Doctor tells Canadian state media that after flu season comes 'stroke season'
A Calgary-based family physician and urgent care doctor appeared on Canadian state media earlier this week to explain the alleged link between influenza, infection, and stroke. When explaining the linkage, Dr. Raj Bhardwaj of the University of Calgary note...
Never heard of stroke season?
06 February 2013 "Incidence for FES [first-ever stroke] was lowest in summer with significantly higher rates in winter" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-013-9772-4
January 1987 "Seasonal variation in the rate of strokes, with a peak in the winter-spring and a trough in the summer-autumn, has been reported in many areas, including the United States, England, Canada, Japan, and Australia." https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/epdf/10.1161/01.STR.18.1.38
Having trouble reading those links eh? The American Heart Association was lying to you in 1987? The Institute of Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany is too flaky for you?
Covid 19 vaccinations cause strokes. The Fat Boomer is admitting strokes SURGED right after the booster roll out this winter.
Strange that the fat boomer cherry picked a 1987 German study but is choosing to leave these out.
1 - Stroke Associated with COVID-19 Vaccines: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35339857/
Results: Most stroke patients are women 59 and younger years of age and who had received Covid 19 vaccine. Most studies reported stokes with or without secondary ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke, and some with Vaccine-induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia (VITT). The most common clinical symptom of strokes seen after COVID-19 vaccination was headache. The clinical course of strokes after COVID-19 vaccination may be more severe than strokes not associated with COVID vaccination. Management of CVST following COVID-19 vaccination is challenging and may differ from the standard treatment of strokes. Low molecular weight heparin is commonly used in the treatment of CVST; however, it may worsen outcomes in CVST associated with VITT. Furthermore, administration of intravenous immunoglobulin and high-dose glucocorticoids have been recommended with various success rates.
Conclusion: These contradictory observations are a source of confusion in clinical decision-making and warrant further study and development of clinical guidelines. Clinicians should be aware of clinical presentation, diagnosis, and management of stroke associated with COVID-19 vaccination.
2 - Acute ischemic stroke and vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia post COVID-19 vaccination; a systematic review
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35752132/
1 - Folks, none of that changes the fact that "stroke season" - which OP had apparently never heard of - has been recognized for decades.
2 - V&C1's link is not news. It's about how certain women can get blood clots from the AstraZeneca vaccine. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35339857/ That shouldn't be news to anyone who has been paying attention.
3 - But that's not good enough for V&C1. She has to "improve" the study so it fits her narrative. She writes:
But the actual quote is "Most of such patients are women under 60 years of age and who had received ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine." ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine is AstraZeneca https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2113864. Singling out AstraZeneca for the caution did not suit her, so all on her own she applied the study's results to all vaccines.
She lies to you folks.
If you are a woman under 60 get one of the other vaccines.
4 - V&C1 includes the conclusion of her first link: "These contradictory observations are a source of confusion in clinical decision-making and warrant further study and development of clinical guidelines." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35339857/, but she does not use the conclusion of the full version of it: "Most of the evidence pertaining to stroke following COVID-19 vaccination are case reports, therefore, the incidence of stroke after COVID-19 vaccination is not precisely known." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8894799/
And that's an important point. Compared to the number of people who have died from the virus - 6.7 million and still climbing https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/ - injuries from the vaccines are vanishingly small. In the US roughly one person in 300 has died from the virus (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries). Injuries - any injury, not just fatalities - from vaccines are a handful in a million: https://www.nebraskamed.com/COVID/you-asked-we-answered-do-the-covid-19-vaccines-cause-blood-clots-or-heart-problems
5 - Similar testimony about how rare vaccine injuries are is provided in her second link: "AIS [Acute Ischemic Stroke] has been reported as a rare complication within 4 weeks post COVID-19 vaccination, particularly with viral vector vaccines." Viral vector vaccines in Canada are AstraZeneca and Johnson&Johnson. https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/covid19-industry/drugs-vaccines-treatments/vaccines/type-viral-vector.html
As we all know V&C1 is deeply fearful of the virus and half-crazed by the fact that her safety isn't 100% guaranteed. She doesn't do well with global pandemics.