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Dec 8, 2023Liked by Aravind Mohanoor

VAERS/Shimabukuro also used the BC to evaluate anaphylaxis. This enabled them to exclude much of the anaphylaxis from the reporting set. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2776557 When you dig through this "report" it tells you that they used the BC to evaluate reports. In BC Anaphylaxis this is a 1-5 scale. They eliminated level 4 and 5 basically eliminating any report that said Anaphylaxis but gave no details (whether or not it was made by a HCW). It also meant that if anything was miscoded in the symptoms that was not considered either. I have one report in my slide deck that calls a clear case of Anaphylaxis---- wait for it.... Tongue Disorder... There are thousands of reports in VAERS where Anaphylaxis is clearly misclassified as tongue issues, throat swelling, itchiness etc... here is just one example: https://www.openvaers.com/vaersapp/report.php?vaers_id=903324 This is why OpenVAERS has an "anaphylaxis" number (currently 10+k) and a Severe Allergic Reaction number (currently 46+K).

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Do you know if they use this BC Levels scam for any other class of adverse events?

We now know they did this for Anaphylaxis and Myocarditis

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Dec 9, 2023Liked by Aravind Mohanoor

I dont but its likely. I would look at BC diagnostic scales exist and then look for papers or mmwrs that look at those issues. Keep in mind that most BC scales are not fully accepted, only proposals!

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Dec 8, 2023Liked by Aravind Mohanoor

9th century - the first medical school in the Western world opened in Salerno, Italy (Schola Medica Salernitana)

1895 - the first heart surgery performed (Oslo)

1979 - the first successful heart transplant (Cape Town) (“The surgeon who dared” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6062759/)

2023 - we still don’t know what “heart failure” means…

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