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Four Brits Develop Condition That Can Cause Paralysis After Taking AstraZeneca Covid Vaccine

by Michael Curzon
22 June 2021 5:55 PM

Four Nottinghamshire men aged between 20 and 57 have developed a condition that can cause paralysis and can even be life-threatening shortly after taking the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine. The condition, called Guillain-Barré Syndrome, has also been found in people who have had the AZ vaccine in Australia and India. The MailOnline has more.

All four cases were spotted in the Nottingham area, where around 700,000 people have had the AZ coronavirus jab. 

British health chiefs have yet to offer a public breakdown of how many cases of the syndrome have been spotted in vaccine recipients across the entire country…

Cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome after AstraZeneca’s vaccine were described in two separate studies in the journal Annals of Neurology.

The complication – normally triggered by an infection – usually occurs in around one in 100,000 people in the U.K. and U.S..

But doctors in India who also uncovered the link say it was occurring up to 10 times more than expected.

One of the articles published in the journal broke down the cases spotted in Nottingham, which all occurred within ten days of each other. 

Symptoms began 11 to 22 days after the first jab and all of the four men were aged between 20 and 57.

One had no relevant medical history. The three others had ulcerative colitis, asthma and high blood pressure.

None had been infected with Covid. They were treated with antibodies and steroid pills.

Dr Christopher Allen, a Clinical Neuroscientist at Nottingham University, who wrote the article, admitted they cannot be certain the jab caused the neurological illness and it could have happened by chance.

But it demonstrates the need for “robust post-vaccination surveillance”, he said…

The second paper by neurologists at the Aster Medcity hospital in Kochi, Kerala, identified seven cases of severe Guillain-Barré syndrome.

They were struck down within a fortnight of receiving the first AstraZeneca vaccine.

Lead author Dr Boby Varkey Maramattom said rates of the condition were between 1.4 and 10-fold higher than would normally be expected. 

Worth reading in full.

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Londo Mollari
Londo Mollari
4 years ago

Four cases – 4(!) – in such a short time seems statistically unlikely. I am sure one of the other regular posters can confirm (or refute) this.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

It’s very difficult to judge.

But that, in itself, is an indicator of how loose and sloppy is the monitoring and use of comparative data to give a fix on all sorts of issues.

One of the key areas is accurate information about the general incidence of adverse effects. Because the snake oil has been pushed to massive proportions in a gullible population, it is difficult to make rigorous comparisons with other medicines in terms of Yellow Card/VAERS reporting. And this is important if the rationalists are to stick to rigorous analysis as an implicit rejection of the panic propaganda.

I guess others will have had the same experience as me in seeing, early in 2020, how the BBC was playing the ‘lack of context’ game to enhance the supposed seriousness of the non-HCID virus, and will have recognized the underlying propaganda.

We need to pose the opposite.

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Jo
Jo
4 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

We have one case in our village. She is now paralysed from the neck down and is still in hospital. The hospital could not diagnose it – had to call in experts from AZ. (And that is telling in itself – wasn’t there a case of this during the trials?)

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Hester
Hester
4 years ago
Reply to  Jo

I know one person who has been hospitalised with Covid this was in March 2020. I know the following people who have suffered side effects from the experimental “vaccine” The same man who suffered from covid has had both injections, is now seriously ill suffering from auto immune disease which is attacking his body he looks like the living dead and I suspect will not see Christmas A close friend had injection number one lost the sight in her left eye has had to pay privately for a lense replacement, she will not be having the second. Another female friend has had both, her periods are now so heavy she is confined to home for days Another friend has been through the menopause, her periods have restarted. A devout covidian, not a friend wont let anyone in her home who has not been vaccinated has now got a face covered with cold sores, her GP has confirmed this is a side effect. Aclose friend who recovered from Hodgkins Lymphoma has had her 2 injections now has chest pains and is undergoing tests. Her son 24 has had the vaccine as it was offered at his place of work where they… Read more »

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marebobowl
marebobowl
4 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

Refer to Robert Kennedy’s children’s defense news. He publishes a weekly report of the CDC’s VAERS. A significant number of Gillian barre cases post vaccination.

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helenf
helenf
4 years ago

Four? Try 294, and that’s just for the AZ injection.

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Mark
Mark
4 years ago
Reply to  helenf

If the 1 in 100,000 per year rate given as normal in the UK is correct, we should expect around 666 for the UK throughout 2020.

But if the increased rate given in the Indian study is indicative, as being 1.4-10 times higher for the vaccinated, that should be hard to cover up for long.

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helenf
helenf
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark

What is the probability of 336 people (as reported to the yellow card system) developing Guillaine-Barre syndrome by chance within days of being injected with one of these so-called covid vaccines? Let’s not forget that there will be others whose GBS has not been reported or linked to the vaccines.

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Mark
Mark
4 years ago
Reply to  helenf

Bearing in mind we are told some 43 million people have been given at least one dose of a vaccine in half a year, I suppose you’d expect up to around 200 odd cases “naturally” in those people, though not if you allow for just the period after vaccination. A lot depends on the details of reporting, time periods etc

I’m perfectly open to the vaccinations being dangerous, though I’m opposed to these vaccines on political grounds not health grounds. But there’s still wiggle room for the vaccine promoters to get away with it atm I think, given the established willingness of experts to distort the truth for them.

My point is that if the rates suggested in the Indian study hold up, that position will get very difficult to sustain.

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silverbirch
silverbirch
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark

What Mike Yeadon referred to as ‘plausible deniability’

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Mike Yeadon
Mike Yeadon
4 years ago
Reply to  silverbirch

Maybe.
What I was thinking was
1. They tell you there’s a new disease that causes symptoms A, B & C
2. They jab everyone with mRNA causing death via one if those
3. They die if A, B or C

Plausibly denied murder.
Do it on scale.

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helenf
helenf
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark

I think that the MHRA trying to bury these large numbers of reports of very serious adverse events among hundreds of pages of unsearchable yellow card data is an admission on their part that their beloved vaccines are maiming and killing many people. They will not get away with the “ it’s just a coincidence” line for much longer. These experimental injections are affecting too many people within the previously pro-vaccine populace. Thank you UK Column for making the vaccine adverse events searchable and more transparent.

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SweetBabyCheeses
SweetBabyCheeses
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark

I don’t think there’s any such thing as developing it “naturally” though. Well maybe naturally but GBS is definitely not random! It’s cause by recent infection/vaccination/surgery. I think most humans are pretty good at detecting what makes us ill as it is an evolutionary tool that helps to keep us alive. They can only keep up with the coincidence theory for so long.

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Hester
Hester
4 years ago
Reply to  helenf

they don’t report, because they cannot believe that the injection would be allowed if it made people ill, and lets face it the Government hasn’t exactly been open and honest about the yellow card reporting system and side effects, and the MSM has once again colluded with the deception on the people

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sjonesy1999
sjonesy1999
4 years ago

Total coincidence and nothing to do with the injections (cough cough)

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iane
iane
4 years ago
Reply to  sjonesy1999

Oops, nasty cough there – how about a jab or two?

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J4mes
J4mes
4 years ago

Took some time but looks like LS are now dedicating articles to the danger of the ‘vaccine’ (aside from the weekly medical compilation report into side effects). Better late than never.

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J4mes
J4mes
4 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

After a bit of thought, I’m going to retract the ‘better late than never’ comment.

Considering such an enormous proportion of the population have now been jabbed and double-jabbed with this poison – after months of protest at LS support of the ‘vaccine’, I think most of the damage might already have been done.

We’re just about seven months in now and over a thousand people have died because they were injected, innumerable numbers of people have been severely injured from it – and god knows what will happen in autumn.

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John
John
4 years ago

GBS is an autoimmune response, usually occurs 2 weeks post infection, for example gastroenteritis is known to trigger the condition. Thrombocytopenia (unexplained bruising due to low platelets) also can occur 2 weeks post infection, again gastroenteritis is implicated.
GBS starts with paralysis in both feet, then spreads up the legs. If left untreated it eventually reaches the diaphragm, which prevents the person breathing.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  John

Also reported on VAERS for the other vaccines, not just AZ. It’s a known rare side effect of traditional vaccines – more common with these experimental ones? One more reason not to risk vaccines for those not at risk of harm from Covid, or having natural immunity from actual Covid.

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago

Paralysis.
Living death.
Never leaving the house.
Putting it brutally, isn’t that what ultrazombies want? Ultimate Covid safety.

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TheTruthTheWholeTruthAndNothingButTheTruth
TheTruthTheWholeTruthAndNothingButTheTruth
4 years ago

Very good analysis of vaccine harms and deaths in the US from Steve Kirsch who has put over $1M of his own money into C19 drug treatment research. He’s also offering $2M to anyone who can prove the WHO and US NIH got their C19 treatment policy right. That’s what you call putting your money where your mouth is.

Are the Covid-19 vaccines “safe and effective”?
https://trialsitenews.com/are-the-covid-19-vaccines-safe-and-effective/

If you can prove that the NIH and WHO got their treatment guidelines right, you could win $2M
https://trialsitenews.com/if-you-can-prove-that-the-nih-and-who-got-their-treatment-guidelines-right-you-could-win-2m

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I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
4 years ago

When you think about it the survival rate for covid was roughly on par with a severe strain of seasonal influenza (99+%) and the symptoms (if you get any) similar to flu are usually over within a day or two and yet the vaccine does not guarantee any immunity and the mid-long term health affects are inknown. Surely it makes perfect sense to trust your natural immune system with all the benefits that natural immunity brings than to put your trust in some experimental vaccine that has a higher chance of seriously harming you than the actual virus its supposed to be protecting you against.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

Dr Robert Malone seemed to be of that view when I watched him. Though his belief that a member of the FDA had integrity was a surprise to me – we will see.

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isobar
isobar
4 years ago

I don’t know what jab he had but I do know personally someone who is subsequently confined to a wheelchair, retirement plans in ruins.

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Paul B
Paul B
4 years ago
Reply to  isobar

A friend of a friend is dead, healthy young man in stowmarket. I’m sure there are many many more.

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isobar
isobar
4 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

Many condolences!

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NonCompliant
NonCompliant
4 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

Guy at work died out of the blue, looked late 40’s, early 50’s. First thing I asked was ‘was he vaccinated’ but I got crickets, most likely because everyone else on the call is on the Vax Train now, locked and loaded.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  isobar

If they have the strength, these people need to talk to those who will protect others by sharing their stories with the world.

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Paul B
Paul B
4 years ago
Reply to  Sandra Barwick

Sorry, it was in the Mail I think, not a quiet family thing. I work with someone who knew him well. I feel sorry for them but I have little sympathy. Every jab is a nail in all our coffins of freedom.

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Mike Yeadon
Mike Yeadon
4 years ago
Reply to  isobar

I know of four vaccine associated deaths through contacts out of my family alone,
Rumours of more.
Just 2 covid19 related deaths.

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Silke David
Silke David
4 years ago

It surprised me that The Mail wrote about these four, as another commenter already said, there are nearly 300 incidents already reported to the yellow card.
But I guess we need to be glad they pick it up and it might alert some people not to risk an injection, or the stupid doctors who keep sending people home after they complain of onset of symptoms as hypochondriacs and then develop life changing complications due to no treatment.

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Paul B
Paul B
4 years ago

A friend who had a Pfizer recently has just given blood, that can’t be right surely?!

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marebobowl
marebobowl
4 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

If you need a blood transfusion, be very careful.

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Londo Mollari
Londo Mollari
4 years ago

https://thecovidblog.com/2021/06/11/paul-bainbridge-46-year-old-british-software-developer-continues-mocking-anti-vaxxers-after-developing-guillain-barre-syndrome-three-weeks-after-second-astrazeneca-shot/

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I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
4 years ago

Yes ….

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

Article is from April 2020.
But it wouldn’t surprise me if that is still his position.

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Mike Yeadon
Mike Yeadon
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

He’s been anti Vax & a conspiracy theorist for ages.

I now regard these people as prescient & people like me as career long gullible mugs

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Mike Yeadon

I think you are being too harsh on yourself Sir.

Your bravery is an inspiration to me at least.

Thank you.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

Vaccine hesitancy a growing phenomenon in USA. Finally.

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
4 years ago

Four people? Four people?

Don’t you mean TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY FOUR PEOPLE? And FOUR DEATHS from GBS?

That’s what the Yellow Card report says.

And that’s just for Astra Zeneca. There are also 38 cases with Pfizer (and two deaths) and one with Moderna.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/994381/COVID-19_AstraZenenca_Vaccine_Analysis_Print.pdf
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/994380/COVID-19_mRNA_Pfizer_BioNTech_Vaccine_Analysis_Print_9.06.2021.pdf
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/994382/COVID-19_Moderna_Vaccine_Analysis_Print_9.06.2021.pdf

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NonCompliant
NonCompliant
4 years ago

Nothing to see here.

Next !

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BeBopRockSteady
BeBopRockSteady
4 years ago

In October 2009, the US National Institutes of Health infectious diseases chief, Anthony Fauci, appeared on YouTube to reassure Americans about the safety of the “swine flu” vaccine. “The track record for serious adverse events is very good. It’s very, very, very rare that you ever see anything that’s associated with the vaccine that’s a serious event,”1 he said.

Pandemrix vaccine: why was the public not told of early warning signs? | The BMJ

Remember, this vaccine was pulled after 100 cases were brought against the government due to individuals developing narcolepsy.

How many times has Yellow Card numbers been mentioned in Parliament in relation to these vaccines?

Twice according to the record.

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babsiep
babsiep
4 years ago

The general population have already bought into the story ( or want to believe) that the injections are “safe”. Therefore anything short of a major, clear cut event shortly after the procedure will not register with them as an adverse event.

The unwillingness of recipients to attribute adverse events (we can’t have buyer remorse here), the ignorance of the Yellow Card scheme ( how do you make a report?) and the reluctance of the medical profession to rock the boat are all deep psychological barriers to full, honest reporting of these procedures.

The true story of adverse events will probably be hidden under the increased mortality figures and used to justify more lockdowns or blamed on the “anti vaxxers”.

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JohnK
JohnK
4 years ago
Reply to  babsiep

Which is why it’s worth fighting back, as much as possible, by all those concerned.

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LisaF
LisaF
4 years ago

Many more than four. Try a few hundred. As per Yellow Card reports.

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Amari
Amari
4 years ago

Six people have DIED from this according to the UK Yellow Card Data, 678 people effected.https://yellowcard.ukcolumn.org/yellow-card-reports#%5Bobject%20Object%5D

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marebobowl
marebobowl
4 years ago

So just another coincidence hey doc. And oh what a great idea to monitor adverse events and keep an eye on them. Perhaps it might have been smarter to finish the trial on these drugs before issuing an emergency use authorisation. Fools running our healthcare around the world!

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