I think that's an exercise in poor headline writing rather than poor journalism on CNN's part. The actual text of the story actually makes it kinda clear (to me, at least) that the test vax likely wasn't the cause of the adverse reaction.So if I'm reading this correctly, the patient had her first dose in June, second dose in mid August, she tripped while running in September AND THE NEXT DAY started feeling the symptoms that got worse to the point of hospitalization for what looked like a spinal/nerve issue and we still have people concerned that it was the vaccine that cause it? As Fauci said, it's something to note. It's something to jot down, and if similar symptoms occur in other patients, let's take a deeper look, but for now this seems silly to try to say it's the vaccine's fault. I'm sure the people that think it's the vaccine already are or were on the vaccines cause autism bandwagon.
Extremely irresponsible and potentially damaging trust in vaccines being developed. CNN should be ashamed.
During clinical trials, pharma companies are required to report every single adverse thing that happens to a patient in the trial, regardless of the presumed underlying cause. It can be determined after the fact that the medication/vaccine/etc contributed nothing to that reaction, but it still has to be disclosed. That's why when a trial for a med spans a full calendar year (e.g. 2 flu seasons), you'll pretty much always see in the advertising that side-effects include runny nose, fever, etc...... flu symptoms.