[ExI] Covid Vaccines

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2021 at 18:25, Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> The Covid mRNA vaccines were designed to be delivered in an
> intramuscular manner. In mice, the injection of Covid vaccine
> intravenously instead of intramuscularly causes acute myopericarditis.
> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8436386/
>
> Which is apparently also a risk in humans also.
> https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/myocarditis.html
>
> The skill of the person administering the injection comes into play
> here. The vaccine seems safe if used as intended but less so if . . .
> abused.


For some intramuscular injections it has been customary to pull back on the
plunger before injecting to ensure that you are not in a blood vessel, but
it has been shown in studies that this is unnecessary in the common
injection sites and it is not done for vaccinations.

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Stathis Papaioannou
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