A study reports three cases of immune-mediated demyelination of the brain and spinal cord in patients who had recently received a COVID-19 vaccine, "likely" linking the two.
"We found a 1200-fold increase in severe menstrual abnormalities, a 57-fold increase in miscarriage, a 38-fold increase in fetal death or stillbirth rates," says Dr. Thorp.
"The most frequent psychiatric manifestations are behavioral or personality/mood changes, ranging from irritability or agitation to severe anxiety, depression, and full-blown psychosis with abnormal thought processes and hallucinations," the study authors write.
"To our knowledge, our study is the first to detect Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccine sequences in blood after vaccination, and therefore provides new knowledge regarding the timeframe in which the mRNA can be detected," the study authors write.