The Claim:
A paramedic shared a story about a healthy man experiencing near-fainting and abdominal pain, later discovered to be an aortic dissection, who survived surgery but eventually deteriorated and died, proof of what he claims is a rise in such cases following COVID vaccinations.
The Facts:
A paramedic who often gives opinions about the COVID shots, was called to an emergency. He gets a brief history as he transfers the patient to the hospital, where he is eventually diagnosed by his physician with an aortic dissection.
Beyond the fact that the paramedic only gets a brief history, nothing in the history he gets would lead him to believe a vaccine caused the aortic dissection. A paramedic, who is a lifesaving hero, is not in the position to make this kind of call about a patient.
He claims it was the vaccines because the patient at some point “received three COVID vaccinations.” He also claims that aortic dissections and aneurysms were rare before COVID vaccines. The COVID pandemic also brought about COVID, a known cause of aortic dissections.
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