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Yale scientists who risked careers to disclose negative Covid vaccine study say more is coming

February 22, 2025 | | Print Article

Yale scientists have discovered a rare syndrome linked to the COVID vaccines while Chinese researchers have discovered a new bat coronavirus similar to COVID.

Known as “post-vaccination syndrome” (PVS), the condition discovered by Yale University immunologist Akiko Iwasaki and her team causes symptoms such as fatigue, exercise intolerance, brain fog, tinnitus and dizziness, according to a study published in medRxiv.

In a statement to the Daily Mail, Iwasaki promised that more research is on the way.

“For patients who are suffering from post-vaccination syndrome, we want them to know that we see you, we listen, and we will keep on doing more research in this area so that this condition can be recognized, and better medical care can be provided,” she said.

“People with PVS have felt dismissed and ignored because PVS is not a medically recognized condition. I believe that rigorous scientific research will lead to better diagnosis, treatment and prevention of PVS. Such research will also lead to better transparency and safer vaccines,” she added.

But in a separate statement to The New York Times, she somewhat downplayed her current findings.

“I want to emphasize that this is still a work in progress,” she said. “It’s not like this study determined what’s making people sick. But it’s the first kind of glimpse at what may be going on within these people.”

It’s in fact an extremely important “first glimpse” because for years those who experienced negative side effects from the COVID-19 vaccine have been labeled kooks and conspiracy theorists, even when they were perfectly normal, vaccine-friendly Americans.

Take Kari Ponce de Leon, a 43-year-old Montana mother who suffered dangerous, life-threatening blood conditions after receiving the Pfizer vaccine in February of 2021.

“I thought that I was doing the right thing,” she told the Daily Mail. “I’ve never had a problem before. I’ve had all the vaccines that I can. My kids are vaccinated. I believe in vaccines.”

Yet two days after she was vaccinated, red spots began to appear all over her hands, and her nose began bleeding nonstop.

“Doctors diagnosed Mrs. Ponce de Leon with a series of blood conditions that caused her immune system to block platelets,” the Daily Mail notes. “Platelets are essential for blood to clot and for wounds to heal, so having too few could lead to uncontrolled, deadly bleeding.”

“After months of infusions to get her platelets back to normal, Mrs Ponce de Leon was rushed to the University of Washington in 2022. Doctors replaced all of her plasma with donor plasma where doctors performed plasmapheresis, a procedure that removes all of the plasma from blood and replaces it with donor plasma,” the Daily Mail’s reporting continues.

COVID vaccine victims weren’t the only ones accused of being conspiracy theorists. So were those who rightly claimed that COVID had originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

Meanwhile years later, a new bat coronavirus that spreads similarly to COVID has reportedly just been discovered by the same batch of scientists at the laboratory.

“A newly discovered bat coronavirus uses the same cell-surface protein to gain entry into human cells as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, raising the possibility that it could someday spread to humans,” according to Reuters.

The good news, according to Dr. Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota, is that there’s already so much coronavirus immunity in America that most people will be just fine.

Plus, Iwasaki’s team found that this new coronavirus binds to human cells much less successfully than COVID.

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