Thought experiment.
You’re a doctor, and you administer the 1st does of the Covid vaccine to an 18 year-old male patient. He suffers acute myocarditis as a result. He eventually recovers.
Do you administer the 2nd dose of the vaccine knowing his reaction to the 1st dose and knowing that adverse effects are often more pronounced with the 2nd dose?
That would depend on a whole host of factors including the patient’s medical history, family medical history, and the precise clinical presentation of the myocarditis in that individual.
I’ll ping some great doctors here in case they’d like to chime in with a more thoughtful analysis, but I will say your question is certainly interesting.
In NYS, docs aren’t the ones doing the vaccinating.
Primary care providers haven’t been able to offer the vaccines.
Does anyone else besides me want to kniw why in Hades that is the case, why the people most familiar with their patients aren’t allowed to offer the vaccines...
No. I would not administer another dose
-PJ
My good friend’s 26 healthy year old brother died shortly after the vaccine, so I wonder how rare it really is.