Before the COVID-19 era, for ages in medicine it has been said: “Syphilis is often referred to as “the great masquerader,” as it may present with a wide array of clinical symptoms and may mimic a variety of other diseases making diagnosis challenging.” There is no doubt that COVID-19 vaccine injury syndromes will far eclipse syphilis, sarcoidosis, amyloidosis, or any other systemic disorder and will assume the throne of “the great masquerader”.
As an example of how distorted authors and editors have become over papers on COVID-19 vaccination, in the abstract of the authors state that COVID-19 vaccination remains the ”only weapon” we have against the illness. Complete ignorance of the entire field of early treatment of SARS-CoV-2 will be forever to their chagrin upon later reflection. More worrisome, the authors state that prior neurologic disease is not a reason to withhold vaccination.
I can tell you as senior and experienced academic physician, that indeed the authors and the editors who accepted this paper are demonstrating poor medical judgement. Good physicians would never have a patient with neurologic disease, for example Guillain-Barre Syndrome or multiple sclerosis, and then administer a novel genetic biological product known to cause further neurologic damage and risk worsened disability and death. Authors and historians will revisit these words and well up remorse and sadness for patients who have suffered under this profound lapse of medical judgement.
If you have a neurologic disorder shown in the figure that is new or worsened after COVID-19 vaccination, pay a visit to your doctor, and point it out. Tell them it wasn’t worth it. That for you the risks of the vaccine did not outweigh the failed theoretical benefits for an easily treatable upper respiratory illness.
