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Justin Bieber: His Ramsey Hunt syndrome is not due to vaccines!

Post author By Orac
Post date June 20, 2022
126 Comments on Justin Bieber: His Ramsey Hunt syndrome is not due to vaccines!

I never thought I’d be writing about Justin Bieber—or this late. However, after Bieber announced that he had developed facial paralysis as a result of Ramsay Hunt syndrome antivaxxers swooped in to blame it on COVID-19 vaccines.

Tags Bell's palsy, COVID, COVID vaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Hailey Bieber, Justin Bieber, Ramsay Hunt suyndrome

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Bell’s palsy, syncope, and death: The impending antivax tsunami of fake COVID-19 vaccine “adverse reactions”

Post author By Orac
Post date December 31, 2020
148 Comments on Bell’s palsy, syncope, and death: The impending antivax tsunami of fake COVID-19 vaccine “adverse reactions”

Reports of Bell’s palsy and syncopy after vaccination with RNA-based COVID-19 vaccines remind us how antivaxxers will weaponize anything bad happening after vaccination. Sadly, I predict an impending tsunami of confusing correlation with causation.

Tags Bell's palsy, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, death, hpv, HPV vaccine, pandemic, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, POTS, SARS-CoV-2, sids, sudden infant death syndrome

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