JD Vance tells Joe Rogan a senator has "serious" COVID vaccine ...
Donald Trump's running mate and Ohio senator JD Vance said he knows a senator with "serious" coronavirus vaccine side effects.
The revelation aired during Vance's interview on Joe Rogan's podcast episode with the potential next vice president.
"I have a Senate colleague who doesn't want to talk about it but worries that it's permanently affected his sense of balance, dizziness and vertigo, and it happens."
Vance went on to say he's talked to a number of people who say they've been vaccine-injured, and not all of them are public.
"You're not allowed to question it," Rogan said during the conversation. "You're not allowed to discuss it."
"People know people who have been vaccine injured, particularly people on the left. They're very reluctant to discuss it... They're scared of being labeled an anti-vaxxer."
Newsweek reached out to Vance for comment via email.
Newsweek could not independently verify if a senator has suffered from side effects related to the coronavirus vaccine or which Senate member this could be.
Currently, there are three different coronavirus vaccines Americans can choose from: Pfizer and Moderna as well as a protein-based vaccine from Novavax.
The most common side effects include pain and swelling at the injection site, with others reporting fatigue, headache and muscle pain.
Chills, fever and nausea are also often reported, but in rare cases, patients can display serious adverse reactions.
Anaphylaxis, a severe allergic reaction that can cause breathing problems, has been reported along with a few other serious conditions, according to the CDC.
Guillain-Barré syndrome is a side effect that takes place when your immune system attacks healthy nerve cells, leading to muscle weakness and paralysis in some cases.
Among the other rare side effects include myocarditis and pericarditis, which is a condition where your heart muscle or its surrounding tissue becomes inflamed.
Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome has also been linked to the coronavirus vaccine. In these cases, patients experienced blood clots or increased blood clotting.
The Republican Party has been pushing to hold employers and colleges responsible for the vaccine injuries employees and students sustained in order to comply with vaccine mandates.
Representative Matt Rosendale (R-MT) introduced the University Forced Vaccination Student Injury Mitigation Act, which would require colleges that implemented vaccine mandates to pay for the medical costs for students if they sustained adverse side effects.
"If you are not prepared to face the consequences, you should have never committed the act," Rosendale said in a statement.
"Colleges and universities forced students to inject themselves with an experimental vaccine knowing it was not going to prevent COVID-19 while potentially simultaneously causing life-threatening health defects like Guillian-Barre Syndrome and myocarditis. It is now time for schools to be held accountable for their brazen disregard for students' health and pay for the issues they are responsible for causing."
A study published this year in the JAMA Network Open also revealed that people in Republican-voting states were more likely to report adverse side effects after their COVID-19 vaccine than Democrat-run states.
This means the way patients view their side effects and how they decide to report them could be influenced by their political alignment.
For states with a 10 percent increase in ballots cast for a Republican in the last presidential election, there was a 5 percent increase in reporting an adverse event and a whopping 25 percent jump in severe adverse events reported.
