For years, millions of people suffering from strange, lingering health problems were told they had Long COVID — even when some never tested positive for COVID-19. Now, a new study out of Yale suggests a new reality: many cases blamed on the virus are actually vaccine injuries caused by lingering spike protein.
In a bombshell paper uploaded to the preprint server medRxiv, Yale researchers found that a number of patients showing Long COVID-like symptoms were instead suffering from Post-Vaccination Syndrome (PVS) — a condition caused by exposure to the same spike protein that mRNA COVID vaccines instruct the body to produce.
Federal health agencies, including the FDA, had long reassured the public that vaccine-produced spike protein was harmless and short-lived. But the Yale study tells a different story: in some patients, spike protein fragments were found lingering in the bloodstream for as long as 709 days after vaccination.
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“There is considerable overlap in self-reported symptoms between Long COVID and PVS, as well as shared exposure to spike protein,” the study authors noted.
Translation: whether the spike protein came from an infection or a vaccine, the inflammatory damage looked remarkably similar.
Despite clear patient suffering, there’s been a huge double standard. Long COVID has received $1.6 billion in taxpayer-funded research grants. Meanwhile, those injured by vaccines — whose symptoms often mirror Long COVID — have been largely ignored, gaslit, or left without medical support, because health authorities still refuse to formally recognize Post-Vaccination Syndrome.
The Yale researchers also point out that it might not just be the spike protein causing trouble. Components of the vaccines themselves — like the mRNA, the lipid nanoparticles (fat globules that deliver the mRNA), or adenoviral vectors used in other shots — can trigger strong immune reactions in some people, possibly leading to long-term symptoms.
For context, one of the study’s lead authors, Yale immunologist Akiko Iwasaki, previously dismissed public concerns about vaccine safety during the heated debates over vaccine mandates. But the science — and the patient reality — seems to be catching up.
Until now, the idea that vaccines might cause prolonged illness was labeled “disinformation” by government agencies, fact-checkers, and media outlets. But the Yale study throws cold water on those dismissals, opening the door to a scientific — and political — reckoning.
If confirmed by future research, these findings will rewrite part of the pandemic’s history — and force a long-overdue conversation about vaccine risks, medical transparency, and why so many patients were left to suffer in silence.
