Sore Arm After COVID-19 Vaccine Could Indicate Serious Complication: Doctor

According to cardiologist Peter A. McCullough, people who have a sore arm after receiving a COVID-19 shot may be at risk of developing cardiac problems.

“I always ask patients if they had a sore arm or if they had a more severe reaction within a few days of the shot.” “It could be a precursor to future cardiovascular serious adverse events, such as myocarditis and sudden cardiac death,” Dr. McCullough wrote in an Oct. 27 Substack post. Myocarditis is an inflammation of the myocardium, a heart muscle, that can impair the heart’s ability to pump blood. Dr. McCullough cited a Sept. 19 study published in the journal Radiology in which 458 of 700 participants, or 65.4 percent, reported arm pain after COVID-19 vaccination.
“The myocardial visual score was higher in patients who reported a sore arm compared with those who did not,” the authors of the study stated. The study’s participants were “competitive and recreational athletes” from Italy.

The cardiologist cited a Taylor & Francis study published on July 20 that found this specific pain in the majority of participants who received COVID-19 vaccination.
After receiving the first dose of a COVID-19 shot, 81.3 percent of the 460 participants in the study reported arm pain at the injection site. 24.9 percent reported arm pain after the second dose. “Male gender was more likely to present arm pain after the first and the second vaccinations,” according to the study.

“In our study population, arm pain was inversely associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection before vaccination.” Athletes with a history of COVID-19 infection were found to be “less likely to present arm pain after the first-dose vaccination.”

Dr. McCullough cited a November 2022 study that examined autopsy data from 25 people who “died unexpectedly” within 20 days of receiving COVID-19 vaccination.
Five people in the study received mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and died within a week of receiving them. Four people died after the first injection, and one died after the second.

The researchers discovered vaccine-induced inflammation in the heart muscles as well as the deltoid muscles that crown the shoulder. The inflammation was discovered in the epicardium, the organ’s outermost protective layer located above the myocardium.

“Myocarditis can be a potentially lethal complication following mRNA-based anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccination,” the study’s authors wrote.

Cardiac Problems

Dr. McCullough also cited a December 2022 report published by the National Library of Medicine that raised awareness of the issue of rising cardiac arrests among athletes.
According to the study, “from January 2021 to the time of writing, 1,598 athletes suffered cardiac arrest, 1,101 of which had a fatal outcome” over a two-year period.

This is a higher rate of death than the “1,101 athletes under the age of 35 died (29/years) due to various heartrelated conditions” between 1966 and 2004.

According to another study on 301 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 who received two doses of the Pfizer vaccine, “29.24 percent of participants experienced cardiovascular complications such [as] tachycardia, palpitations, and 2.33 percent suffered myopericarditis.”

“It is noteworthy that no statistically significant increase in the incidence of myocarditis or pericarditis was observed in un‐vaccinated subjects after SARS‐CoV‐2 infection, in a large population study.”

Dr. McCullough concluded from these studies that a sore arm can be a “harbinger of future cardiovascular serious adverse events.”

According to the cardiologist, he was “amazed at how many people who have taken one or more of the COVID-19 vaccines are completely free of side effects.” He speculated that many of the vaccine vials may have contained “little or no viable mRNA.”

The lack of viable mRNA implies that the spike protein “would not be produced within the injection side (deltoid muscle) or other tissues, which would explain a lack of side effects in the arm and elsewhere in the body,” he wrote.

Toxicity of mRNA

A German study published this month in the British Journal of Pharmacology found that both Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccines formed spike proteins in human heart cells 48 hours after injection. Pfizer and Moderna both caused different cell abnormalities.
Dr. McCullough responded to the study by suggesting that the different responses the cells had to the two mRNA vaccines could point to an mRNA toxicity reaction in these cells.

Despite studies indicating a risk of medical complications, some experts continue to recommend COVID-19 vaccinations. Both Pfizer and Moderna, according to John Hopkins Medicine, are “highly effective in preventing serious disease, hospitalization, and death from COVID-19.”

It advised people to get a COVID-19 vaccination because “we believe that their benefits outweigh their risks.”

Dr. McCullough, on the other hand, advises people to avoid it. “I am not recommending COVID-19 XBB.1.5 boosters, influenza, or respiratory syncytial virus vaccines for healthy adults or children,” he wrote in an Oct. 29 Substack post. “None of these vaccines are particularly compelling, and the conditions are easily treatable.”