I believe that COVID MRNA vaccines are safe and effective in terms of preventing severe COVID. Here at Unemployed Professors, opinions differ amongst professors, and we have all written many custom essays about COVID and its implications on the economy. I have written so many custom essays about COVID-19 that I have lost count. Regardless, and as I prepare for my booster dose, I am wondering about one thing. Aspiration! What is aspiration? It is the process by which, during an intramuscular vaccination, the person administering the vaccine will pull back on the plunger of the syringe to ensure that they are not in a blood vessel. I am not going to cite studies here but, if you are interested in a more detailed discussion of this, please visit Dr. John Cambpell’s YouTube channel as he discusses this extensively with more expertise than I have. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgVsd6qoyU4
Simply put, the idea is this – if you accidentally inject an MRNA vaccina into a blood vessel, it increases the risk of myocarditis associated with the vaccine. This is just a hypothesis for right now but it seems that countries which aspirate intramuscular vaccines have lower rates of this heart inflammation than countries which do not. This is correlation rather than causation, but it is something that we should pay attention to. The guidelines put forth by the American Center for Disease Control and Prevention explicitly prohibit aspiration when administering an intramuscular injection for COVID-19. They state that this is because aspirating could cause the patient more pain and discomfort.
This makes no sense to me. I’ve had vaccines that have been aspirated and vaccines that have not been. It’s the skill of the vaccinator, rather than the process of aspiration, which determines how much a vaccine will hurt. Until we figure out whether or not accidentally injecting MRNA vaccines into blood vessels is causing myocarditis, something that can literally kill us, why are we not aspirating all of the vaccines that we administer? The practice is common in Denmark, China and many other countries which have lower rates of vaccination-related myocarditis than we do here in the United States. I’m not saying that there is any scientific evidence to support a causal relationship here but why not be safe instead of being sorry?
I support COVID-19 vaccination and this shows up in all of the custom essays about COVID that I’ve written. As we face down Omicron and other likely future mutations, we should absolutely begin aspirating vaccines until we know more about the effects of accidentally injecting MRNA vaccines into the bloodstream. In the meantime, go out there, get vaccinated, and ask your vaccinator to aspirate. They might show a bemused look or even refuse. Nevertheless, it can’t hurt to ask. Until we find out whether injecting MRNA vaccines into the bloodstream causes myocarditis, institutions like the CDC should be putting out the most cautious directives possible. This is clearly not the case, and the CDC needs to be pressured to more significantly look into this. Since most of us did not even know what aspiration was before this issue came up, I very much doubt that any of us would notice the ostensible discomfort that the CDC claims to be associated with aspirated intramuscular injections.