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Posted on 12/17/2021 6:51:41 AM PST by Red Badger
A new study published in The BMJ confirms previous reports of an increased risk of heart inflammation (myocarditis or myopericarditis) after vaccination with BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) and mRNA-1273 (Moderna) but shows that the absolute number of cases was low, even in younger age groups, providing further evidence to support the overall safety of mRNA vaccines for covid-19.
Just 1.6 cases per 100,000 in younger individuals (12-39 years) after Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine; Findings support the overall safety of mRNA vaccines for covid-19.
A study published by The BMJ today (December 16, 2021) provides more reassuring data on the risk of heart inflammation (myocarditis or myopericarditis) after mRNA vaccination against the covid-19 virus.
It confirms previous reports of an increased risk after vaccination with BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) and mRNA-1273 (Moderna) but shows that the absolute number of cases was low, even in younger age groups, providing further evidence to support the overall safety of mRNA vaccines for covid-19.
Myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and myopericarditis (inflammation of the outer lining of the heart) are rare but serious conditions, usually triggered by a viral, bacterial, or fungal infection.
Recent reports and studies have indicated an increased risk of heart inflammation after mRNA vaccination, particularly after the second dose. But as yet, no study has investigated the association using information from a complete population.
To address this, researchers in Denmark used national healthcare data to look for links between mRNA vaccination and a hospital diagnosis of myocarditis or pericarditis, increased blood troponin levels (a measure of myocardial damage), and a hospital stay lasting more than 24 hours.
Their analyses included nearly 5 million Danish residents aged 12 years or older who received either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine.
Participants were monitored from October 1, 2020 to October 5, 2021, and a range of potentially influential factors were taken into account, such as age, sex, vaccine priority group, and underlying health conditions.
During follow-up, 269 participants developed myocarditis or myopericarditis, of whom 108 (40%) were 12-39 years old and 196 (73%) were male.
Overall, the results show a strong association between vaccination with Moderna and myocarditis or myopericarditis, while vaccination with Pfizer-BioNTech was only associated with an increased rate of myocarditis or myopericarditis among women.
The rate of myocarditis or myopericarditis was higher for Moderna vaccination than for Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination. Nevertheless, the absolute number of events after either vaccine was low, and cases were predominantly mild.
For example, of 3,482,295 individuals vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech, 48 developed myocarditis or myopericarditis within 28 days of vaccination (an absolute rate of 1.4 per 100,000) compared with unvaccinated individuals.
Among women, the absolute rate was 1.3 per 100,000 and in men it was 1.5 per 100,000. Among 12-39 year olds, the absolute rate was 1.6 per 100,000, and in the youngest age group (12-17 year olds) it was only 1 per 100,000 within 28 days of receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
Of 498,814 individuals vaccinated with Moderna, 21 developed myocarditis or myopericarditis within 28 days of vaccination (an absolute rate of 4.2 per 100,000) compared with unvaccinated individuals.
Among women, the absolute rate was 2 per 100,000 and in men it was 6.3 per 100,000. Among 12-39 year olds, the absolute rate was 5.7 per 100,000 within 28 days of receiving the Moderna vaccine.
Both vaccines were also associated with around a 50% reduced risk of cardiac arrest or death (the most severe manifestations of myocarditis or myopericarditis) compared with unvaccinated individuals.
In contrast, there was a 14-fold increased risk of cardiac arrest or death 28 days after a positive covid-19 test compared with uninfected individuals.
This is an observational study, so can’t establish cause, and the researchers point to some potential sources of bias, such as increased public awareness of potential side effects of vaccines, that may have affected the results.
However, they say this was a well designed study based on high quality healthcare data for a complete population, and results were largely unchanged after additional analyses, suggesting that they withstand scrutiny.
As such, the researchers conclude that mRNA vaccination with Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech is associated with an increased risk of myocarditis or myopericarditis in the Danish population, but the absolute rate after either vaccine was low, even in younger age groups.
The benefits of vaccination should be taken into account when interpreting these findings, they add, and larger multinational studies are needed to further investigate the risks of myocarditis or myopericarditis after vaccination within smaller groups.
Reference: “Research: SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and myocarditis or myopericarditis: population based cohort study” 16 December 2021, BMJ. DOI: 10.1136/ bmj-2021-068665
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You should not! This happened to my little brother. He is in his mid 50s and has been a captain for a major airline for decades. He got the Pfizer and shortly afterwards was grounded at his bi-annual FAA mandated first class physical. He was told that he had a swollen and inflamed heart. It looked like his career was over after he saw several doctors. He was told repeatedly that the damage was permanent and that he would never fly again.
He knows other pilots in the same exact situation. If it was so uncommon what are the chances that he would know other people in the same situation. The pilot's union lost an unprecedented number of members this year mostly to heart problems after they took the “vaccines”, a dozen or more times normal. These are people who stay in good shape, have no comorbidities, have thorough physicals twice a year and have been almost 100% vaccinated. So no, these numbers are not believable. I would say that they are likely being intentionally manipulated.
My brother got a call from someone at the airline, they are short of pilots partially because so many have been grounded. He was told to go to an FAA flight examiner that is granting waivers. Bingo... he is flying again. Typical government, if the standards that have been adhered to for the last 70 years are causing problems, lower the standards.
the rule was: ABOVE ALL DO NO HARM.
Now the rule is: make money,
murder children,
snuff the makers of HCQ,
force the poisons on all,
blame failure on those who do not succumb.
icon wrote: “It doesn’t matter how “safe” or “effective” they are. They are for a “disease” that is easily survivable by over 99.8% of the population, and there is therefore ZERO justification for mandating the jabs, lockdowns, masks, or any of the other tyranny. It really isn’t complicated.”
The survival rate for polio was also 99%.
Does not include cases of those who become symptomatic but do not seek further medical attention, asymptomatic cases or what the long term effect of even mild cases. Always good to check the funding of the authors and the editors who accepted and published the article.
joshua c wrote: “and the side effects of HCQ and Ivermectin?”
COVID infections.
This right here is the absolute stupidity of all this.
In one sense it doesn't matter if the case rate is low if you are the 12-39 year old who gets irreparably harmed or killed because of the injection. You are maimed. Or dead. Lots of other people aren't maimed or dead. Great. Good for them.
But this risk is why you can't and don't mandate this stuff, and this is why people needed to have this info in hand before they agreed to the vaccination. There was always a risk, and they needed to know that.
But they were effectively told there wasn't any risk worth mentioning. That it's perfectly safe and you should get it no matter what.
Anyone with sense knew that was BS.
Clever. Do you mean survival rate for those who contracted polio, or overall survival rate as a function of the entire population?
Makes a difference. Love to examine your source(s).
BS Communist propaganda. Totally predictable...
What they are saying is that “it is mostly peaceful and safe with totally acceptable collateral damage numbers to advance the cause”.
taxcontrol wrote: “No, it provides the exact opposite. The evaluation of safety should not be based on the rareness of occurrence. It should be based on the fact that it occurs at all.”
CDC - “Any vaccine can cause side effects. For the most part these are minor (for example, a sore arm or low-grade fever) and go away within a few days. Listed below are vaccines licensed in the United States and side effects that have been associated with each of them.”
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm
The number they are spouting is 1.6 per 100,000— for the whole population not just the young.
The numbers are meaningless and manipulated garbage, used to justify the stripping away of every shred of autonomy and dignity we as a free people possessed.
Their actions, my FReind, not their words. The “Science” community is ineffective, incompetent, unable to admit error, uninterested in truth, and demands unearned respect. Their work product at the end of the day amounts to providing cover for tyranny. They always support some collectivist, hubris-tainted plan to control.
YOur wish is not likely to be granted. World-o-meter is the primary source of the 1.6% fatality rate falsehood. If you take the total number of “cases” and divide it by the total number of “deaths” you get 1.6%. The problem is that the vast majority of people either have no symptoms or symptoms that are not serious enough to get medical attention so they are never counted as a “case”. On the other side of the coin the vast majority of people who die “from” Covid are actually dying “with” Covid.
Covid truly is already endemic in our society. After over a year and a half anyone who is not a shut in has had some exposure and some type of immune reaction to it. It is very contagious. At this point anyone who dies from anything is fairly likely to have some sign of Covid in their system which could be picked up by a PCR test and cause them to be counted as a Cove death after they ride their motorcycle under a cement truck or like my own brother-in-law who finally died of brain cancer while he was on hospice care and was then counted as a “Covid death”.
Your fellow Freepers are 100% correct... the “99.8%” survivable figure is much more accurate than the garbage that you have been spoon fed and has turned you into an unwitting tool of the left.
Well, the risk of a healthy young person getting myocarditus is slightly more than the risk of having a real problem or death from Covid.
And since the shot is all but worthless now, it’s a silly risk to take.
The death rate due from COVID is bogus. They’ve been proven to include people who died from things such as motorcycle crashes.
“ During follow-up, 269 participants developed myocarditis or myopericarditis, of whom 108 (40%) were 12-39 years old and 196 (73%) were male.
Overall, the results show a strong association between vaccination with Moderna and myocarditis or myopericarditis, while vaccination with Pfizer-BioNTech was only associated with an increased rate of myocarditis or myopericarditis among women.
The rate of myocarditis or myopericarditis was higher for Moderna vaccination than for Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination. Nevertheless, the absolute number of events after either vaccine was low, and cases were predominantly mild.
For example, of 3,482,295 individuals vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech, 48 developed myocarditis or myopericarditis within 28 days of vaccination (an absolute rate of 1.4 per 100,000) compared with unvaccinated individuals.” - article
So the risk of just this of deleterious side effect is real. How can a government or doctor forcibly inject someone knowing that there is real potential for serious illness or death?
Why didn’t this risk surface in the trials, or did it? FDA has some explaining to do-Before the year 2074.
While not the only factor in my refusal of the jab, it is in the top 5 reasons for not getting it.
Oh....so it won’t kill and permanently incapacitate unsuspecting younger people as much as that other approved vax?
You mean ‘living?’
Current USA Covid fatalities are 804,000.
804,000 (deaths) divided by 140 million (infections) = 0.57% (fatality rate).
A severe influenza season has a 0.2% fatality rate.
Bottom Line...
Protect the elderly and the infirm.
Everyone else, go back to your normal life.
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