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A Hong Kong study has found an “increased risk” of a rare condition involving temporary facial paralysis following Covid-19 vaccinations with Chinese Sinovac jabs, but researchers urged more people to get inoculated in a city that has spent months limping towards herd immunity . The University of Hong Kong team found that if 100,000 people had taken the Sinovac CoronaVac doses, there would be 4.8 more cases of Bell’s palsy within 42 days. “Our study shows an overall increased risk of Bell’s palsy after CoronaVac vaccination, but not after BNT162b2 vaccination,” the academics wrote in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal...
