Prophet and Vaccine

Were church leaders inspired in their guidance on COVID-19?

What are some of the causes of frustration among Latter-day Saints over these issues?

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YouTube narration:

Resources

Vaccine safety:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2790957

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9552389/

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/13/cdc-fda-pfizer-bivalent-vaccine-possible-strokes-00077933

https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/19/health/routine-surgery-complications/index.html

Risk of death following COVID-19 vaccination or positive SARS-CoV-2 test in young people, England: 8 December 2020 to 25 May 2022

Risk of myocarditis and pericarditis after the COVID-19 mRNA vaccination in the USA: a cohort study in claims databases

I saw a post today saying myocarditis deaths were blowing up in the US.

Myocarditis is a very rare cause of death in the US. 2019, it accounted for 0.02% of all deaths in US.

In 2020 myocarditis death rate jumped 9.9%
DROPPED 10.3% in 2021
Dropped 8% in 2022 pic.twitter.com/wd4okIVi13

— Truth In Numbers (Daniel) (@Truth_in_Number) August 10, 2023

Jessica Rose and @P_McculloughMD have again tried to fearmonger about myocarditis in the absence of sufficient scientific justification. https://t.co/yQ3DUxkvMS

The basic methodology of their paper was to compare rates of adverse event reporting in the era of COVID vaccines… pic.twitter.com/iDC6t2qOZp

— Frank Han MD ????????Pediatric/ACHD/GUCH Cardiologist (@han_francis) January 28, 2024

Vaccine effectiveness:

Study Confirms Benefits of COVID-19 Vaccines, Shows Effectiveness Wanes Over Time

COVID cases have plummeted as more people get vaccinated

Evaluation of Waning of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine–Induced Immunity

Two Years of U.S. COVID-19 Vaccines Have Prevented Millions of Hospitalizations and Deaths

The Impact of Vaccination on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreaks in the United States

One-Year Adverse Outcomes Among US Adults With Post–COVID-19 Condition vs Those Without COVID-19 in a Large Commercial Insurance Database

On incentives to overreport due to COVID hospital payments:

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-covid-pandemic-hospitals-medicare-157398144949

On pharmaceutical companies’ corruption of the medical scientific establishment:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2872821/#:~:text=In%20recent%20years%2C%20a%20number,drug%20trials%20in%20various%20ways.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/03/06/transgender-activism-pharmaceutical-studies-children/

The Latter-day Saint Experience of COVID:

COVID-19 Vaccination as an Abrahamic Test

Covid Peacemaking for Latter-day Saint Families