KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 — The Covid-19 vaccine taken years ago isn’t the cause of chronic diseases as side effects from vaccination are extremely short-term, medical experts told Malaysians.
Amid a non-communicable disease (NCD) crisis of diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol in the country, many Malaysians now are drawing connections between their current health issues and the Covid-19 shots they received years ago, instead of attributing their conditions to poor lifestyle habits.
“The effects of the vaccine were usually felt immediately or were in two to three weeks of the vaccination. Thereafter, there has been no biological mechanism identified that can lead to further downstream effects,” Dr Leong Hoe Nam, an infectious disease specialist at Mt Elizabeth…