Does the Pfizer mRNA COVID-19 vaccine cause kidney injury and renal failure?

Although it is true that kidney injury and renal failure are listed as possible vaccine adverse events, these vaccine-related injuries are very rare. An article highlights just how rare of an event this is using VAERS, a system anyone can use to report a suspected adverse event following vaccination. VAERS data shows 1133 self-reported cases of kidney injury between Dec 2020 and June 2021, with over 300 million doses of vaccine administered. Remember, these cases of injury can be reported to VAERS whether or not they were actually caused by the vaccine.

It’s also important to note that though some research indicates that the vaccine may, in very rare cases, cause kidney injury, that research also indicates that COVID infection itself is a common source of kidney damage and is “proven to be one of the main risk factors for worse prognosis in intensive care units.”

Finally, the online claim attempts to suggest that an infant was included in the Pfizer vaccine population, even though infants were not authorized for participation. However, study documents show that this infant was only included because the infant was breastfed by a participating parent.