A vial of Comirnaty, Pfizer’s vaccine, in Milan on April 19. – Nicola Marfisi / AGF / SIPA
- Didier Raoult argued in a video published Wednesday that there are 70% side effects with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The professor explains that he relies on work from the prestigious journal Nature.
- These 70% correspond in fact to a pain felt by the vaccinated persons at the site of the injection.
A spectacular figure, but one that hides a much less frightening reality. In a video published on Wednesday, Didier Raoult argues that there is “70% side effects” with the Pfizer / BioNTech coronavirus vaccine. The leader of the IHU Méditerranée declares that he relies on recent work by the prestigious scientific journal Nature, but does not detail what these side effects are.
The IHU tells us that Didier Raoult quotes an article published on February 16 in the American review.
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So, what do these 70% of side effects cited by? Nature ? Has pain felt by vaccinees at the site of the bite. A sensation and a moment which can of course be unpleasant, but which does not call into question the benefit of the vaccine compared to the risk incurred by contracting Covid-19.
Nature
relies on data by Tom Shimabukuro, a researcher with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), dated Jan. 14. Of nearly a million people who participated in this research, 67.7% reported “pain” after the first dose of Pfizer-Moderna vaccine and 74.8% after the second dose. The trend
is confirmed by additional data, published in March. In addition, 26% reported headaches after the first dose and 42% after the second.
“Overall, the safety profiles of Covid-19 vaccines [Pfizer/BioNTech et Moderna] are reassuring and consistent with those observed in clinical trials, ”notes the CDC researcher.
In clinical trials, 77.4% of participants who kept a symptom diary seven days after vaccination reported at least one side effect. The majority were “of mild or moderate severity”, underline the CDC.