Every person has the right
your own opinion, but not
to your own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Prominent politician, senator,
sociologist and diplomat
North American (1927-2003)
The covid-19 pandemic lasted 1,150 days, between 2020 and 2023. Despite its impact, we cyclically witness the repetition of the same mistaken and manipulated narratives, based on false or decontextualized information, which call into question, for example, the existence of the virus, the scientific validity of the procedures and their repercussions. This pandemic revisionism is extremely dangerous, as it minimizes and devalues everything that has been done, namely the tens of millions of lives saved, and by compromising learning and preparation for similar future events.
One of the most attacked areas is vaccination against Covid-19, the measure that saved the most lives and was decisive in ending the pandemic. Many of the attacks are based on records of adverse events in pharmacovigilance databases. Anyone can voluntarily notify an event, and this notification is a regulatory obligation for the pharmaceutical industry. In European Union countries, this surveillance is carried out by highly qualified specialists who are equally responsible for monitoring the safety of all other medicines.
Registration does not presuppose the existence of a causal relationship. It is expected that the same events will occur in those vaccinated that already occurred, with equal frequency, before vaccination. For example, accidents, other illnesses, hospitalizations or, unfortunately, deaths. These are events that have always happened and will continue to happen, especially since around 95% of Portuguese people have been vaccinated.
It is wrong to think that someone without specific training can discover, in a few minutes, something that countless experts and scientists with years of experience have not identified. Are the approximately 50 scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden responsible for awarding the Nobel Prize in Medicine to the mRNA technology used in vaccines against Covid-19 ignorant or incompetent?
Despite the hundreds of robust studies that prove the safety of vaccines, there is other data that, due to their scope, corroborates the same conclusion. This is the case of the report 10 Years of Brain and Cardiovascular Diseases in Portugal (2013-2023), released last month by the Directorate-General for Health, which confirms a significant reduction in mortality from these diseases, with the proportion of deaths reaching, in 2023, the lowest value in the last 30 years.
This is further evidence of the lack of a relationship between vaccination and the increase in cardiovascular diseases and, above all, a demonstration that anyone who claims otherwise is not a reliable source of information nor does it deserve trust.
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