Experts debunk Covid vaccine-heart attack link, Row over religious profiling during Kanwar Yatra in UP

Name: Experts debunk Covid vaccine-heart attack link, Row over religious profiling during Kanwar Yatra in UP
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Description: Medical experts from AIIMS and other institutions have declared COVID-19 vaccines safe, dismissing claims linking them to heart attacks. They emphasised there is no scientific evidence connecting the vaccines to sudden cardiac arrests.

India Today

7/3/2025

Medical experts from AIIMS and other institutions have declared COVID-19 vaccines safe, dismissing claims linking them to heart attacks. They emphasised there is no scientific evidence connecting the vaccines to sudden cardiac arrests.

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00:00Shocking cover religious profiling

00:06Fringe groups identification drive

00:11Thaba staff told remove pants, provide ID

00:16Gopal aka Tajamul made to apologize

00:22Thaba worker speaks out on stripping

00:27Asked to act as Hindu to mislead ER3s

00:47Pant to taro template for cover root that is our top focus on Five Live

00:52It's religious profiling that we're putting the spotlight on as far as the covered yatra here is concerned

01:03We're getting you details of what's going on as far as the yatra is concerned

01:07The yatris are involved

01:08I'm Sneha Mordani, this is Five Live

01:11And we'll begin this edition with some news coming in from the national capital

01:21There seems to be some amount of relief perhaps inside for Delhi car owners with end of life vehicles to get some time to get some breather

01:31It's a statement that has come in from a minister in Delhi

01:34Where Parvesh Verma has said Delhi is facing problems

01:38Will approach air quality control body

01:40He said Delhi people are facing problems regarding end of life vehicles

01:44Delhi government will meet the CAQM regarding this

01:47There are a lot of problems regarding the ANPR camera

01:51I'm going straight across to Sushant Mehra for more details

01:55Sushant, just two days ago that this new ban was implemented

01:59In which he told us that the old cars, whether they are diesel or petrol cars

02:05They will not go to 10 or 15 years from the old cars

02:09But we know that Delhi people had a lot of problems with this

02:13What did the minister say in this moment?

02:15The government told us that the company was in a German company

02:21That the government was in the NBF

02:22Of course that we no longer need to get the petrol

02:24That it wasn't without the oil

02:26We think that the new redo is coming

02:28The government had a letter of CQM

02:30And the government had a letter of this

02:32It was going on to the meeting

02:34The government used to befortured

02:34And the government was going on to it

02:36The government used to get the system

02:38ANPR cameras installed

02:39It was put into the system

02:41As the government used to install the city

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03:13It will not be implemented until November.

03:18If the CXUM says that it will stop,

03:23then the government will stop.

03:27The government will say that if the vehicle's maintenance is good,

03:34the pollution level is not bad,

03:37the end of life should not be 15 or 10 years.

03:40The government will say that if the vehicle's maintenance is good,

03:47then the government will stop.

03:52But the government will say that the government will not be completed.

03:58The government will not be implemented.

04:00But the Supreme Court has done this in 2018.

04:05The government will say that the government will not be implemented in Delhi.

04:11The government will not be implemented.

04:14The government will say that we are doing this in Delhi.

04:19The government will not be implemented in 10 years.

04:23The government will say that in the public sector is not implemented in Lauren Peily.

04:26But the government will say that it will not be implemented in Delhi.

04:28However, the government will be implemented in the past.

04:30The government will say that some people can perform what their maintenance is made.

04:35But it will not be implemented in the past.

04:38Thank you very much.

05:08Thank you very much.

05:38Thank you very much.

06:08Thank you very much.

09:28He has made a lot of revenge in the public.

09:34Our government is on the side of the city.

09:42Our government is on the side of the city.

09:48We are talking about the city of CQM,

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10:16Oh my god Puri Jeeι ने आपको जानकारी दी कि स्था से डिली के अंदर कि आम आदमी पाइस्थी ने

10:28कि न्यू काई डीलर से मिलकर ज़्ली के अंदर लूट करी उसका मैं आपको इजिता जाता हूं द्रयान भी पढ़के सुनाऊंगा यह

10:37कि यह नोटिफिकेशन है गर्मेंट ऑफ नेशनल कैपिटल टेरिटरियो अफ दिल्ली ट्रांसपोर्ट डिपार्टमेंट बीस दो दो हजार चॉबिस को दिल्ली की सरकार ने नॉम्स बना दिये कि दिल्ली के लोगों की मेनत की कमाई की गाड़ियों को कैसे उठाया जाएगा

11:07जैसे औरंग जैप का फर्मान होता था उसी तरह का फर्मान दिल्ली की सरकार ने क्या जारी किया देंफोर्समेंट जल्ची शुड कंड़क्ट कॉंटिनूस इंफोर्समेंट ड्राइज वर फेजिंग आउट एंड अफ लाइफल्स फॉम पब्लिक प्लेसिस अफ दिल्ली �

11:37इंफोर्समेंट जल्ची एंड शाल भी हैंडिड ओवर टूदी और सीजर मीमों उनको इंपांड कर लिया जाएगा सीज कर लिया जाएगा देखिया तुखले की फर्मान क्यूं किया जा रहा है इसा दस साल तक दिल्ली की अकेली देश की ऐसी स्टेट है ऐसा डिस्टिक है

12:07और NGT को बताते और काम नेक करते जिससे दिल्ली का प्रोडिशन कम होता इसकी बजाए उन्होंने नए कार्ड डील्रों से पैसा लेकर उनसे लेंदिन किया और उस लेंदिन के एवज में एक कनून बना कर रख दिया यह देखिए अगली यहां तक ही नहीं रुके उन लो�

12:37देंदर वो कन्फर्मेशन नंबर डालकर और यह बताएगा कि मैं दिल्ली में क्या एंसीटी में भी नहीं चलाओंगा यह गाड़ी मतलब इनको एंसीटी की बीचिंता थी ठीक है

12:46इन्ड ऑफ लाइक वे शिड बी इंपाउंड वर सेकंड टाइम अगर पहली बार उसका चलान करेंगे लेकिन दूसरी बार तुशको वापस नहीं करेंगा उसकी काड़ी को इंपाउंड कर लेंगे और यहां तक कह दिया कि अगर को ट्रांसपॉर्ट वैकल होगा उसको तो

13:16हैं और सक्रैप के रेट भी टैक कर दिये 90 अब्वे परसेंट और दी फिलिस क्रैप

13:22कॉंपोनेंट जो है उसके तैथ गाड़ी को बहुत मुश्कल अगर उको नमस्रीज गाड़ी भी

13:27would be 90,000

13:40I am not going to be a camera in the video. I am not going to be a camera. I am not going to be a camera.

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15:00system cameras have been installed at most of the few stations the system lacks the realistic

15:04robustness required for such crucial system some of them are they are they are crucial issues related

15:11to technological glitch camera placement sensors not working speakers maniflection yes speakers

15:19be manipulated yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

15:25के साथ ही sensors की placement यह सब चलिंज इस है इसके साथ साथ यह

15:31integrated अगयर के डेटा के साथ अभी तक integrated भी नहीं हो पाए इसके

15:36साथ में इसमें यह इसमें और चलिंज आ रहा हमें वह है कि घ्रा तरण को और

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16:49हमने बताया कि किस तरह से PUC जो Pollution Under Control Certificate है उसको हम और मुश्तियती से जानकारी ले रहे हैं थर्ड पार्टी उसकी जानकारी लेके पिछली सरकार ने जो scandal उसमें भी किया था उस तरह का कुछ ना हो उसके लिए भी हमें पक्ता कदम उठा रहे हैं हमने ये भी बताया mandatory किया �

17:19माद्यम से अब साथ की जाएंगी ताकि PM 2.5 डस्ट जो है पार्टिकल्स ना बने और साथ में इनके साथ anti-smoke gun और water sprinklers भी integrated होंगे ताकि दिल्ली के वातावन को और स्वच किया जा सके हमने जानकारी दी कि 500 स्केर मीटर्स यूपर की जितने भी commercial हों residential हों कोई भी construction है उसको

17:49हमारे डेली pollution control के portal के उपर अपने आपको register करना ताकि वहां पर भी PM 2.5 को रोका जा सके वो नहां बड़े norms के मताबक रहे हैं हमने बताया कि हम

18:05preventing कदम उठा रहे हैं end of life vehicles के लिए कैसे हम जल्दी यह system develop कर रहे हैं जिससे end of life vehicles से पहले advancement उनको जानकारी दी जा सके एक महीना पहले तीन महीने पहले ताकि उनको पता हो कि उनने अपनी गाड़ी को यहां से remove करना है दूसरे state में अगर लजानी है यह सारी जानकारी का भी ह

18:35दिए प्रेशनित से टेक्नालिजी के मातियां से उनको जानकारिया देंगे इनके चलते हमने उनको साजान कर दिया है because of the technological and extremely complex system and lack of integration and with neighboring states there is a public discusses and and outcry in this set circumstances it is not feasible to implement this system where fuel is being denied to EOL end of life vehicles identify through ANPR

19:02is

19:04in Delhi

19:06this

19:08this

19:10m

19:12implement

19:14not

19:16this

19:18this

19:20this

19:22this

19:24this

19:26this

19:28We will upgrade it, test it, and take the whole knowledge of its experience and experience the whole system, and then we will be able to implement it.

19:58Of environment, of the government of India, the central government was involved in, you know, making these rules around the end-of-life vehicles and also defining end-of-life in that sense for vehicles.

20:11Right now we have the BJP government in Delhi blaming the previous Saab government here, isn't it?

20:18Well, certainly we are now seeing as to how the government, Delhi government, is forced to take back this decision.

20:24Remember that there was a lot of outcry and discontent among the people.

20:28And like the minister himself has also, you know, acknowledged that yes, the people in Delhi are not happy when they are denied fuel to end-of-life vehicles.

20:38And that is why the government has to withdraw its decision.

20:42Remember that in 2018 itself the Supreme Court had directed authorities to implement this decision,

20:47following which the NGT had also stepped in, but the governments could not implement it.

20:53But Delhi government, when it implemented, now we are seeing that there is a lot of outcry and discontent among the people.

20:59On 1st of July, we also reported from one such petrol pump in Delhi, where we have seen as to how the Delhi government has installed multiple CCTV cameras.

21:10Speakers have been installed to ensure that no diesel or petrol is provided to end-of-life vehicles.

21:17But after two to three days, we are now seeing as to how the Delhi government is facing a lot of problems.

21:22People are reporting this issue.

21:23Social media is filled with all such posts where it is criticizing the government for implementing this.

21:29And that is it. The Delhi government has come out and decided to withdraw this decision.

21:33It is also saying that until the time there is no complete implementation of this entire plan in NCR areas also,

21:41in areas of Noida, Gurugram, Faridabad, you know, until the time it is not implemented,

21:46then it is not feasible to implement at whole in a national capital.

21:50And that is why the government is withdrawing it.

21:53At the same time, Minister has also acknowledged, Minister Sirsa, who is also an environmental minister,

21:58he has also acknowledged that there is a lack of integration with the cities that are there in NCR.

22:05The point here is that you have a BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, you have a BJP government in Haryana,

22:10you have a BJP government in other, you know, in Rajasthan also.

22:14Okay.

22:15You can have a better integration, but that is not happening.

22:17And that is why the government has taken back this decision.

22:21Okay.

22:22Okay, it is going to give sigh of relief to few vehicle owners,

22:26but it is not good in larger terms because, again, yes, there are vehicles which cause pollution

22:33and that is why the government had to intervene and decided, and it had decided to not give vehicles.

22:38All right.

22:39Now, it's a U-turn in that sense that they have taken first, they rolled this out,

22:42and now they are pulling this ban out, essentially saying that it was the Ahmadiyya Party,

22:48previous government, that had, in fact, compelled the enforcement of this particular ban,

22:53and we were forced in that sense, but it's not working out, is what the BJP government is now saying.

22:58I would leave it to that.

22:59We are getting in those details at this point in time.

23:03Moving on, there's, in fact, been a fair amount of concern, remember, around the coward Yatra.

23:09The controversy has erupted already, as expected.

23:12In Mozafarnagar, a Dhaba staffer was asked to remove his pants to prove his identity.

23:18You heard that right.

23:20He said the owner told him to use a Hindu name, but his real name is Tajamol.

23:25With emotions running high, can peace be maintained during this year's Yatra?

23:30We delve deeper.

23:40Coward Yatra is once again mired in controversy.

23:43The U.P. government-dictat directing shop owners to display their nameplates during the Yatra has sparked tension.

23:51On June 29th, in Mozafarnagar, a Dhaba staffer was allegedly asked to prove his religious identity.

24:02Tajamol, the staffer, says the Dhaba owner had advised him to use the name Gopal for safety.

24:09But when a group of men stormed into the eatery, things quickly escalated.

24:15We are trying to make a mistake.

24:27Hindu groups have now entered the scene.

24:30They are claiming that some vendors are deliberately using fake Hindu names to mislead customers.

24:36The Muslim's name is Hathedjya Padarath.

24:43If they are known as Sanatana Dharma, they are known as Sanatana Dharma or Sanatana Dharma.

24:50If they are known as Sanatana Dharma, they will give their knowledge to the police.

25:03Politics is also escalating.

25:06MIM Chief Asad Uddin Ovesi has called the incident a sign of growing intolerance.

25:33MIM Chief Asad Uddin Ovesi has called the incident a sign of the Uddin Ovesi.

25:40The BJP hit back.

25:43Muslim dharamik bhaawnao ke qadar karne ke liye halal certificate ho ta hai.

25:50Hindu dharm ko nashd karne, usko lanchit ar apmánit karne wale ye wahi loog hain

25:56jinn ke liye halal ka jamal to sab se oopar hai

26:01aur yahaan par agar kewal name plate ko saamne rakh liya jaye

26:06to yye kai sakta hoon ki hindu dharm ki maanitau ko halal karna

26:11aur udhar halal ka jamal oopar karna, ye inki rajanit ka kamal hai.

26:17Kaward yatra, a religious procession is now spiraling into a communal flashpoint.

26:23Bureau Report, India Today.

26:34Vaccine war intensifies.

26:36Government goes all guns blazing against VAC's doubters.

26:45Medical experts clear the air.

26:53Ames declares COVID VAX is safe.

27:02Support science, say doctors.

27:04VAX not behind heart attacks.

27:07Well, it's a message loud and clear from medical experts.

27:14Science has spoken.

27:15Our vaccines administered against COVID-19 is safe.

27:19Remember, so much concern that has been around.

27:22And social media has been a buzz with a lot of conversation around heart attacks linked to COVID vaccines.

27:29Now, we've also had political and government representatives make this claim.

27:35Remember, Karnataka chief minister said that deaths in Hassan district in Karnataka has got to do with the COVID-19 vaccine.

27:43And that's the reason why the government of India, the Union Health Ministry, Delhi's prestigious Ames and the Indian Council of Medical Research have all stepped in and said that the vaccine is safe.

27:55Ames spoke today.

27:56There was a detailed press conference.

27:58This report has more.

27:59The All India Institute of Medical Sciences has finally addressed the swirling questions and the answer on whether the vaccine is killing people is a clear no.

28:14Top doctors from Delhi's Ames say there is no scientific evidence linking COVID vaccines to sudden cardiac arrest.

28:22In fact, the data points in the opposite direction.

28:27The vaccines were used.

28:29They were used in a large number of people and they were effective.

28:33They had a lot of benefit in preventing the excess mortality, which were prevented.

28:40So, if we talk about risk-benefit profile, which is the benefit that the vaccine has provided, the magnitude of the magnitude is more than that.

28:51And as we talked about, Dr. Narang has said that in sudden cardiac death, there are studies that have been used by COVID-19 vaccine.

29:01There are studies that have been given by the sudden cardiac death.

29:08There are many symptoms of sudden cardiac death.

29:11There are studies that have not shown that the studies have clearly shown.

29:14That is what we know about the study.

29:16Over 13 billion doses have been given globally.

29:2037 vaccines have been approved by various regulators.

29:2412 by the World Health Organization.

29:26According to Ames, those who got both doses had a 49% lower risk of sudden death.

29:33So, what then is causing heart attacks in the young?

29:37So, in younger persons, there are two kinds of diseases or disease group we should be aware of.

29:43One are the rhythm problems.

29:45The rhythm problem, the heart structurally is alright, but they have some rhythm problem.

29:49Microscopically, the cells have got problems in their channels and that sometimes leads to irregular heartbeat.

29:56And that irregular heartbeat leads to cardiac arrest and the person can suddenly die.

30:01So, then another important group where there is a structural heart disease in younger persons and that is called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

30:11About the COVID, it was clearly shown that those who got COVID vaccines, they were actually having less risk of sudden heart death.

30:20Those who got two doses, two doses lowered the odds of an unexplained sudden death by 50%, 49%.

30:26The hazard ratio was 0.51.

30:29That is 49% reduction in incidence of death was there.

30:32Add to this, the power of social media.

30:36Every tragic moment now captured and shared instantly.

30:40AIMS says these deaths happened before too.

30:43We just weren't filming them.

30:46Pathologists are digging deeper.

30:48AIMS has also conducted over 300 autopsies from sudden deaths during and after COVID.

30:55The most common cause of sudden death, especially in young individuals of ageing 18 to 45 years, less than 45 years, more than 18 years, is the cardiovascular system.

31:08So, in that, if you see, around two-thirds of cardiovascular causes are coronary artery disease, atherosclerosis.

31:18And we found that almost all young patients who died due to coronary artery disease, more than 50% of them had some evidence of smoking and alcohol habits.

31:29When you took the history, more than 50%, that is really worrisome in the present scenario.

31:34And all of them, they had evidence of vaccination prior.

31:37Maybe some had two doses, some had additional booster doses, some had single dose of vaccination.

31:43All would have evidence of vaccinations.

31:46Southern deaths happened pre-COVID too.

31:49The pattern, experts say, hasn't changed.

31:53Vaccines aren't killing young people.

31:56Bad lifestyle choices, hidden health problems and misinformation might be doing more harm than this shot ever could.

32:06With Minin Sharma in Delhi, Bureau Report, India Today.

32:11All right, I'm going straight live across to Chandrakhan Laharia.

32:15He is public health and policy expert.

32:17Thank you so much for your time, sir.

32:19Dr. Ramakand Pandha, cardiac surgeon, is also joining us.

32:22Thank you as well for your time here.

32:24I want to begin by asking Dr. Ramakand Pandha, what do you make of this chatter that we're seeing now?

32:30In fact, it's been ongoing for a while now.

32:33The government, all India Institute of Medical Sciences, ICMR has done much to clear the air around these heart attacks.

32:40What do you have to say?

32:42What's your opinion on this conversation with our vaccines being linked to heart attacks?

32:47There is absolutely no scientific evidence that the vaccines are the cause for this heart attack.

32:55You have to understand that more than 120 crore people got the vaccine first dose, almost 80-90 crore people got the second dose.

33:04When such a huge number of people get vaccine, there's this causal relation.

33:08Without vaccine also, 120 or 90 crore people, you are going to have certain amount of complications, heart-related complications, heart attack.

33:16More importantly, what's happening is, what I see in my practice, I started practicing 30 years back.

33:21I'll see once in a year a patient who is 30 years old who has a heart problem.

33:26Today, I see patients every day.

33:28It has happened before, COVID has slowly increased.

33:31So, it is large extent to do with our lifestyle, smoking, tobacco, food habits, late nights, lack of exercise.

33:39More to food our lifestyle, our lack of exercise, other reasons rather than vaccine.

33:46There is absolutely no evidence.

33:48I strongly recommend people not to listen to that.

33:51This is absolutely no scientific evidence.

33:53It is more related to our lifestyle that is leading to this problem.

33:57You know, Chandrakhan Laria, coming to you, the manner in which the vaccines were rolled out, the usual process takes up to even a decade sometimes to actually figure out a vaccine against a disease.

34:08But in this case, things were very different.

34:10I mean, this was a global emergency at the end of the day, the pandemic, which, by the way, hasn't ended.

34:15And hence the urgencies.

34:17World over vaccines were made in, you know, record times and, you know, record durations in that sense.

34:24All the work was expedited, but corners were not cut, is what is now being said, was said by the government even then, and is being said even by them even now.

34:35Well, so we should not worry about that those vaccines were expedited.

34:40What we need to remember, that even though those vaccines were released or came within one year of the detection of virus, but the platforms which were being used to develop those vaccines, viral vector or mRNA vaccines, those platforms were in the results for more than two decades.

34:56Right.

34:57And those platforms were effectively used.

34:58That's part one.

34:59Coming to the COVID-19 and the cardiac illness and deaths, we need to remember or break this into two parts.

35:05One part is that we definitely know that if someone had developed COVID infection, I'm talking about COVID-19 infection or disease,

35:13then the person had higher risk of developing various organ-specific disease, cardiac disease, heart disease, kidney disease, because COVID virus or SARS-CoV-2 can increase the risk of developing 210 type of different conditions which can affect any organ.

35:29But when it comes to vaccines, at least the two vaccines which have been used in India, Covaxin and Covishield, viral vector and inactive vaccines, they were not known to associate it with the increased cardiac risk.

35:41But it was a lot in the news and misinformation and people like because of the incidence of sudden cardiac deaths which were highlighted, people were incorrectly blaming to the vaccine, but there was no scientific evidence.

35:54Right.

35:55As AIMS press conference also highlighted that vaccines are given in the comparison of benefit and risk.

36:03So, COVID-19 vaccines definitely had a far greater benefit than the risk associated.

36:09And they were risk with any vaccine, but they're not risk associated with the cardiac illness or sudden cardiac attack.

36:15You know, Dr. Ramakand Panda, this was said in the past as well that if there would be any, you know, side effects of the vaccine, it would be seen almost immediately.

36:24And these serious side effects the government has reiterated were really rare.

36:29What's your point of view on this?

36:31I mean, at the end of the day, these vaccines are given three years ago to having now linking it to, you know, deaths right now in the country is actually bizarre, isn't it?

36:41Absolutely.

36:42Whatever evidence of us saying that if at all this, most of the symptoms are mild.

36:47And the vaccine that happens to MRA vaccine, usually it is one or two weeks after the vaccine, not after three years.

36:55That occurs in very mild, very rarely get a major complication.

36:59Younger people happen, but only within two weeks, not after that, not after three years.

37:04There's absolutely no evidence at this stage to show that vaccine has anything to do with increased risk of heart attack.

37:12You know, Dr. Panda, but what can happen after three years is the fact that the infection per se caused inflammation, didn't it?

37:20And many medical experts are of the opinion that it's COVID which could be leading to these problems.

37:26And that is still under the realm of research.

37:29Yes.

37:30At this stage, again, there's no scientific evidence that COVID, again, most of the patients completely recover, patients recover.

37:37They do not have any signs or any evidence of inflammation after COVID.

37:41There is a very small percentage of people who have signs of inflammation for longer period, but usually for three years is very rare.

37:49Now, that inflammation, again, precipitates in people who already had pre-existing heart problems.

37:55People who are having no heart problem, this thing causing after two, three years, very, very, there is no scientific evidence right now.

38:03Okay.

38:04You know, I want to ask you, it's also been said by AIMS today and several times by medical experts about the fact that, you know, these heart attacks were happening even earlier.

38:13It's just that lifestyle diseases and the age that we see it in the younger population now.

38:17We see diabetes in the younger population.

38:19We see obesity.

38:20We see colon cancer.

38:21We see fatty liver, for example, in the younger population.

38:25Similarly, we are seeing heart ailments in the younger population.

38:28It has been happening.

38:29There's a pattern to it.

38:31And that these deaths were there in the past.

38:33But right now, it's just getting amplified because of A, the fact that populations have received vaccines.

38:39And also that there is social media.

38:41Now you can make a video of every tragedy that plays out before you.

38:45Is that correct?

38:46Absolutely.

38:47Absolutely.

38:48It's because it got more, because social media, people have also become very conscious about it.

38:54Social media has played a big role in making it more viral.

38:57But the incidences were there.

38:59You can see, I'm practicing for 30 years.

39:02I've seen consistently slowly increasing rise of heart disease in younger people.

39:07Okay.

39:08So it has happened before COVID, it has happened after.

39:10It's only that people know more about it.

39:12Because social media and especially when you see this kind of very alarming thing, people get very quickly, it gets viral.

39:19And people think that everything related to COVID vaccine.

39:23There's absolutely no scientific evidence.

39:25There's no sudden increase after vaccine.

39:27It is all related to lifestyle.

39:29You know, Dr. Pandey, you make an important point because heart disease just does not manifest in the form of a cardiac arrest in there.

39:37There are heart ailments that get diagnosed and also get rectified in a way that there is treatment for it.

39:44You did mention that over a period of time, you're in general seeing that younger people are coming to you with heart problems.

39:50Is that correct?

39:51Absolutely.

39:52As I told you, 30 years back, I'll see a younger person once in a year, somebody 30 years away.

39:57Today, I see every single day.

39:59Okay.

40:00Sometimes I see two, three patients who are 30, 32 years, sometimes 25 years.

40:05Okay.

40:06That's an important point.

40:07Yes.

40:08There's something else also.

40:09Likes are related, especially smoking, tobacco, and working very late hours, especially those who are IT or finance industry.

40:17I see quite often.

40:18My younger patient, large number of them are from IT and finance industry because they work very late night, very long hours.

40:25There's a lot of people smoke, then they eat a lot of food which is very bad for the heart.

40:30It's very, everything related to the lifestyle.

40:32There's no evidence whatsoever.

40:33Again, I'll try to reiterate that COVID vaccine has nothing to do with it.

40:37At this stage, at least, no scientific evidence.

40:40There's no scientific evidence.

40:41Right.

40:42You know, Dr. Lahari, an important point that Dr. Panda has made there that he's seen this over a period of time, but it does seem that the vaccine has become a soft target here.

40:50But what about the vaccines that India was wanting and the opposition at that point in time?

40:55And there were many even within the country saying that, you know, let's try and get hands on the Moderna or the Pfizer vaccine.

41:02And what we know right now is that it's mRNA vaccines that are in news for all the wrong reasons, including a lot of litigation in the United States that these vaccines are now dealing with battles that pharmaceutical companies are fighting in courts in the U.S. over.

41:18What did the mRNA vaccines do to the populations that received it, isn't it?

41:23What's your take on that?

41:24So, well, let's focus upon the vaccines which we had in India and all these platforms, no matter which vaccine platform is there, these vaccines are always given in comparison of benefit and risk.

41:36And that point of time, all the vaccines which were being administered for COVID-19 were beneficial and the risk was very limited.

41:43Even the COVID-19 viral vector vaccine, the COVID shield was proven to have shown some higher risk of vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia.

41:53So, each of the vaccines, no matter which vaccine, it has certain inherent low risk of certain adverse events.

42:01But when benefit is greater, we administer them.

42:04Let's take a point that these vaccines, none of the vaccines which have been used in India are associated with the increased heart attack or sudden cardiac arrest.

42:12Fair enough.

42:13And they are safe for vaccine.

42:14And at present, like in India, no COVID-19 vaccine is recommended.

42:17We probably do not need COVID-19 vaccines for any new variant.

42:21We would not need the COVID-19 vaccine in the future, probably.

42:24So, we need not to worry about it.

42:26As far as mRNA vaccines are considered, they are an important tool in the fight against COVID-19 because they can be quickly tweaked.

42:33So, in a future scenario, when there is a viral, a new variant which is virulent and which is causing severe disease, those vaccines could prove a useful platform.

42:42Okay.

42:43So, of course, they are associated with a certain increased cardiac risk.

42:47But then, that point of time, benefit is greater, that risk, then it will be worthwhile using those vaccines also.

42:53So, we should not discount mRNA vaccines also.

42:55Right.

42:56All right.

42:57Should not discount mRNA vaccines, importantly.

42:59Dr. Panda, what are your thoughts around mRNA vaccines and other vaccines that were given outside of India?

43:04At the end of the day, all of them, we have to remind our viewers, was cleared by the World Health Organization.

43:09The emergency use authorization had come through before these vaccines were rolled out in the population.

43:15Isn't it, Dr. Panda?

43:17Yeah, absolutely.

43:18I agree with my co-panelist.

43:19If you look at the risk of COVID versus the benefit we got, the so-called complications rate is so low.

43:25This risk benefit is, the benefit of vaccine is way, way better than the risk that is caused.

43:31So, I totally agree that even mRNA also, though in India we have not used, there has been a lot of concern about it.

43:38Still, the benefits far, far, far outweigh the risk that these vaccines cause.

43:43All right.

43:44Dr. Panda, Dr. Chandrakhan Lahari, I'm going to thank you both for joining in, sharing your views with us.

43:50Undoubtedly, like you've heard from the doctors themselves, there has been an increase in the number of patients,

43:56younger patients reporting to doctors with cardiac problems, with health problems related to their heart.

44:03And it's just not manifesting itself in the form of a heart attack, but also other problems associated with the heart.

44:09Lifestyle diseases being seen in the younger population, that has increased, so how can the heart then be spared?

44:16The heart also is involved, and that's the reason why younger population is now also succumbing to heart disease.

44:23It's got no link with the vaccine.

44:25I think that is something that has been said by the government, by India's top medical institutes,

44:30like the Indian Council of Medical Research, like the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences,

44:35and all the medical experts on India today, who've been talking at length about how the vaccine was safe.

44:47Well, because we put the focus on social media and the videos that have been doing the rounds,

44:53we'll just in fact take our viewers through details of what we have seen over the last few days.

44:59Deaths of ostensibly healthy, fit individuals dropping dead.

45:03These are videos that we keep seeing almost on a daily basis.

45:07There have been a dozen and more of these videos in the past few months.

45:10A look at the recent ones.

45:12A 35-year-old man in Faridabad collapsed and died during a gym workout.

45:18Heart attack was suspected.

45:20CCTV footage of this incident has also emerged.

45:24Pankaj collapsed and died during a gym workout.

45:27CCTV pictures of this raising once again questions about fitness-related cardiac arrest.

45:34The tragedy took place at the Shrutana Wellness Gym in Sector 9 in Faridabad.

45:40But before that, a little more on what you see on your screens are pictures from Firozpur in Punjab,

45:46where a batter suffered a heart attack after hitting a six during a cricket match.

45:51The victim, identified as Harjeet Singh, died immediately.

45:54The video begins with the batter preparing to face a delivery,

45:57goes on to whack it for a six as you can see on your screens.

46:01However, after completing this shot, he walks to the middle of the pitch,

46:07where he goes down on his knees and collapses.

46:10Seeing him go unconscious, the rest of the players rush to his help and attempt CPR.

46:15He fails to regain consciousness, dies instantly.

46:19The video surfaced on the 29th of June.

46:22All right.

46:23Taking our viewers to what you see on your screen.

46:24The video surfaced on the 29th of June.

46:25All right.

46:26Taking our viewers to what you see on your screen.

46:27Right now.

46:28These images are from a gym in Faridabad, which I just mentioned a few moments ago.

46:33A pankaj, a 35 year old.

46:34Overweight by any measurement.

46:35170 kilos.

46:36A square foot.

46:37A square foot.

46:38A square foot.

46:39A square foot.

46:40A square foot.

46:41A square foot.

46:42A square foot.

46:43A square foot.

46:44A square foot.

46:45A square foot.

46:46A square foot.

46:47All right.

46:48Taking our viewers to what you see on your screens.

46:52Right now.

46:53These images are from a gym in Faridabad, which I just mentioned a few moments ago.

46:58Pankaj, a 35 year old.

47:00Overweight by any measurement.

47:02170 kilos is what has been said.

47:04He died while just starting his workout.

47:0835 year old Pankaj, on your screens.

47:11He died during a gym workout.

47:13You can see he's working out the man of the black t-shirt.

47:16He collapsed and died during this workout.

47:18Moments after he started it, he's passed away.

47:21This incident took place at the Shrotana Wellness Gym in Sector 9 in Faridabad.

47:27Within two minutes of beginning his exercise routine.

47:30His friend and gym staff tried to revive him by sprinkling water but to no avail.

47:36On the right side of your screen, pictures like I mentioned are from Firozpur in Punjab.

47:40Where a batter suffered a heart attack after hitting a six during a cricket match.

47:45Victim identified as Harjit Singh died instantly.

47:48It begins with the batter preparing to face a delivery.

47:51Goes on to whack it for a six.

47:53However, after completing his shot, he walks to the middle of the pitch where he goes down and dies.

47:59To tell our viewers, doctors have emphasized that do not panic on seeing these videos.

48:04It's not because of the vaccine.

48:06It is just that we have more CCTV cameras now really in every nook and corner or wherever we are.

48:12And these videos are getting constantly made because we have our mobile phones.

48:17And that there is no link really to the vaccine.

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