A Feb. 20 WorldNetDaily article by Bob Unruh is filled with misleading claims:
A new study has tied the shots that were developed, almost overnight, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that apparently came out of a Chinese lab researching how to make bat viruses more threatening to multiple major complications.
Including heart and brain ailments.
A report at the IBTimes said the research was done by the Global Vaccine Data Network in New Zealand and documented the outcomes for 99 million people who were given the shots.
Already, there have been previous studies tying the shots to various complicated and serious medical side effects including blood clots and myocarditis, an ailment of the heart muscle.
Now the new study has confirmed that “the shots from pharma giants including Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca have been associated with rare occurrences of heart, brain, and blood disorders.”
[…]Found in increased numbers were cases of myocarditis, which includes an inflammation of the heart muscle, after doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s and Moderna’s mRNA shots.
What Unruh refused to tell his readers: The risk is only slightly higher than normal, and the side effects remain rare. As one doctor commented:
Dr. Jacob Glanville, CEO of Centivax, a San Francisco biotechnology company, also reacted to the study’s findings.
“This study is confirming in a much larger cohort what has been previously identified in the original studies during the pandemic — myocarditis and pericarditis as a rare side effect of mRNA vaccines and clots as a rare side effect of the viral vectored vaccines,” he told Fox News Digital.
“The odds of all of these adverse events are still much, much higher when infected with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), so getting vaccinated is still by far the safer choice.”
Another doctor reiterated that point:
But Dr. David Goodfriend, director of the Loudoun County Health Department, said while all vaccines come with some risk of adverse reaction, in this case, all of the increases may not be because of the vaccinations.
“COVID itself can cause the same infection,” said Goodfriend. “It’s hard to know if it’s the vaccine that’s resulting in an increased level of this, or it was just that we were having COVID.”
Goodfriend said studies have also consistently shown the benefits of the COVID vaccines are higher than the potential risks.
Because Unruh is a stenographer and not a reporter, he’s content to regurgitate claims from highly biased anti-vaxxer websites rather than do the actual journalistic work of gathering all relevant information and tell readers the truth instead of his employer’s dishonest narrative. After all, deliberately misrepresenting the results of COVID-related studies is what WND does.