Overton’s window when it comes to COVID-19 vaccine injuries is evolving. The once-detailed concept that vaccines in the past were considered the safest and most effective in medical history may simply inflict serious harm on some recipients, a concept long discarded. Criticised in the press, it has gained acceptance in recent weeks. Members of the mainstream media, or more particularly the liberal media, began to speak on the issue without a tone of condescension or condemnation.
Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, who spent much of the pandemic era serving as the self-proclaimed rottweiler of the public fitness establishment, recently produced a segment on his NewsNation show that sympathetically featured a nurse practitioner who claimed to have experienced life-changing side effects after being restless. through his employer to receive a second COVID shot even though he reported neurological symptoms after its premiere. Cuomo, in the segment, also alluded to the fact that he himself had been injured by a vaccine and under pressure wanted to figure out how to help those suffering from vaccine injuries.
Earlier this month, the New York Times published an article through Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Apoorva Mandavilli, detailing the stories of several other people with clinical and medical expertise, all of whom claim to have been seriously injured because of Covid vaccines.
In addition, the article covered some of the hurdles faced by Americans seeking compensation. Medical records in the United States are not centralized. This makes it more complicated to identify the rare but serious side effects of COVID vaccines. Therefore, only a few side effects are shown. In addition, there are only 35 other people tasked with evaluating the approximately 13,000 claims filed for COVID vaccine injuries and determining whether they meet the strict procedural and eligibility requirements necessary to obtain a maximum payout of $50,000.
The overall tone of the article suggests that those injured by the vaccine deserve compassion and to be taken seriously, while the obstacles discussed above are issues that need to be addressed.
In October 2023, Mandavilli, who during the pandemic warned about the potential risks of reopening schools and tweeted how racist the speculation about lab leak was, was still reassuring people that mild to moderate side effects from Covid vaccines were a smart thing to do. With that in mind, his update is even more remarkable than Cuomo’s.
However, it remains to be understood what this COVID vaccine harm policy update means. Perhaps all the work done by skeptical journalists, doctors, scientists, and activists has convinced others like Cuomo that the stories of those who claim to have been harmed through Covid vaccines are heard. Perhaps his paintings have allowed media outlets like the New York Times to treat the issue of COVID vaccine harm as acceptable.
Perhaps enough time has passed since the height of the COVID pandemic to allow others today to more objectively evaluate a position that a couple of years ago was a matter of personal and political identity, similar to the question of whether there were mass guns. destruction in Iraq some twenty years ago.
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Or maybe other presenters and media simply know that their audience has replaced and have calculated that they deserve it too. A November 2023 Rasmussen poll indicated that 24% of U. S. adults personally know someone who has died from COVID vaccine side effects. On May 10, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that only 22. 5% of adults had received their updated 2023-24 COVID-19 vaccine.
There is possibly no single answer, let alone one that applies similarly to each and every user and each and every point of sale. We may never know. On the other hand, we might find out who is honest in their change of tone if the government tries to make bird flu vaccines mandatory.
Daniel Nuccio has a Ph. D. , is a biology student, and collaborates with Fix College and the Brownstone Institute.