When asked in June 2021 about the risk of myocarditis following the COVID vaccines, Dr. Roger Hodkinson, pathologist, replied:
“Myocarditis is never mild, particularly in young healthy males. It’s an inflammation of the heart muscle, the pump of the body. And we don’t know what percent of the heart muscle cells would have died in any one attack of myocarditis. The big thing about heart muscle, heart muscle fibers, is that they do not regenerate, . . . so you’re stuck with an unknown percentage of your heart muscle cells having died. We can’t estimate the number, and therefore the long-term results are utterly unpredictable. We do know . . . that myocarditis can present decades later, with premature onset of heart failure that would otherwise not have been expected. So it’s a terrible worry for these people to know what’s going to happen to them in the future. . . . It’s not trivial.”
In diagnosing myocarditis, cardiac magnetic resonance studies (CMR) have shown specific sites of inflammation or fibrosis, and help to evaluate functional impairment of heart muscle. Myocardial edema and late gadolinium enhancement are seen on CMR in cases of myocarditis. In all cases reporting chest pain post-COVID vaccine in one study these abnormal findings were present on CMR in each subject. Past or current COVID-19 disease had been excluded in all subjects. [7] However, the more widely accepted criterion of myocardial injury is a threshold of serum troponin levels at or above 99th percentile of upper reference range. [8] Elevated troponin is considered to be both sensitive and specific for myocardial damage. Troponin is a protein normally confined to the cytosol of cardiomyocytes, as well as other muscle cells, and is not normally found in the blood; however, it is released in the circulation when heart muscles become damaged.
At the time of this writing, in the current post-peak-COVID era, it has been 15 months since peak COVID mortality in the US and the world, which occurred in mid-April 2020, as shown by CDC data.
[9] Now, a year later, COVID vaccines have been aggressively introduced in most countries, and Our World In Data, which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, estimates that 2.5 billion people or one quarter of the earth’s population, have already taken one of the new COVID vaccines, although they have only been available for about six months.
[10] As morbidity and mortality from SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 and its variants have diminished, and the world’s death rate per 1000 people is still at a relative low in 2020 and 2021 compared to the last seven decades, without evidence of any recent pandemic by mortality data,
[11] we now can turn our attention to the health effects of the new COVID vaccines. None of the new vaccines attempts to introduce the entire coronavirus into the body, but rather a spike protein generating mechanism. Therefore, let’s focus on only the spike protein’s effects on the myocardium and its cells.