In recent weeks, there have been several videos circulating on social media, such as Facebook, showing women violently shaking themselves after receiving the coronavirus vaccine. The videos focus on the cases of two people who claim to have received two different COVID-19 vaccines.
These videos have been marked with a red flag as part of efforts to Facebook to combat the fake news and misinformation in your News Feed. However, it is important to note that experts they have not verified vaccines as the cause of these women’s tremors. Furthermore, with more than 51 million doses of the vaccine administered worldwide, the symptoms described in these viral videos have not been noted by medical researchers as potential side effects.
One of the cases is that of Shawn Skelton, a woman from Indiana, United States, who claims to have suffered uncontrollable tremors after receiving the first dose of the vaccine. Modern. In one of his videos, Skelton is seen moaning on a bench. She claims to have received the vaccine on January 4 and that “on Thursday morning she was in full-body seizures.” However, since the video was released, Skelton has been treated and released from Deaconess Orthopedic Neuroscience hospital, according to the Evansville Courier & Press newspaper. Skelton says MRIs, CT scans and blood cultures came back no results, and doctors told her her problem is probably stress-related.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) notes that Skelton’s symptoms are not even expected or frequent in people who have received the vaccine.
Another case is that of Angelia Gipson Desselle, a woman from Louisiana, who in several videos is seen struggling to walk due to her violent tremors. Her son, Brant Griner, has promoted these videos on Facebook and has responded to critics.
However, Griner has not provided information about where her mother received the vaccine, where she was hospitalized or which doctors she spoke with.. Griner claims that after posting the videos, he has received criticism from many social media users, including some who he says have harassed him and his mother. Griner says his mother wants to prevent critics from harassing the medical professionals involved in his treatment.
This is me after 1 dose of Pfizer on 1/5/2021 in the hospital. I was a very healthy 45 year old who managed a surgery center. Two years later I am still having major issues pic.twitter.com/x026LRy6L8
— Angelia Desselle (@AngeliaDesselle) January 21, 2023
Checking the facts
Fake news fact-checking platform Politifact, part of the Poynter Institute and affiliated with fake news fact-checking group Truth Squad, tried to find the videos, but Desselle’s son deleted all the information from Facebook, saying that she and the others health professionals who care for her are “being harassed.” “My mother’s boss and (co-workers) are being harassed and she has asked me to delete all the videos and not speak to anyone else about it,” the son said in a message to a journalist who contacted him. .
Kevin Litten, spokesman for the Louisiana Department of HealthHe said state officials are not aware of anyone reporting severe seizures or neurological side effects caused by the vaccine. “We’ve only had one person who had a serious effect that warranted a hospitalization,” Litten said. “The symptom was gastrointestinal upset and dizziness. That person was treated and released.”
Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, who also sits on the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee, said he hasn’t heard of these kinds of suspected side effects. is associated with vaccines.
Elon Musk and his “important side effects”
The viralization of these videos has spread in recent days thanks to the fact that the owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, claimed to have suffered alleged side effects after the vaccine. At first, he did not explain exactly what he had, but he wrote on the social network: “I had major side effects with my second booster shot. I felt like I was dying for several days. Hopefully there won’t be permanent damage, but I don’t know.”
And in another tweet he put: “And my cousin, who is young and in excellent health, had a serious case of myocarditis. She had to go to the hospital”.
Later, in another tweet, clarified what its supposed severe side effects were: pain in the arm and a kind of strong flu. He did not add any further information on serious or long-term effects.
