Deans' stroke musings: Study found long-term brain damage associated with COVID-19, not vaccine

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Study found long-term brain damage associated with COVID-19, not vaccine | Fact check by USA Todaay

In case you are getting bamboozled by vaccine claims. I'm much more worried about brain damage from COVID-19 than the vaccine. I already have enough brain damage, I'm preventing more.

Study found long-term brain damage associated with COVID-19, not vaccine | Fact check

A May 12 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a screenshot of a now-deleted tweet.

"BREAKING: A European study has found COVID vaccines could be causing 'long-term brain damage,'" reads the tweet.

The post garnered more than 200 likes in five days. Similar versions of the claim have been shared on Instagram and Twitter.

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Our rating: False

The study explored the long-term neurological effects of being infected with the COVID-19 virus, not the vaccine.

Study focuses on virus, not vaccine

The viral claim appears to stem from a May 9 article published by The People's Voice, formerly known as NewsPunch. The website has a lengthy history of publishing misinformation.

The article references a pre-print study published in April that explored the long-term neurological effects observed in those who had been infected with COVID-19. It claims the study revealed that "spike proteins from mRNA jabs infest the brain tissue of vaccinated people."

But Dr. Ali Ertürk, a co-author of the paper and director of the Institute of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine in Munich, told USA TODAY the study did not examine the COVID-19 vaccine of its side effects.

"We have done zero experiments using the vaccine, and we have shown and claim zero side effects of the vaccine," said Ertürk in an email. "Our work reports the presence of the spike protein in the skull of deceased individuals long after their COVID-19 infection, suggesting that the spike's persistence may contribute to long-term neurological symptoms."

Fact check: FDA still recommends COVID-19 vaccine, contrary to viral claim

None of the COVID-19 vaccines authorized in the U.S. contain the live virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Instead, the mRNA in the vaccine teaches the body's cells to make copies of the COVID-19 spike protein so they can later recognize and fight off the virus if they become infected.

"The issue is that during infection, there is an enormous amount of viral replication and spike protein production, which impacts many organs including the brain," Ertürk said.

The COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective, according to the CDC.

USA TODAY reached out to the users who shared the post for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

The claim has also been debunked by the Associated Press and PolitiFact.