Nicki Minaj goes full covidiot ... "My cousin's friend" ... "It was a dark and stormy night

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12. Just because someone reported it and it's in the database doesn't mean the vaccine caused it

Some patient who takes a medication, then later has some symptom they think could possibly be a side effect and reports it, it goes into the database.

Rarely, someone will later do a study to test if the reported side effects actually have anything to do with the medication, but usually not.

That's how every headache medication lists headache as a potential side effect because, duh.


Especially where there's no plausible medical explanation for how the side effect might be related to the medication, take the side effect listings with a large grain of salt because they're meant to be very, very broad to the point of including dubious claims like this one.