(Just The News)—As the federal government yanks taxpayer money from mRNA vaccine development and finally convenes a vaccine safety task force after decades of allegedly flouting the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, stronger evidence has emerged that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines actually increase the risk of respiratory infections with each dose.
The study of 1,745 Swiss healthcare workers over several months in 2023 and 2024, published this month in the peer-reviewed Nature publication Communications Medicine, adds support to Cleveland Clinic research from 2022 on 51,000 employees that unexpectedly found “association of increased risk of COVID-19 with higher numbers of prior [mRNA] vaccine doses.”
Those who recently got a COVID booster “were more likely to report symptoms” of influenza-like illnesses and take sick leave, while those who got seasonal flu vaccines were less likely to do so, according to the SURPRISE+ Study Group, a research collaborative that studies health outcomes in healthcare workers. (COVID testing had been phased out by then.)
“These findings suggest that COVID-19 boosters may not offer clear short-term benefits in a post-pandemic setting, and may even increase short-term illness risk,” the study says, cautioning that routinely boosting this low-risk group of “young to middle-aged, healthy individuals” may not clear a risk-benefit threshold.
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