The Claim:
A nuclear radiologist without a current medical license claims that a COVID-19 vaccine caused Jamie Foxx’s brain aneurysm and that aneurysms are a common side effect of the vaccine.
The Facts:
The press reports that Actor Jamie Foxx has experienced a medical complication. No information about that complication, or if it was even an aneurysm, has been released, only that he seems to be recovering. There is also no indication that he was vaccinated or when his last vaccine dose would have been if he were vaccinated.
Given the lack of real facts, this claim is meritless. This particular unlicensed nuclear radiologist gets attention with tweets blaming many deaths on vaccines without any evidence at all that the deaths were in any way related to vaccines or, in many cases, that the people had even been vaccinated prior to their deaths. He just trolls obituaries and decides it was the vaccine, probably.
There is no evidence that the COVID vaccine causes brain aneurysms, much less enough that it could be deemed common. Each year approximately half a million deaths from brain aneurysms occur worldwide, about half of them in people under 50.
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