'Scientific evidence refutes that Covid vaccines are responsible for sudden deaths': Medical expert
NEW DELHI: Medical experts have rejected allegations that Covid-19 vaccines are responsible for a recent spike in heart attack-related deaths, following comments made by Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah regarding over twenty such deaths in Hassan district.
Speaking to ANI, Dr Mohit Gupta, Professor of Cardiology, GB Pant Hospital, said that findings from a study conducted on 1,600 heart attack patients showed a protective benefit of the Covid-19 vaccines.
He said, "In our own study on 1,600 patients with heart attacks who had received the Covid vaccine and those who had not received it. We found that those who have received the Covid vaccine not only have lower chances of having a heart attack, all-cause mortality and sudden deaths, but also, following them for 30 days and 6 months, the chances of death of those people are significantly reduced."
"The Covid-19 vaccine is harmless and also plays a protective role. This study is not only ours; ICMR has also validated this. Multiple hospitals have conducted big studies on this. A Korean study on around 2 lakh people replicated the same results. The US Covid Collaboration replicated similar results. In our study, we took both the Covid vaccines and similar results were shown for both the Covaxin and Covishield," he added.
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Refuting any linkage between cardiac deaths and Covid vaccines, Dr Gupta said that scientific evidence refutes that Covid vaccines are responsible for sudden deaths.
The doctor stated, "This is a sudden hype. If we see practically too, then we have given this vaccine all over the country, so if that is the case, there will be clustering, multiple deaths will be reported from different parts of the country, which will be significantly increased, but in the last 5 years, nothing such has happened.
Suddenly, if there are 4-5 cases and if we think that is because of the vaccine, then no. there are multiple reasons of sudden cardiac death.
.. I think we really has to be think over... Scientific evidence refutes that Covid vaccines are responsible for sudden deaths..."
Earlier, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, the Executive Chairperson of Biocon Limited echoed similar sentiments and refuted the allegation of the Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, in which he attributed more than twenty deaths due to heart attacks in the past one month in district of Hassan to Covid vaccines.
She said that it was factually incorrect to suggest that Covid vaccines were hastily approved.
Earlier in a post on X, CM Siddaramaiah shared that in the past month, in just one district of Hassan, more than twenty people died due to heart attacks.
CM Siddaramaiah said, "In the past month alone, in just one district of Hassan, more than twenty people have died due to heart attacks. The government is taking this matter very seriously.
To identify the exact cause of these series of deaths and to find solutions, a committee of experts has been formed under the leadership of Dr. Ravindranath, Director of Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, and they have been instructed to submit a study report within 10 days.
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He further said that orders were given to this same committee back in February to conduct a thorough study on the reasons behind sudden deaths among young people in the state, and whether the Covid vaccines could have any adverse effects.
In this regard, the process of examining and analysing heart patients is also underway.
On July 2, a press release by the Union Health Ministry said that studies by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) have established that there is no direct link between Covid-19 vaccination and the reports of sudden deaths in the country.
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