Protect Autoimmune Patients from COVID Vaccine Dangers

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Protect Autoimmune Patients from COVID Vaccine Dangers

“Have you been vaccinated?” That question could determine whether you can get into restaurants, movie theaters, schools, workplaces, shopping centers, airports—even neighbors’ homes. This unfairly discriminates against those who have a legitimate medical concern that prevents them from getting vaccinated. A newly released white paper from our friends at ANH International lays out the evidence showing that tens of millions of people with autoimmune conditions—or with a genetic predisposition to autoimmunity—are at increased risk for serious illness from COVID vaccines. The US government refuses to recognize these dangers. We’re launching an international campaign to allow these patients to refuse a medical procedure that puts them in harm’s way without relegating them to the status of second-class citizens.

Write to the FDA and CDC, telling them to: 1) change their current guidelines to warn autoimmune patients or those at risk for autoimmune disease against receiving the COVID vaccine, and 2) include a contraindication for autoimmune patients for COVID vaccines that receive emergency use authorization or full FDA approval.

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Protect Autoimmune Patients from COVID Vaccine Dangers

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Vaccination status for COVID could determine whether you can get into restaurants, movie theaters, schools, workplaces, shopping centers, airports--even neighbors' homes. This unfairly discriminates against those who have a legitimate medical concern that prevents them from getting vaccinated. There is evidence showing that tens of millions of people with autoimmune conditions--or with a genetic predisposition to autoimmunity--are at increased risk for serious illness from COVID vaccines.

I call on the FDA and CDC to: 1) change their current guidelines to warn autoimmune patients or those at risk for autoimmune disease against receiving the COVID vaccine, and 2) include a contraindication for autoimmune patients for COVID vaccines that receive emergency use authorization or full FDA approval.

Autoimmune diseases, a group of more than 80 debilitating, chronic illnesses, are estimated to affect nearly 10 percent of the US population. These disorders are characterized by a loss of the body's self-tolerance mechanism in which the immune system reacts to the host's own cells. Some of the most common types of autoimmune diseases are type 1 diabetes, Hashimoto's, lupus, celiac disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis.

Development of autoimmune disease  requires 1) a genetic predisposition and 2) an environmental trigger such as diet, toxic chemical exposure, or an infection.

In August 2020, a paper was released from one of the most published authors on autoimmunity warning that COVID vaccines could act as the environmental trigger for autoimmune disease. The authors pointed out that there are 26 common peptides between the COVID spike protein and the human genome. COVID vaccines work by giving our cells instructions for making parts of the COVID virus' spike protein. COVID infection and COVID vaccination could serve, the authors argue, as the basis for molecular mimicry--when the immune system of immunocompromised individuals (like those with autoimmune disease) cannot distinguish between the virus and harmless cells, attacking both.

In August 2020 those fears were theoretical. When reports of autoimmune-related, life threatening blood clotting events in the brain started appearing in Europe, then the US, those fears were confirmed. These events were dubbed "vaccine-induced prothrombotic immune thrombocytopenia" (VIPIT) and are thought to be the result of an aberrant immune response to the vaccine.

Attention has focused on the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, but there is also a risk of the blood clots from the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, since these vaccines also work by telling the body how to make the COVID spike protein. European health authorities recently announced that, of the more than 300 cases of the blood clots worldwide, 25 occurred with the Pfizer vaccine and five with the Moderna vaccine.

These serious adverse events are a clear signal that COVID vaccination is more dangerous for autoimmune patients. Yet US and international health authorities refuse to warn patients about any increased risk. This is unnecessarily putting lives at risk.

There is precedence for protecting certain patients from vaccines. For example, the CDC says that pregnant women, people over 50, children under 2 years of age, and people with weakened immune systems, among others, should not receive the nasal flu vaccine. There is an entire list of contraindications to most approved vaccines. Patients with autoimmunity or at risk for autoimmunity should similarly be excluded from COVID vaccine recommendations.

I'm calling on the CDC and FDA to: 1) change their current guidelines to warn autoimmune patients or those at risk for autoimmune disease against receiving the COVID vaccine, and 2) include a contraindication for autoimmune patients for COVID vaccines that receive emergency use authorization or full FDA approval.

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