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Following the availability and use of the updated (bivalent) COVID-19 vaccines, CDC’s Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), a near real-time surveillance system, met the statistical criteria to prompt additional investigation into whether there was a safety concern for ischemic stroke in people ages 65 and older who received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Bivalent. Rapid-response investigation of the signal in the VSD raised a question of whether people 65 and older who have received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Bivalent were more likely to have an ischemic stroke in the 21 days following vaccination compared with days 22-44 following vaccination.
An ischemic stroke occurs when a blood vessel supplying the brain becomes blocked, as by a clot. A hemorrhagic stroke occurs when a blood vessel bursts, leaking blood into the brain.
originally posted by: DISRAELI
a reply to: Ophiuchus1
The text doesn't actually tell us how likely an ischemic stroke is in general. Just that if such a stroke is going to happen at all, it will happen twice as quickly with older people.
I'm in that age-group, but my vaccination was two years ago, so I seem to have escaped the couple-of-months time frame.
originally posted by: mysterioustranger
a reply to: Ophiuchus1
I'm 70, have COVID now, both Pfizers n booster...was sick...heart condition too...still here.
Oh, and stroke in 2005. Still here...
*Jesus👍