Doctors Link Pfizer, Moderna Vaccines to Life-Threatening Blood Disorder
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For the second time in under a month, The New York Times has published an article about people who developed a rare autoimmune disease after receiving COVID vaccines.
Monday’s article featured two women, both of whom were described as healthy before they received the Moderna vaccine. The women, ages 72 and 48, are now being treated for immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), a condition that develops when the immune system attacks platelets (blood component essential for clotting) or the cells that create them, according to the Times.
On Jan. 13, the Times reported on the death of Dr. Gregory Michael, a Florida doctor who died 15 days after getting the Pfizer vaccine. Michael, who was 56 and described as “perfectly healthy” by his wife, developed ITP three days after being vaccinated. He died of a brain hemorrhage on Jan. 3. As The Defender reported on Jan. 13, Dr. Jerry L. Spivak, an expert on blo
The New York Times, Dr. Kerry Kennedy Meltzer, an internal medicine resident physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, wrote that her uncle is sharing incorrect information about the vaccines now being administered across the country.
“As a doctor, and as a member of the Kennedy family, I feel I must use whatever small platform I have to state a few things unequivocally,” Kennedy Meltzer, the daughter of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the sister of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., wrote. “I love my uncle Bobby. I admire him for many reasons, chief among them his decades-long fight for a cleaner environment. But when it comes to vaccines, he is wrong.”
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I love Uncle Bobby but he s wrong : Doctor granddaughter of anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. hits out after he asked why US public is being put at risk of severe allergic reactions to shoddily-tested vaccines
Kerry Kennedy Meltzer, 29, hit out at her uncle Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 66, calling his views on the COVID-19 vaccine dangerously wrong
She works as an internal medicine resident physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and treated COVID patients at the height of the pandemic
The doctor said she loves her uncle yet when it comes to vaccines, he is wrong
She called out his recent posts highlighting the allergic reactions to the vaccine
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