Hundreds of Britons reported injuries from getting tested for Covid, official data show. MailOnline has the story.
Dozens say they’ve fainted or choked while swabbing, while others have complained about nose bleeds and hot flashes. Drug regulators tasked with policing the safety of virus tests have logged over 3,000 reports of harm throughout the pandemic.
The figures, obtained by MailOnline through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, are only a “snapshot”, however. Thousands more people will have hurt themselves while using lateral flows or taking swabs because not everyone reports their experiences, experts say. And the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, the body in charge of safety monitoring, also insist the swabs won’t have definitely been to blame in the few cases that have been logged.
In a similar fashion to how side effects from the Covid vaccines are tracked, officials ask everyone to record any incidents that occur from getting tested. The MHRA encourages people to report any safety concerns with the tests and give feedback, such as if it is damaged or components are missing. It then investigates any serious problems and logs them, to prevent similar incidents in the future.
More than 500million tests have been conducted in the U.K. since the start of the Covid pandemic, with the now-axed scheme costing up to £2bn per month at the height of the Omicron wave.
At least 3,443 complaints were logged about Covid tests by April 7th, according to the MHRA data. Of these, 1,013 complaints were logged about lateral flow swabs. At least 177 said they suffered “minor” harm when using the tests, while between 39 and 69 reported “serious” harm. Uncertainty around the figures – collected monthly – are due to the watchdog not providing exact numbers when fewer than five people report a specific type of incident.
The vast majority of complaints did not give sufficient information about the harms caused by tests. But allergic reactions to components of the test and choking were the most common incidents reported. Britons also complained of headaches, a bleeding nose, respiratory tract infections, sore throats, hot flushes, skin inflammation and swelling. Between one and four deaths were logged.
The MHRA said the reporting of an adverse testing incident in its database “does not necessarily mean the events described were caused by that medical device”. The agency added that it “could be due to unrelated patient/user factors”.
A spokesperson said: “The information we hold on our database is not a full picture of all the device-related incidents that happened during this period, it is just a snapshot. It’s not compulsory for healthcare professionals and members of the public to report incidents directly to MHRA, but we strongly encourage this.”
Meanwhile, 2,430 people made a complaint to the watchdog after taking a PCR test. Of these reports, at least 261 logged minor harms, while 78 reported serious harm. The harms reported included allergic reactions, choking and nose bleeding. Britons also said they suffered sore throats, loss of consciousness and “emotional changes” after taking PCR tests. A handful of cases of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – a lung condition that causes breathing difficulties – and joint dislocation were also logged with the MHRA, along with sneezing and vomiting. And between three and 12 deaths were reported to the MHRA that members of the public linked with PCR tests.
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It’s quite simple, you can’t ‘test positive’ if you don’t get tested. Never have, never will.
The real damage from testing is the obsession with it and the impact on personal lives, work and society, and of course the crass, evil waste of money.
Those that test at home are very damaged goods. They are likely jabbed and so are already living on borrowed time.
This is woefully inaccurate and irresponsibly dismissive. While I don’t disagree with the wider issues you mention, there are far more aspects to the physical dangers of testing than you seem prepared to acknowledge, and as such this ATL article is LONG overdue. Roll back 14 months to 1st February 2021 when former nurse Debi Evans SRN was interviewed by UK column, and expressed serious concern about how “potentially dangerous” the “very invasive” nasal swabs (the “nose being the gateway to the brain”) could be.
The interview starts at around 34m 15s in, and maybe NOT for the squeamish.
Quite accurate BFF. Thanks for finding the interview. There is no reason to use an invasive and risky nasal swab test, saliva is quite adequate. It is either for theatre or to do real harm to the public.
The whole coronavirus “pandemic” and everything associated with it has been an exercise in sadism.
‘The whole coronavirus “pandemic” and everything associated with it has been an exercise in sadism.’
Yes it really has.
And masochism.
Masochist: Hit me!
Sadist: No!
Darn tootin’
In my view it has been an exercise in subjugation, the sadism bit is just a fringe benefit for many of those doing the subjugation. It certainly has answered those earnest enquiries posed on Moral Maze type shows over the decades since WW2 such as:
Q. Where did the Nazis find so many torturers?
A. They were living next door to their victims all the time!!
I agree with what you say about saliva. There was plenty of time to devise a test to be widely used (if one were needed) that was not invasive, yet it seems nothing at all was done to replace these nasty procedures. Yet the thralls just went alone with it – still are.
”ALONG” of course.
I’m a victim of pcr/covid testing as a healthcare worker that went too far on9/11/2020. Broke my blood brain barrier, ethylene oxide poisoning hit my central nervous system that collapsed, I still suffer, this is me today.
https://twitter.com/AngelEisenmann
There’s no
around your comment which suggests this is your own statement. If so I’m really so sorry to hear that EBG, and I think it brave of you to come forward.
If not then the same sentiment applies for @AngelEisenmann on Twitter.
There has to be accountability for this wholly unnecessary Big Pharma induced, government approved, mass Covid panic at some point.
Sorry, no, not me…never done one thank goodness…just an example taken from Twitter…..Sorry for the confusion, but thanks for the kind words anyway….just feel so sorry for Angel her life has been ruined, and as you say, for what?
The behavioural psychopaths have been cunning in the extreme. It’s a special type of evil that has contrived all this.
Like so much of the last two years this was yet another piece of theatre designed to support a narrative.
I think the scale of distortion in our society is so great that most cannot accept these things as false i.e. the notion we would introduce useless tests to maintain a fictonal story of mass death that clearly did not materialize.
The lie is so great it has become difficult to persuade even intelligent people.
The lie was so great that many more influential people could have spoken out with no effect. I don’t think there were that many people actively trying to mislead. It just became a snowball that precious few could stop.
Puzzled.
If they suffered that last listed ‘side effect’ (death), how did they file a report?
Just a hunch, but maybe a surviving relative filed a report on the deceased’s behalf.
Nicely worked out.
Well they don’t call me Philip Marlow for nothing and I don’t care who knows it.
I want you in charge of the enquiry, Beowulf. We need someone with experience of slaying monsters after all.
Well they also call me Beowulf the Geat, at least it sounds like Geat, but I’m no linguist. Ok I’ll take the case. I’m broke and I’ve been rubbing a couple of 50 pence coins together for a month, hoping they’ll mate.
What pronouns do they prefer? Might provide a hint.
Well Phil, it actually needed to be said and thankfully you stepped up to the mark.
The MHRA said the reporting of an adverse testing incident in its database “does not necessarily mean the events described were caused by that medical device”. The agency added that it “could be due to unrelated patient/user factors”.
If a patient/user says that an adverse reaction was the result of a test, then it was, unless the MHRA can prove otherwise.
If someone dies after being hit by a car while they were crossing the road then they were killed as a result of a road accident. It might be that driver was a Mafia hitman and the accident was no accident, but that would need to be demonstrated not flagged as a possibility.
The MHRA is just trying to avoid the bloody obvious.
I know somebody who was getting nose bleeds from putting a cotton bud up their nose every day and thought the reason why they kept testing positive was because of the blood.
Yesterday I met somebody with some sort of respiratory disorder and was very proud of the fact that he had had 5 vaccine jabs.
There’s no cure for stupid.
The cure for stupid is the sixth jab. Be patient
Dr Fow Chi explains why you need more shots…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5pRacFfkzM
Five jabs!!
Blimey!
I’ve been swabbing anally for over a year now and have suffered none of the above side effects.
It has even had the added bonus of limbering up muscles that otherwise went unstretched, and I feel healthier as a result.
It is precisely that commitment to the common good that is lacking in the youth. You are an inspiration.
“It then investigates any serious problems and logs them, to prevent similar incidents in the future.”
Like with jab adverse effects, they do absolutely nothing whatsoever to prevent harm.
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If it’s disinformation, it has been done incredibly well. So many Covid anomalies are explained by this ‘venom theory’. Right now I don’t really know what to make of it.
I’d be inclined to seek a 2nd. and 3rd. opinion no matter what the source is/was.
It worked OK with Dr Mike Yeadon, Prof Sucharit Bhakdi, Dr Robert Malone and others. These three experts slowly fell into line, concluding that this is unlikely to be a cockup, i.e. it seems more malign than that.
Oh? I may have to revisit my assessment of these people’s competence.
From being a child, it was always the rule, never shove anything up your nose
Not even Coco-Puffs?
Or crayons.
Yes, but try telling that to white powder Gove!
That’s not the only place he’s shoving foreign objects
This is 2022. That kind of olfactory discrimination is no longer tolerated.
The government instruction on how to do LFTs are quite telling here: They explicitly state that people still suffering from nose bleeds because of their last test should use the other nostril for their current test.
Perhaps it would have been safer sticking them up the other end, and got better results?
Well, yes – but it is many thousands, not hundreds or dozens!
Nasal swabs have always been taken horizontally pre-covid. They were not done by lay-people who invariably push them up into the turbinates and Little’s area where everything is sensitive and vulnerable.
Of course, nobody was interested in telling the public that during mass-testing, any more than they were interested in the legitimacy or the screening itself. Or how face masks were worn. It was all virtue signalling with adverse effects.
It’s the fact that ‘lay people’ are being allowed to do this to children that’s so abbhorent.
It’s all hogwash, low lifes after compo.
Another tentacle of covid’s monstrous criminality.
If it destroys one life…
…it’s a failure. It should be destroying thousands.
I had nosebleeds for one month post PCR and lateral flow tests done at airports.
That anyone would voluntarily stab something up their nose is astounding – so it must be part of the brainwashing that comes with the jab. I wonder how many unjabbed ‘test’ voluntarily.
I’m going in for an important medical procedure soon and am told I must have a test. I absolutely do not want it and have made that clear, but there is no choice. I will ask if I can have a saliva test instead – but rules is rules.