> I know several people who have been hospitalized immediately after getting the Pfizer shot.
The first or second shot? Can you elaborate on what the complication was? Did you know them directly or know of them (like via someone else telling you about them)
1. My next door neighbor, a healthy 80 year old and good friend, took the first shot as soon as he was able to. Within hours he had to be rushed to the hospital where he was in ER for five days.
He returned home and called it a fluke. A month later he got the second shot, but stayed at the medical center for watching. Good thing too, since he soon passed out and was in the hospital for a week (though not ER).
He has decided to skip the third shot. He never had Corona.
2. Four buildings away, a story with a thirty-something year old man. Someone I have met but do not know him well.
Took the first shot and was immediately hospitalized.
3. The father of a friend who lives on the other side of town. Never met the father, but am friends with his son and believe he did not make up the story.
4. The aforementioned nurse's mother - I know her family very well, and have met the mother at least once a few years ago.
Real people. I know that I am just a person on the internet and there is no way I can prove it without giving actual names (and even that might not help). But try looking for a community that has close connections with their parents (NY or Miami) and I am sure you will find plenty of similar cases.
I have extended family, my girlfriend has extended family (we would have to make 250 person wedding to invite them all, but my mother has contacts with even more people) and no one we know had any complications apart from a mild two-day fever. Some of them had covid and some were hospitalized, but no one after vaccine. Also we don't know of anyone who had any covid symptoms after vaccine.
That's just anecdotal. (My grand-parents, parents, friends took Pfizer/Moderna and there was nothing beyond the regular symptoms; and my grand-parents are in a bad shape).
There are stats about the side-effects of the vaccine, I think we better stick to those.
The first or second shot? Can you elaborate on what the complication was? Did you know them directly or know of them (like via someone else telling you about them)