Elon Musk said he felt like he was “dying” after his second COVID-19 booster shot.
“I had severe side effects from my second booster shot,” the new Twitter boss wrote in a social media post. “I felt like I was dying for several days. Hopefully no permanent damage, but I don’t know.”
Musk provided no medical documentation to support his claim. He also didn’t say which company’s COVID booster he took.
The Epoch Times cannot independently verify his claim.
Moderna and Pfizer did not respond to requests for comment at the time of the article’s publication.
He took Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine and the first mRNA booster with no side effects, Musk said.
Musk released a series of Twitter posts in response to a Rasmussen Reports post criticizing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) account that serious side effects after the COVID vaccine are “rare.”
Americans link COVID vaccines to mysterious deaths
A new Rasmussen Reports poll released Jan. 2, based on a representative sample of 1,000 American adults, shows nearly half of Americans believe the COVID-19 vaccines are likely to cause a “significant number of unexplained deaths.” caused, while more than a quarter said they personally knew someone whose death might have been caused by vaccine side effects.
Pollsters asked people a series of questions, including whether they got the COVID-19 vaccine and how likely it is that the vaccine’s side effects “have caused a significant number of unexplained deaths.”
49 percent of respondents said they think it is “probable” that the side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine are responsible for a significant number of unexplained deaths.
A large majority (71 percent) said they had been vaccinated against COVID-19 themselves, with 38 percent of respondents believing the vaccine’s side effects accounted for at least some possibility of unexplained deaths.
A nurse administers a COVID-19 vaccine booster to a person at a hospital in Hines, Illinois, April 1, 2022. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Of the 26 percent who said they hadn’t been bitten, 77 percent said it was at least somewhat likely that the vaccine’s side effects caused a significant number of mysterious deaths, the survey found.
Another question was whether people believe there are “legitimate reasons” to be concerned about COVID-19 vaccine safety, or whether people who are concerned about vaccine safety are “spreading conspiracy theories” .
48 percent of respondents said they think there are legitimate reasons to be concerned about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, 37 percent believe people concerned about this issue are spreading conspiracy theories, and 15 percent are not sure.
Tom Ozimek contributed to this report.