Jakarta (ANTARA) – The COVID-19 vaccine, in an upload on social media, is suspected of being one of the causes of the emergence of pandemic trauma or known as Post-Pandemic Stress Disorder (PPD).
A Twitter user with 27,800 followers, originally shared an article courtesy of website breitbart.com titled “Up to 300k New UK Heart Cases – Due to ‘Post-Pandemic Stress Disorder’.
The breitbart.com article says there are 300,000 patients in the UK now experiencing heart problems, as a result of the trauma of the pandemic.
The COVID-19 vaccine was also linked to the emergence of pandemic trauma by the Twitter user in his joke.
However, is it true that the COVID-19 vaccine causes pandemic trauma?
Explanation:
Tahir Hussain, a vascular surgeon at Northwick Park Hospital, UK, explained that the trauma of the pandemic was one of the adverse effects of the lockdown.lockdown).
Lockdown often lead to mental health problems and stress, decreased movement, and unhealthy lifestyle habits. It was this change in the rhythm of life that later presented PPSD.
Tahir Hussain added that there was no link between PPSD and heart conditions with the COVID-19 vaccine.
“There is no evidence that the COVID vaccine causes PPSD,” he said Reuters.
Professor of Immunology at Imperial College London Danny Altmann also explained that a study showed an increase in cases of blood clots, strokes, heart attacks and death, tended to be experienced by people who were not vaccinated and then infected with COVID-19, and not people who had been vaccinated.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccine evokes pandemic trauma
Rating: Disinformed
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