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RFK Jr.'s Running Mate Sets New Low For Anti-Vax Misinformation
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, has repeatedly insisted she does not oppose vaccines—though she continues to sow doubt about at least some of them.
In a post to X on Tuesday, the Silicon Valley lawyer opined about the "devastating reality" of Moderna's mRNA jab. "It is not a safe vaccine, and must be recalled immediately. Many people are suffering who took it," she wrote.
She added a picture of herself and her boyfriend, "reformed Wall Street guy" Jacob Strumwasser, and the caption, "One of us took 3 doses of the Moderna mRNA vaccine, and the other did not. Guess who?"
Strumwasser was wearing a T-shirt that read, "At least my tin foil hat won't give me myocarditis"—a reference to inflammation of the heart that is a very rare side effect of the mRNA vaccine.
"Jacob, I love you and your ridiculous shirts," she wrote.
Despite being widely shared in certain online circles, Shanahan's vaccine skepticism is not based in science, Amesh Adalja, a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, told The Daily Beast.
"There's no basis to recall the Moderna COVID vaccine," he said. If anything, it should be "in the hall of fame of vaccines as part of a vaccine effort that would have been thought of as miraculous in years past."
As for myocarditis, Adalja said that cases are concentrated in teenage boys and young adult males, and are more likely to occur following the second vaccine dose. The likelihood of occurrence can be reduced by spacing out vaccines, he said, and even if myocarditis does occur, cases "have been relatively mild, not life threatening."
Most important, he continued, the COVID-19 virus itself "is more likely to cause myocarditis than the vaccines are," making the cost-benefit analysis in favor of vaccination even more obvious.
Overall, he concluded, side effects are "very, very minor and pale in comparison to the benefit that the vaccine provides."
Kennedy has spread similar conspiracies in the past and once drew heat for comparing COVID lockdowns and government oversight to life in Nazi Germany. Shanahan, who was previously married to Google billionaire Sergey Brin, helped bankroll Kennedy's 2024 Super Bowl ad and is expected to boost his campaign's financial prospects.
A spokesperson for the campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Michael Flynn's Anti-Vax Pals Want To Take Over This Florida Hospital
The sister of Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn and a band of conservative anti-vax activists are running for the board of a renowned public hospital in Florida under the banner of "medical freedom."
If they win, they'll hold a majority over Sarasota's award-winning facility where one of their allies—elected in 2022 with two other "health freedom candidates" to the nine-member panel—is already trying to peddle vaccine misinformation.
The rogues' gallery includes Mary Flynn O'Neill, who directs her brother's nonprofit and routinely appears on right-wing shows with QAnon conspiracy theorists; Tanya Parus, the president of Moms For America's Sarasota chapter and co-owner of a "freedom-based" health clinic, and Tamzin Rosenwasser, a dermatologist who once railed against the Federation of State Medical Boards's warning to doctors who spread COVID vaccine misinformation, comparing the organization to Stalin's secret police.
A fourth contender, Dr. Stephen Guffanti, has a longstanding grievance against the hospital, Sarasota Memorial Hospital (SMH), related to his 2021 stay there for COVID. He filed a police report alleging false imprisonment, battery and theft and has dogged the facility's officials ever since. In speeches, Guffanti has called the COVID vaccine a "bioweapon" unleashed by the FDA and big pharma.
O'Neill is the executive director of Michael Flynn's nonprofit America's Future Inc., which has paid her and other members of the Flynn family hundreds of thousands of dollars. She has billed herself as an anti-child sex trafficking expert, teaming up with QAnon promoter Liz Crokin and Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Mike Smith.
And Parus is known for her work with conservative group Moms for America—a Trump-loving network similar to Moms for Liberty, aimed at counteracting "radical feminists" and attacking public schools—and co-founding the anti-vaccine "We the People Health and Wellness Center." Last October, the center put out a call to action to push the Sarasota County Commission to pass a "medical freedom" resolution providing a "protection against quarantine" and prohibiting "medical and/or vaccine passports." A Sarasota Herald-Tribune columnist stressed the proposal passed "with minimal discussion and almost no public awareness."
Parus's clinic partner is Vic Mellor, the businessman and former Marine behind the Hollow 2A, a 10-acre conservative stomping ground in Venice that Flynn has financially supported and used as a base to hobnob with the far-right Proud Boys and other extremists.
Now local watchdogs are sounding the alarm that the "freedom" crew could put the prized hospital on a path to privatization and the promotion of bunk science.
"Are you a patient advocate? They hung people at the Nuremberg trials when they were found guilty. They used piano wire. So do you want piano wire or hemp or nylon rope?"
— A voicemail to SMH
"If they are elected," one retired doctor warned in a letter to the Herald-Tribune, "what is considered a very good hospital will be guided by a bunch of conspiracy theorists who do not believe that COVID-19 was dangerous."
Last week, the Herald-Tribune revealed board member Victor Rohe wanted to add a warning about COVID vaccines to the hospital's website—inspired by Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo's January comments (widely slammed by medical experts) arguing they're unsafe and could harm human DNA.
The resolution states that if anyone makes inquiries on the vaccine, SMH employees must refer them to the site, which would note in part, "there may be potential risks involved that outweigh any potential benefits of those injections. We encourage you to consider these issues before receiving any more COVID-19 mRNA injections."
During a January board meeting, Rohe said community members sent him the proposed website resolution. He has not disclosed who the residents are and didn't return messages left by The Daily Beast.
Rohe's proposal drew the ire of residents fighting extremism on Sarasota's school board. They appeared at the hospital panel's March 26 meeting to decry what they called Michael Flynn and his flock's attempts to infiltrate local government.
Tanya Parus, Mary Flynn O'Neill, and Tamzin Rosenwasser M.D.
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/medicalfreedomsrq.Com
At the podium, Carol Lerner argued, "Putting this on the SMH agenda legitimizes quack misinformation based on conspiracy theories and pseudoscience. And who are these 'community members' who drafted this resolution? It's Flynn and the people around him."
Flynn and his sister Mary didn't return messages seeking comment.
Lisa Schurr, a co-founder of the nonprofit Support Our Schools, thanked the nurses and doctors who cared for her last year in her emergency room. "I will do anything I can to make sure that this hospital survives," she said.
Schurr told The Daily Beast that the hospital saved her life when her appendix burst.
To Schurr, the hospital election is a redux of the school board race that elected Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler—known recently for a threeway sex scandal—and her sidekicks. "These people want to dismantle the hospital the same way they want to dismantle public education," she said. "It's two sides of the same bloody coin."
"People slept through the whole school board debacle until it was too late and we got stuck with the candidates that we got stuck with," Schurr said, "and we're going to be looking at the same kind of crap if we don't do something about this."
Lerner, another Support Our Schools director, believes the medical freedom crusaders' foothold on the board is part of a wider plan of taking over public institutions from the bottom up.
"When Flynn has his mantra of 'local action has a national impact,' that's what he's talking about. That's how he's using Sarasota."
The board governs the Sarasota Memorial Health Care System and its flagship hospital SMH, which made Newsweek's 2024 list of the world's best hospitals and is Florida's fifth best hospital in U.S. News, which also ranks it a high-performing facility for gastroenterology and other specialties.
Advocates for the publicly-owned hospital point out that as a nonprofit, it reinvests in the area with new facilities and services rather than filling private shareholders' pockets.
But over the past couple years, right-leaning activists including Parus have painted SMH as a money-hungry enterprise profiting off COVID and covering up a spate of pandemic deaths in a "sinister scheme." The hospital's doctors denied these claims. After Rohe and two colleagues secured their seats in 2022, the low-profile local proceedings devolved into politicized clashes over the pandemic.
"If they are elected, what is considered a very good hospital will be guided by a bunch of conspiracy theorists who do not believe that COVID-19 was dangerous."
— A retired doctor writing to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Agitators bashed the hospital for following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines and using antiviral drug remdesivir while failing to treat patients with controversial drugs like ivermectin, an anti-parasitic, and hydroxychloroquine, the antimalarial touted as a COVID cure by former President Trump. (The FDA says neither drug is safe or effective in treating or preventing COVID-19).
Others shared their grief, claiming relatives died because of the hospital's COVID treatments or refusal to prescribe ivermectin, and that families were kept away from dying loved ones.
Under pressure from the detractors, the hospital agreed to conduct an internal study on its COVID protocols. After it unveiled its review last February, which showed the facility outperformed others nationwide in preventing deaths, the right-wing contingent demanded it commission a new third-party investigation.
Michael Flynn—who once expressed paranoia that the COVID-19 vaccine was in his salad dressing—attended the board meeting that month and tweeted that SMH "took what could have been a rebuilding of trust and further damaged this institution with a 'fox inside the henhouse investigation.'"
"Their little report is not the end of the investigation," Flynn added. "More to follow."
Flynn also suggested the nearly century-old hospital should be privatized.
Rage against the hospital continued in the following weeks, with people leaving voicemails and sending hate mail to doctors and other staff, some of it laden with antisemitic slurs and death threats and prompting a Sarasota police investigation.
"Good morning, are you a patient advocate?" one voicemail highlighted by Mother Jones said. "They hung people at the Nuremberg trials when they were found guilty. They used piano wire. So do you want piano wire or hemp or nylon rope?"
Last year, hospital board member Tramm Hudson cautioned that the attacks were part of a "coordinated" campaign by outside activists using COVID misinformation to "strengthen their political standing in Florida." And hospital spokeswoman Kim Savage told the Bradenton Herald that some provocateurs were affiliated with the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, as well as Flynn and the Zelenko Freedom Foundation, a group launched by the late hydroxychloroquine-pushing doctor Vladimir Zelenko.
Dr. Kirk Voelker, a pulmonologist and medical director of Sarasota Memorial Health Care System's Clinical Research Center, said hospital critics deserve to be heard.
"What happened during COVID was horrendous," Voelker told The Daily Beast. "Because of our guidelines passed down from CDC and major academic institutions, we did have things like family members dying without anyone present. It was heartbreaking. It was traumatizing, and that should be acknowledged."
But the medical freedom crowd's objections, Voelker said, should lie with the CDC and Florida health department rather than the hospital, which was following official directives.
Voelker added the hospital did permit usage of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine until federal guidelines showed that they presented more risk than benefit. "I was probably one of the few physicians who actually prescribed ivermectin because the preliminary data behind it demonstrated the possibility of benefit," he said.
While Voelker did research trials on ivermectin and other medications, he said the data showed that "it just did not do what we thought it had promised to do."
The women on the "medical freedom" slate didn't respond to requests for comment.
Giuffanti, however, had much to say about his feud with the hospital, one that galvanized others like Rohe to join his cause. (Rohe told the Washington Post Guffanti's situation inspired him to self-treat COVID at home: "If I went to the hospital, I believed I would die.")
"I am running because I want doctors to practice medicine the way it should be practiced," Guffanti said in an email.
Reached by The Daily Beast, Rosenwasser declined to share why she was running and what issues she found important with the board.
"I can comment to the public without going through a leftist, Marxist organization," she said. "If it's the Daily Beast, it sounds like it is a leftist, Marxist organization."
The freedom candidates shared toned-down campaign press releases with the Herald-Tribune, with Mary Flynn O'Neill declaring: "I am committed to ensuring our community hospital, Sarasota Memorial Hospital, remains publicly supported while respecting health freedoms of our county's citizens."
"People slept through the whole school board debacle until it was too late and we got stuck with the candidates that we got stuck with."
— Lisa Schurr of Support Our Schools
"I want to ensure the public can trust our community hospital to continue doing so into the future without undue outside influence," she added.
Rosenwasser announced she opposes "medical corporatists" and that she's a "vehement proponent of public hospitals answerable to the voters." The doctor—who's written editorials decrying Medicare and Medicaid, Obamacare, and Critical Race Theory—is also a past president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS).
While its name has the patina of the medical establishment, AAPS is a tiny but vocal fringe group that once boasted Rand Paul as a member, has cast doubt on measles vaccines, and sued in an attempt to overturn the Affordable Care Act.
"I was orphaned at age 15, and I have worked very hard all my life," Rosenwasser fumed in one LinkedIn comment. "The US gov't has confiscated my earnings, and bestowed them on other citizens who are strangers to me. I am forced to pay for all those on Medicaid and Medicare. After paying back all my educational loans, now Socialists in the USA want me to pay for everyone else's education." In another comment, she bemoaned having to "pay for everybody else's retirement, and their parents' medical bills."
Rosenwasser's views seem in direct conflict with the spirit of the Sarasota hospital, which boasts on its website, "We are proud to serve as the region's safety net hospital, delivering the lion's share of inpatient Medicaid and charity care."
For her part, Tanya Parus shared a statement announcing her "main focus will be to bring full accountability and transparency" to the hospital and again impugned the facility's internal COVID review, calling it "a whitewashed report."
A former EMT, Parus previously told The Daily Beast that she connected families to doctors who issued kids' mask waivers or prescribed off-label ivermectin. "I was seeing this huge, huge need," she said. When she launched her clinic, she searched for doctors who'd been canned over their COVID beliefs. "Those are the doctors you want there," she said. "Those are the doctors that are going to stick up for you as a patient."
"One of the reasons why I have the clinic and I wanted to be the medical specialist here and I wanted to run for hospital board," Parus said at a national Moms for America panel last month, "is because people are scared to death to go to the hospital. They're afraid."
In a December 2022 interview with QAnon conspiracy theorist Ann Vandersteel, Parus accused the media of mischaracterizing the first round of hospital board candidates.
"It's not a political thing, we're trying to save everybody's lives, we're trying to get the word out about what's going on in the hospitals—and then they contort it into 'it's a political agenda,'" Parus said. "So this just goes to show you it's all about taking back our country.
"We have to do that from all these institutions, including the medical institutions."
Joseph DeVirgilio, a Republican incumbent who lost to a "health freedom" hopeful in 2022, told The Daily Beast the prior election wasn't a choice between incumbents and the fringe group but among three different GOP slates. The split votes, he said, led to some health freedom members being voted into office.
Voters should pay close attention in 2024, DeVirgilio said, to avoid the same fate. In Parus' race against Republican incumbent Sarah Lodge, whoever wins the August primary will get elected to the board, so long as there is no challenger from another party. The other contests, which feature Democrats, will be decided in November.
As a believer in vaccines and science, DeVirgilio is opposed to the medical freedom camp and says some of its candidates may not have an understanding of the board's advisory role—especially in light of Rohe's anti-vax resolution.
"The danger of any of that stuff is once an organization, Sarasota Memorial, begins getting a reputation for non-mainstream medicine … you're going to begin losing some top quality professionals," he said. "We have world-class medicine here."
At least two Democrats are also vying for hospital board seats: George Davis, a retired family physician who specializes in palliative care, and John Lutz, who has over 40 years of hospital, insurance, and consulting experience.
Davis is facing off against O'Neill, and another Republican, Pam Beitlich, the hospital system's executive director of Women & Children's Services who is set to retire. "It doesn't matter what party you belong to," Davis said. "It's really important that people step up because we have to protect our hospital."
Lutz is running against Guffanti and Kevin Cooper, a Republican and Iraq War vet with years of experience working in the nonprofit sector.
"As a person who has spent my entire career in healthcare leadership … I live it every day and understand the complexity that it takes to do it," Lutz said. "A lot of these other folks seem to have more of an agenda. I'm not sure whose purpose it serves."
Stephen Guffanti, the anti-vaxx former emergency room doc, insists that he's running for the hospital board because of his own harrowing experience during COVID. It's a tale he brings up repeatedly—most recently at the March 26 hospital board meeting, when Guffanti asked every panel member to review his medical chart.
"I was attacked because I documented patient abandonment of my roommate who went on to die," Guffanti told The Daily Beast in an email.
He denied enlisting this year's medical freedom candidates to run for the board. He said he only recruited Victor Rohe, a Republican and former New York City police officer, to campaign under the "health freedom" platform.
"Victor picked me up and brought me to get oxygen after I left the hospital. We're friends. And when the others decided to run I helped as best I could," Guffanti wrote. "You asked if I recruited them. Helping a candidate and recruiting a candidate are two different things."
"Our board needs people who understand medicine or else they miss that which would be obvious to a doctor," he said, adding, "I would prefer not to run, but I love medicine and what it is becoming is too disturbing to stay on the sidelines."
Guffanti has rallied for the 2024 cycle of candidates too.
During a February talk at a "medical freedom" forum in Oklahoma, he shared his hospital horror story and solicited money for the Florida race. "We don't have the candidates we need to run for the hospital board," Guffanti said, before announcing a sign-up sheet for pledges. "When we do get the candidates, I will contact you and ask you for your donation."
In August 2021, Guffanti filed a police report over his stay at Sarasota Memorial Hospital though cops said there wasn't evidence to support a case.
Guffanti says he was admitted to the hospital for a COVID infection on Aug. 1, 2021 and received a roommate the next day: a 51-year-old father of five who died after being placed on a ventilator.
In a faxed statement to police, Guffanti said he watched the man's condition worsen and asked him on Aug. 11 if he could serve as his patient advocate. According to Guffanti, the roommate said yes, and they reviewed his labs with a nurse.
A trained doctor himself, Guffanti believed the man had a bacterial infection and pneumonia and questioned why the hospital wasn't treating it. "On 8-12-21 at 2 am the patient was having difficulty maintaining oxygen saturation levels," Guffanti wrote to police. "The nurse used a mask to up the levels, but didn't contact the doctor."
After Guffanti called an "infectious disease specialist" and tried to get the nurse to speak with him, he was removed from his room and accused of violating HIPAA.
He claims security stopped him from leaving the hospital against medical advice. "Two security guards held down my arms while 2 nurses held my legs down as I struggled," Guffanti wrote, adding that he was held in four-point restraints.
One doctor ordered Guffanti to be held under the Baker Act, a Florida law that permits patients to be involuntarily confined during mental health emergencies. Guffanti claims this doctor put a psychosis diagnosis on his chart without ever evaluating him. Another physician released Guffanti a few hours later.
Hospital documents obtained by police showed staffers alleged Guffanti's behavior was "aggressive, disruptive, erratic and dangerous" and that he had snapped photos of the other patient to post on social media. "At this point in the investigation," the cop noted, "there is no evidence to support the allegations claimed by Guffanti."
Despite this, Guffanti has requested the board conduct an independent investigation related to his case and to eight other people who died during the pandemic.
Kim Savage, the hospital's public information officer, told The Daily Beast that in November 2022, the hospital board voted to conduct a review of the system's COVID-19 care. As part of it, the board's Committee for Professional Enhancement "conducted an in-depth evaluation of the medical care provided to nine patients, including Dr. Guffanti."
"While we cannot provide information about individual patients due to privacy laws, the CPE (made up of physicians with experience and special training in peer review and professional practice evaluation), found all nine cases met the standard of care," Savage said.
Savage said Guffanti's claim was also reviewed by the state's Agency for Health Care Administration, and at his request, nonprofit accreditation body the Joint Commission, and an outside expert physician hired at Sarasota Memorial's expense who was recommended by personal injury firm Morgan & Morgan.
"None of the reviews substantiated his complaints," Savage said.
Largest 'Long Vax' Study To Date On Post-Covid-19 Vaccination Syndrome
Of the 241 online survey respondents who indicated that they were suffering from post-Covid-19 ... [+] vaccination syndrome, 71% reported experiencing exercise intolerance, 69% excessive fatigue, 63% some kind of numbness, 53% brain fog and 63% neuropathy. (Photo by Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images)
PA Images via Getty ImagesSince the Covid-19 vaccines first reached the market in late 2020, lots of unsubstantiated vaccination side effect claims have emerged such as assertions that Covid-19 vaccines can turn you into a gigantic magnet. While such unsupported claims really shouldn't stick in any way, one set of potential Covid-19 vaccine side effects certainly deserves more attention and scrutiny than it's been getting. These are the post-vaccination syndrome side effects that some people have continued to experience long after they were vaccinated, hence the "long vax" nickname for PVS.
Amidst all the fanfare that Covid-19 vaccines have been getting for preventing many, many, many deaths and severe Covid-19 outcomes around the world, those suffering PVS may have been feeling like no one is really listening to their stories. That's why a team of researchers primarily from the Yale University School of Medicine began what they aptly named the LISTEN study, which stands for the Yale Listen to Immune, Symptom and Treatment Experiences Now study. And this research team recently posted a manuscript on medRxiv describing what's now the largest study to date on PVS: a sample of 241 surveyed people.
Now, 241 may not seem like a super large number, given how many people around the world have been vaccinated against Covid-19, and posting a manuscript on medRxiv can be kind of like posting a video on YouTube. The manuscript did describe PVS as "rare." And anyone with internet access and a keyboard can in theory post a manuscript on such a web site. The manuscript hasn't gone through the scientific peer-review process that publications in respectable scientific journals have. So take the results from this study with at least 241 grains of salt.
Nevertheless, 241 people is still much larger than a case report and other samples of PVS sufferers that have been reported previously. It's how many people were in the sample described in this LISTEN manuscript with 80% of them being women, 87% of them being white, 88% of them being from the U.S. And half of them being younger than 46 years of age. These were folks who had responded to the LISTEN online surveys that were administered in November 2022 and July 2023—after being recruited via the Hugo Health Kindred, an online patient community—and reported suffering at least one of 96 different possible PVS symptoms listed in the survey. The research team—consisting of Harlan M. Krumholz, Yilun Wu, Mitsuaki Sawano, Rishi Shah, Tianna Zhou, Adith S. Arun, Pavan Khosla, Shayaan Kaleem, Anushree Vashist, Bornali Bhattacharjee, Qinglan Ding, Yuan Lu, César Caraballo, Frederick Warner, Chenxi Huang, Jeph Herrin, David Putrino, Danice Hertz, Brianne Dressen, and Akiko Iwasaki—excluded anyone who also reported having long Covid.
Brain fog describes a feeling of confusion, forgetfulness, and a lack of focus and mental clarity. ... [+] (Photo: Getty)
gettyOf the 241 survey respondents who matched these criteria, 71% reported experiencing exercise intolerance, 69% excessive fatigue, 63% some kind of numbness, 53% brain fog and 63% neuropathy. Neuropathy, by the way, is when you experience some kind of nerve pain, typically a stabbing, burning or tingling sensation, which obviously is not very pleasant. By the way, it wasn't as if these were isolated symptoms, although many of these symptoms can leave people feeling quite isolated, as will be described later. Half of the respondents reported experiencing 22 or more different PVS symptoms.
The vast majority of these survey respondents had received the Covid-19 mRNA vaccines with 127 (55%) getting the Pfizer-BioNTech one and 86 (37%) getting the Moderna vaccine. The symptoms began after the first dose of the vaccine for 44% of the respondents, the second dose for 33%, the third dose for 14% and subsequent doses for 9%. These symptoms began fairly soon after vaccination, too, with 50% of respondents saying that they first noticed problems within three days of getting vaccinated. And true to the "long vax" nickname, respondents indicated that these symptoms have persisted for quite a long time—ranging from 40 to 1,058 days with a median of 595 days, meaning that well over half of them had been suffering such symptoms for over a year-and-a-half.
As you can imagine, feeling like your brain is in a fog or suffering stabbing pains to your arms or legs is going to affect your daily life. Of the survey respondents, 93% reported feeling unease, 82% fear, 98% rundown, 81% overwhelmed by worries, 76% anxiety, 80% helplessness, 76% depression, 72% hopelessness and 49% worthlessness at least once during the week prior to completing the survey. Moreover, 91% reported suffering sleep problems and 86% reported having pain that interfered with the daily activities.
The LISTEN survey results also suggested that others around the respondents weren't really listening enough to the "long vax" sufferers. Indeed, 41% reported that they had fewer than three people to rely on for help, and 36% indicated that it was challenging or very challenging to get assistance for tasks such as shopping or visiting the doctor. Moreover, 20% often felt a lack of companionship, 23% felt left out, 32% felt isolated and 12% felt lonely often or always.
And here's the problem with nearly any medical condition that hasn't gotten enough attention: typically not enough time, effort and resources have been allocated to establish effective and scientifically supported treatments for such conditions. That's clearly been the case with PVS. As a result, the survey respondents have tried all sorts of remedies in a rather scattershot matter. All in all, respondents reported giving a median of 20 different treatments a shot. Yes, that's right, half of the respondents have tried 20 or more different treatments in what may have been largely futile efforts to deal with their PVS symptoms. This included 48% trying oral steroids, 25% gabapentin, 20% low-dose naltrexone, 18% ivermectin, 11% propranolol and 11% bronchodilators as well as 51% limiting their exercise or exertion, 44% quitting alcohol or caffeine, 44% hydrating themselves and increasing salt intake and 39% fasting intermittently.
Add this latest manuscript to the slowly growing body of evidence that Covid-19 vaccination can in some cases result in PVS, including the case studies and reports that I covered for Forbes back in July. This manuscript still has to go through the rigors of scientific peer-review. So keep listening for updates. Meanwhile, the LISTEN study has continued to recruit participants. As mentioned previously, it's still not clear what percentage of people vaccinated against Covid-19 have ended up suffering PVS. Regardless, no matter how rare such side effects may end being, anyone truly suffering problems from Covid-19 vaccines deserves at least a listen.
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