It's not that common, but it has long been known that a small number of people faint after an injection. It is a panic reaction. Your blood pressure goes up out of fear, and then it drops afterwards, leading to a faint.
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Replying to @JamesHeartfield @naomirwolf
It’s actually fairly common, as phlebotomists and docs and nurses who give a lot of vaccines and injections will tell you. Certainly I’d not uncommon.
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"Fairly common" is quite subjective. CDC says less than 4 percent of people will experience syncope in their lifetimes. In what percentage of patients do you see fainting from shots?
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Here’s a response. Just for the sake of argument, let’s say it’s only one in a thousand people who faints after a shot. After a quarter billion doses of vaccine, how many syncopal episodes would we expect to see, then? 250,000! If it’s higher, say 1%, we’re talking 2.5 million.
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The law of large numbers tells us that even an event that only occurs a small percentage of the time after, say, vaccination will still produce large numbers of occurrences when massive numbers are vaccinated.
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