EMS executive suffers stroke after COVID-19 injections

Israel's Hatzalah Beit Shemesh Director of Operations David Cohen last week revealed that he suffered a stroke after taking the COVID-19 injections, and believes the two events may be correlated. Cohen, who had three doses of the Pfizer injection, says he suffered a spontaneous cerebral hemorrhage.

“The reason I think [the stroke] is from the vaccine is because I’m 45-years-old and I’ve heard of 30- and 40-year-old people having strokes,” Cohen told America’s Frontline News. “Now I do have a history of high blood pressure...but I mean I think there’s a certain correlation.” 

“I’m not sure a thousand percent,” the emergency medical chief qualified, “and I think it would be fake news to even say that it is a hundred percent.” 

Indeed, while Vaccine Adverse Events Report System (VAERS) data appear to show an 11,361% increase in strokes from the COVID-19 vaccine compared to other vaccines, a study correlating the two events has yet to be done.

In its Cumulative Analysis of Post-Authorization Adverse Events Reports, Pfizer analyzes 42,086 adverse events from the COVID vaccine up to February 28, 2021. Of those events, Pfizer reports 300 cases of cerebrovascular venous and sinus thrombosis (CVST), which make up roughly 0.71% of the overall cases. 

Pfizer records that 61 of the CVST cases were fatal, 61 were resolved/resolving, 10 were resolved with sequelae – where the illness leaves behind a lasting condition – 85 were not resolved and 83 were unknown. 

Last year, several California nurses blew the whistle after witnessing an alarming rise in strokes, blood clots and cardiac events, though there remains a lack of hard data connecting strokes to the shots. 

Cardiac events, on the other hand, have already been established as an adverse event of the injections. A peer-reviewed study of EMS calls in Israel between 2019-2021 found that a 25% rise in cardiac events among people under 40 was directly correlated to the COVID-19 shots.

EMS organizations were at the forefront of the vaccine mandate last year. United Hatzalah, one of Israel's two main emergency response organizations, took pride in being the first to mandate “no jab, no job.”

Last year, United Hatzalah Founder and President Eli Be’er said he wanted Hatzalah to be “the first national organization that is 100% vaccinated.” 

“I don’t see this as controversial,” said Be’er, according to Israel National News. “I see it as our duty in saving lives. As medical personnel and first responders, we are at risk, and we can endanger others if we aren't vaccinated. We’ve had a number of volunteers in the past contract the virus because they responded to an emergency prior to the vaccines being available and in spite of the precautions they took. I don’t want any of our volunteers getting sick, or their families getting sick. G-d forbid I don’t want any of our volunteers passing the virus on to a patient either.

“Volunteers who do not have the vaccine, will not be allowed to respond to any respiratory emergencies, any emergency where someone in the home is in isolation or sick with the disease, or any emergency involving a fever, as well as others,” Be’er added. “I myself have already received both vaccines even though I already had the virus. I’ve personally experienced what this virus can do to someone and how terrible it is. The damage that can be caused by an unvaccinated person passing on the virus is unfathomable, and I don’t want our volunteers to be responsible for that.”

Be’er, whowas nominated by Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan to be one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders in 2012, appeared to base his mandate on the false assumption that the injections prevented infection and transmission.