare (MHLW) say that “Due to insufficient information, the causal relationship with the vaccines has not been clarified.” [I’d have thought the information was more than sufficient at this point.]
However, even though the MHLW refuses to recognise PVS, it assumes there will be people claiming to suffer from long-lasting symptoms and has requested prefectural governments to enable such people to be quickly examined. [Yes, the MHLW is recommending examinations for people suffering from a condition the MHLW doesn’t actually recognise. You weren’t expecting a logical response, were you?]
The segment then interviews Prof Itsuto Kazama of Miyagi University, who has researched Covid vaccine side effects. He starts with the throat-clearing statement that the criteria for PVS haven’t been completely clarified.
But it is mentioned that Covid vaccine side-effects and PVS are thought to be possibly related to inflammation or allergic reactions caused by the secretion of cytokines after vaccination.
Prof Kazama also mentions that such immune system reactions may be higher in young people and calls for more data to be collected. [Er, isn’t that what clinical trials are supposed to be for?]
So there you go. Not exactly ground-breaking journalism, but probably more honest than almost anything else in the mainstream media.
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