Posted on 01/03/2022 8:10:22 AM PST by SeekAndFind
There is a risk of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle, in young people from the vaccine. But it is rare, and symptoms of the condition are normally mild. The CDC and others say the benefits of the vaccine far outweigh the risks.
The CDC said the only confirmed fatalities related to the COVID-19 vaccines are nine deaths from a blood clot disorder tied to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Deaths and other adverse events reported to the government’s VAERS database do not mean they are confirmed to have been caused by the vaccine.
A Texas cardiologist recently made a claim about the risk of myocarditis in teens from the COVID-19 vaccine, citing a study that health experts raised doubts about in September. He also floated a debunked claim that 45,000 Americans have died from the vaccine.
Dr. Peter McCullough made the claims in an appearance on the "DarkHorse Podcast; an article about his appearance, from the website Conservative Fighters, carried the headline: "Top cardiologist: Study shows COVID vaccines are more dangerous than covid itself."
"The most shocking thing in the Hoag analysis was that a child ages 12-17 is more likely to be hospitalized with myocarditis than taking your chances with COVID and ever getting hospitalized with COVID," McCullough claimed.
The claim is not accurate. Public health experts say the benefits of the COVID-19 vaccine outweigh the risks for teens.
McCullough was referring to a study by Dr. Tracy Hoag and others posted to MedRxiv, a site where researchers post preliminary versions of scientific papers before they are peer reviewed. PolitiFact found that several doctors and researchers pointed out flaws in that study’s methodology.
McCullough, president of the Cardio Renal Society of America and editor of the journal Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, is a frequent Fox News guest and has a talk radio show called "The McCullough Report" on the America Out Loud network. His biography on the network’s website says he is "among the world’s experts" on the virus.
However, McCullough has made several claims during the pandemic that have been debunked by fact-checkers, such as that healthy people under 50 don’t need the COVID-19 vaccine and that vaccines offered no protection against the delta variant.
Baylor Scott & White Health, the large Texas-based health system, cut ties with McCullough in February and got a temporary restraining order against him in September, accusing him of continuing to claim an affiliation with it in media interviews, a claim he denied, according to Medscape.
McCullough’s claim that teens are more at risk from the vaccine due to myocarditis is not accurate. Health officials acknowledge there is a risk of the heart disorder but say it’s rare and that cases are generally mild.
Hospitalizations of teens due to COVID-19 infection remain low, compared with other age groups, CDC data shows, but the risk of illness or death due to the virus is greater than the risk from myocarditis, health experts say.
Martha Sharan, a spokesperson for the CDC, said that cases of myocarditis after the COVID-19 vaccine are still being investigated.
"It shares some features with typical viral myocarditis in terms of the age and sex distribution, the presenting symptom of chest pain, and various lab values. However, myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccine has less occurrence of heart failure and has a milder acute clinical course," Sharan said.
She added that "short-term outcomes of myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccine are much better than those of typical viral myocarditis," and that studies of the long-term outcomes are continuing.
When the vaccines first started coming out, doctors were seeing a small number of males in the 15-to-24 age group with symptoms of myocarditis, including chest pain, low-grade fever, and some changes in MRIs and EKGs, said Dr. Stuart Berger, chief of cardiology in the Department of Pediatrics at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
"These were kids that got symptoms resolved over a very short period of time, probably 24 to 48 hours, so went home and were fine," Berger said.
Berger added that "the incidence of that was much, much, much smaller than myocarditis in the general population that is not related to COVID."
Berger said people, even children, are at much higher risk of getting sick or dying from COVID-19 itself or from Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome, which has been reported in many children who have had COVID-19.
His recommendation to his patients? Get the vaccine.
Classic politifact. “The experts say...” no real information to dispute Dr. McCullough.
Proving not to be so “rare” & I believe the stat is that for those who have myocarditis, 1 in 5 are dead in 6 years. Anybody want to take that chance themselves or put their kid in jeopardy?
The “oh it’s mild and rare”, only xx number out of millions of shots. Well, it’s not so “mild/rare” when it’s YOU that has the issue or YOUR kid. People are playing Russian Roulette with the health of their kids & themselves.
To borrow some famous lines ....”You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do you .....?”
Primarily young men who are in peak physical condition, running, training, flying airplanes, etc, essentially all of whom are vaccinated. If the side effects aren’t actually rare I would expect the military to be having serious problems functioning. I still see military aircraft overhead and I haven’t heard of any drastic reduction in readiness, not that I suppose such a problem would be made very public.
You can get mild myocarditis like you can be mildly pregnant.
“Mild” myocarditis gives away the lie.
This is like a “mild” gunshot wound to the torso, or “mild” strichnine poisoning.
GMTA.
Hmmm...let’s see. Who should I believe here?
A physician who has been on the front lines actually at the forefront of treating COVID patients, who has complete command of the facts, statistics, current journal publishing on COVID and has published on a range of topics in medicine with over 1000 publications and more than 600 citations in the National Library of Medicine, or...
A snot nosed 21 year old jackass with a degree in gender studies working for Politifact whose specialty is using Wikipedia to research the validity of issues?
I am so conflicted here. I just don’t know who to believe. This is so hard.
Politifact shoud be about politics, not medicine. There is nothing truthful about biased politifact propaganda.
Yes.
According to Dr. McCullough there are varying degrees of Myocarditis.
In general (non-COVID vaccination environment) it is a rare condition that can sometimes be treated as an outpatient.
He did state that this type of myocarditis, seen in young people as a result of the vaccination, is very serious, and even when they are admitted to the hospital, he expects up to 13% of them to sustain permanent disabling effects from the condition, with treatments up to and including cardiac transplant.
It is easy for people at NIH, CDC, and the Democrat party to dismiss it as “rare” and “mild”, but when it is your child, is is not “rare” or “mild”, especially when they end up in that 13% who are going to be cardiac cripples for the rest of their lives.
Unbelievable. This is evil at work here by these political facts, dismissing this.
Total bullcrap. The CDC cannot say myocarditis is less severe than normal, or that the long term consequences are not the same as for normal. Bender there have been NO studies of that.
Dr Malone discussed this very thing at length on Rohan’s podcast.
“Politifact” provides no quotation numbers or studies to back their assertions. Propaganda at its purest.
Qiviut wrote: “To borrow some famous lines ....”You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do you .....?””
That is exactly the question you should be answering before you refuse the vaccine. The odds are very much in your favor should you get the vaccine.
Another CDC report narrows the data to males ages 12 through 17 and shows that for every 1 million vaccine doses, there were between 56 and 69 reports of myocarditis. However, it calculated that the COVID-19 vaccines prevented 5,700 cases, 215 hospitalizations, 71 ICU admissions and two deaths.
They aren't ignoring the risk of myocarditis, the question is whether you trust the data from the CDC.
I hate hearing only from one side or the other. I am not completely convinced that the “anti-vax” side is right. I have some major doubts about some of their claims. But why is it that we can’t get a debate of sorts. Even on twitter, back and forth. But we dont, we just get one sided interpretations. I am not convinced by either side. One thing I DO know is that banning the “antis” is only going to make the situation worse.
There is the report of pilots blacking out after being vaccinated. Eric Boling is,also,suffering from blackouts apparently.
The political and profit enhancing benefits of the vaxxine far out weigh the multiple and severe physical liabilities of the vaxxine.
How about the CDC?
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographics
Scroll down for the age data. For kids under 18 YO, deaths in the age range run less than .01% of all deaths.
Around 1,000 deaths attributed to CoupFlu for kids under 18 in the entire country.
And I’ll bet even that low number has been goosed up.
Why in God’s name would anyone get their healthy kids vaxxed is beyond me.
That’s exactly what Dr Malone discussed on Rohan’s show. That 1 in 6 stat.. and it’s almost all longer term. He said long term has -not- been studied, so it’s basically a lie when they claim myocarditis from the shot is more mild.
And he went into detail in the micro-clots causing it. Very spooky and not indicative of the damage only being short term.
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