The COVID-19 vaccination is once again at the center of controversy as some Americans claim that the inoculation caused them to get the condition of tinnitus. However, there is no proof that vaccines are to blame for the health problem, just as prior similar claims.
When an ear ringing cannot be attributed to outside factors, it is called tinnitus. Shaowen Bao, an associate professor in the physiology department of the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona, Tucson, was persuaded to investigate the relationship by people who claim to have experienced the issue after receiving the Covid vaccine after forming a Facebook group.
According to Bao, continuous inflammation, particularly in the brain or spinal cord, maybe the cause of the ringing in the ears. He serves as a member of the scientific advisory board for the American Tinnitus Association.
80% of the patients had tinnitus following the first dose of the vaccination
Bao discovered that the condition was particularly severe in some people when he began to look into if the two are connected in any way. One man reported that he could not hear the radio in his car because of the loudness in his brain. Bao also observed that 80% of the patients had tinnitus following the first dose of the vaccination.
Patients also reported experiencing headaches, vertigo, vertigo-like symptoms, ear pain, anxiety, and sadness in addition to ringing in the ears.
At least 16,183 complaints have been made to the CDC by patients who claim to have had tinnitus after receiving a Covid injection. However, the CDC claims that it “did not find any data suggesting a link between COVID-19 vaccines and tinnitus” in their internal reviews.
Tinnitus affects 25% of adults in the US
The reviews have not been made public, unlike one of the vaccine’s purported negative effects, heart inflammation. The founder and director of the Mayo Clinic’s Vaccine Investigation Group in Rochester, Minnesota, and an expert on vaccines, Dr. Gregory Poland, is not pleased that the CDC did not undertake enough investigation into the issue. He is only one of several individuals who claim that the immunization gave them tinnitus. The CDC has come under fire from Poland for continuing to act “unconcerned” over tinnitus claims.
The term “phantom noise” refers to tinnitus. This indicates that the sound the patient is hearing cannot be heard by anyone else. Tinnitus affects 25% of adults in the US and can even impact children. Numerous factors, including aging-related hearing loss, drugs, ear infections, and high blood pressure, can cause it. In addition to the Covid vaccine, complaints of tinnitus following various vaccinations and infections have been recorded, according to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System of the CDC.
Poland thinks that tinnitus is brought on by the spike protein of the virus. In fact, he claims that it is also causing other kinds of mayhem in the body.
“After mRNA vaccines, there is some level of spike protein that circulates,” Poland said. Could it be much like the spike protein in the heart that leads to myocarditis? Could the same thing happen in the inner ear?” he told NBC.