Tinnitus, or ringing in the ears, has emerged as another adverse event following COVID-19 shots. Even a scientific adviser for Big Pharma developed it after his COVID-19 shot and says it gets so bad, “I could just scream.”
STORY AT-A-GLANCE At least 16,183 people say they’ve developed tinnitus after receiving a COVID-19 shot, and this is likely an underestimate.
Dr. Konstantina Stankovic, director of the Stanford Medicine Molecular Neurotology Laboratory, is leading research to uncover how COVID-19 and COVID-19 shots may be affecting auditory function and triggering tinnitus. She says her email is bombarded with reports from people who developed tinnitus after getting a COVID-19 shot.
Dr. Gregory Poland, director of the Mayo Clinic’s Vaccine Research Group in Rochester, Minnesota, also developed tinnitus after a COVID-19 shot—he’s been suffering from tinnitus for two years as a result and says he receives emails nearly every day from people with similar stories.
Molecular mimicry, which occurs when similarities between different antigens confuse the immune system, is one potential mechanism that could explain the link between COVID-19 shots and tinnitus. At least 16,183 people say they’ve developed tinnitus after receiving a COVID-19 shot.1,2 The reports were filed with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database. But considering only between 1 percent 3 and 10 percent4 of adverse reactions are ever reported to VAERS, the actual number is likely much higher….