Posted on 07/06/2021 8:39:51 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Singapore health authorities on Monday updated existing guidelines on post-vaccination care, asking individuals to avoid strenuous exercise for a week after they have been vaccinated against Covid-19, as a “further precautionary measure”. This new measure is meant especially for adolescents and men below the ages of 30, reported Bloomberg.
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Funny, I’m 75 and I was lifting weights the afternoon of my second shot.
The heart aggravation concern seems to be limited to (mostly) men in younger age groups.
COVID can also cause this inflammation.
Can and does. Big 10 college athletes are regularly screened for heart issues and they found 2.3% of their athletes with COVID-19 had myocarditis. (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2780548)
So out of 1 million, that would be 23,000 cases of myocarditis caused by COVID-19 versus 16 cases caused by an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine (https://www.aappublications.org/news/2021/06/10/covid-vaccine-myocarditis-rates-061021)
16 vs 23,000? Yeah, I know which one I’d go with...
The vaccine hasn’t been out long and the younger you go the more the risk shifts from being worse for the shot than for the virus.
Possibly. I’ve said before that if I had kids under about 13, I wouldn’t be giving them any of the COVID-19 vaccines at this time because I haven’t seen evidence for a positive risk/benefit. Teens definitely still spread the virus, so there is undeniably some benefit to having them vaccinated, but also some level of risk. However, when we’re talking about myocarditis specifically, COVID-19 presents a risk of that condition thousands of times greater than getting vaccinated.
I’d like to see a lot more study on what exactly the risks of both COVID-19 and the vaccines are in teens and younger. For example, I’m aware of identified cases of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) connected to COVID-19 infection, but how prevalent is that at various age groups and what is the prognosis? How severe are symptoms? These are all important questions to help weigh the risks and benefits and I haven’t seen a lot of research done on this yet. Maybe it’s ongoing, I honestly don’t know.
It is my understanding that the heart issues in question, especially in this age group — even if the immediate, initial symptoms go away, pose too many risks in the long term. Delayed onset.
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