La Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital epidemiologic unit head Professor Eric Caumes does not wish to get the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine inoculated. The professor thinks, after reading the data released by the Pfizer laboratory on the vaccine, that the adverse effects are too severe. “I’ve never seen such a high rate of side effects for a vaccine”, he says.
Yet, Eric Caumes defends himself from any conspiracy-theory accusation: he tells Le Parisien that “I’m one of those promoting vaccine the most. […] I’m even convinced vaccine is the only think that can get ourselves out of a bind” he says on LCI. The professor explains he trusts AstraZeneca vaccine and even the Chinese vaccine more than the Pfizer one.
When reading data made available by Pfizer, La Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital epidemiologic unit head started to worry. “There may be a problem in the Pfizer vaccine”, Caumes thinks. “The rate of adverse effects is exceptionally high. There are more side effects in young people than elderly people, and even more after the second dose than the first one”. Data from the Pfizer laboratory report many side effects. “15.8% of people aged 18-55 have had a 38°C+ [fever] within the seven days following the second injection. And 45% of them had to take medicine against fever or pain. 55% of people got a headache, 62% fatigue” professor Caumes lists to Le Parisien.
10 December 2020
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