COVID vaccine syringe aspiration — even the basics got screwed up

© 2022 Peter Free

 

20 February 2022

 

 

What follows refers to Dr. John Campbell's (PhD nursing) worthy warning . . .

 

. . . regarding proper COVID-19 vaccine injection technique:

 

 

Dr. John Campbell, Please send to politicians, YouTube (19 February 2022)

 

 

What is vaccine-syringe aspiration?

 

Aspiration means first pulling the syringe plunger upward to see whether any blood (arterial or venous) enters the needle from the patient.

 

If blood does enter the vaccination syringe, the medical worker knows that the needle has (improperly) entered a vein or an artery. See the above video demonstration at 6:50 minutes.

 

 

If the vaccine-giver sees blood, injection is not done — meaning that the syringe plunger is not pushed in.

 

Instead, the needle is withdrawn, so as to retry at a slightly different anatomical point.

 

 

This was the routine injection process, during my own medical training (not all that long ago).

 

 

Can we blame the World Health Organization for the new sloppiness?

 

According to Campbell — who has always been an advocate of properly aspirating a syringe before injecting vaccine — the WHO recommended against doing so in pediatric vaccinations some years ago.

 

This recommendation afterward extrapolated itself (according to Campbell) to include adults in Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

 

See his above video at 07:10 minutes.

 

This newly institutionalized carelessness arguably resulted in significant medical problems for at least some COVID vaccine recipients.

 

Those problems (in addition to rare clotting and thrombotic disorders) were, we can tentatively hypothesize, made worse by the following two factors:

 

 

COVID vaccines cause myocarditis in some demographic groups. At much higher than the background rate.

 

See, for instance:

 

 

Matthew E. Oster, David K. Shay, John R. Su, et al, Myocarditis Cases Reported after mRNA-Based COVID-19 Vaccination in the US From December 2020 to August 2021, JAMA, 327(4): 331-340, doi:10.1001/jama.2021.24110 (25 January 2022)

 

 

Keep in mind that this cardiac complication is certainly underreported — probably grossly, given the passive, obtusely worded and explained reporting systems involved, like VAERS.

 

Additionally, undegraded mRNA vaccines (and the spike proteins that they are designed to create) evidently linger much longer than anticipated in at least some patients.

 

See:

 

 

Katharina Röltgen, Sandra C. A. Nielsen, Oscar Silva, Sheren F. Younes, Maxim Zaslavsky, Cristina Costales, Fan Yang, Oliver F. Wirz, Daniel Solis, Ramona A. Hoh, Aihui Wang, Prabhu S. Arunachalam, Deana Colburg, Shuchun Zhao, Emily Haraguchi, Alexandra S. Lee, Mihir M. Shah, Monali Manohar, Iris Chang, Fei Gao, Vamsee Mallajosyula, Chunfeng Li, James Liu, Massa J. Shoura, Sayantani B. Sindher, Ella Parsons, Naranjargal J. Dashdorj, Naranbaatar D. Dashdorj, Robert Monroe, Geidy E. Serrano, Thomas G.Beach, R. Sharon Chinthrajah, Gregory W. Charville, James L. Wilbur, Jacob N. Wohlstadter, Mark M.Davis, Bali Pulendran, Megan L. Troxell, George B. Sigal, Yasodha Natkunam, Benjamin A. Pinsky, Kari C. Nadeau and Scott D. Boyd, Immune imprinting, breadth of variant recognition, and germinal center response in human SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination, Cell, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2022.01.018 (24 January 2022) (at pages 1 and 2)

 

 

Consequently, one would think that public health institutions would have foreseen that it would be wise to aspirate syringes before COVID vaccines are injected.

 

This safety precaution being taken so as to reduce directly delivering vaccines to anatomical regions, where they might cause additional problems that are presumably avoided via purely intramuscular injection.

 

We can conclude that foresight and caution were 'steps too far' for most of the developed Western world. With Denmark, and now Germany, being thoughtful exceptions.

 

 

Britain — as an example of US-like facts denial

 

When Dr. Campbell brought the non-aspiration injection problem to the British government's attention in early June 2021, he received the following reply — see the video at 16:50 minutes:

 

 

There is no need to pull back on the plunger (aspirate) before the plunger is depressed to release the vaccine into the muscle because there are no large blood vessels at the recommended injection sites.

 

 

As Campbell points out, even anatomy books make it clear that this government statement is blatantly wrong. Furthermore, even common sense indicates that muscle tissue always has an active blood supply.

 

The British government's inane response is, to my mind, typical of the evidence-lacking stupidity that has characterized most of the West's response to SARS-CoV-2.

 

On the purely pragmatic (efficiency) side, one wonders exactly what public health delivery loses by adding just 2 or 3 seconds to the vaccine injection times that are required.

 

COVID is not an infection characterized by the presumed danger posed by the loss of 2 to 3 seconds in vaccine-giving. Even when those seconds are multiplied out across populations. Far more time has been lost to administrative and location inefficiencies in providing the vaccines.

 

In short, any argument based on the alleged inefficiency posed by the few seconds lost by properly aspirating vaccine injecting needles is based upon a combination of mindless hysteria and outright fact-denial.

 

 

The moral? — Facts and scientific methodology, who needs those?

 

The above (and voluminous additional data) reveals that COVID has demonstrated the anti-scientific worthlessness of most of the West's politically infiltrated public health agencies.

 

My recent comment about monkeys in charge stands.