by Barbara Gehrett, MD; Joseph Gehrett, MD; Chris Flowers, MD; and Loree Britt, Daily Clout:

By late February 2021, a group of experts called Brighton Collaboration released a paper, which was published in Vaccine, clearly defining Vaccine-Associated Enhanced Disease (VAED), which is a more severe clinical presentation of a disease in a person vaccinated against that disease than would normally be seen in an unvaccinated person. Yet, Pfizer, public health, and media spokespeople only referred to post-COVID-vaccination COVID-19 infections as “breakthrough cases” — i.e., normal, not more severe, COVID infections — without explaining the possibility of VAED in such cases. Not explaining VAED kept the public in the dark about how receiving initial and additional COVID vaccine doses may cause worse COVID illness than remaining unvaccinated.