>> I know it is popular to blame Hamlin’s cardiac arrest on The Jab, but just about every player on every NFL and College team has been vaxxed for the last two years, and we don’t have players dropping like flies week in and week out. <<
We don’t?
Why myocarditis has been glommed onto as an excuse not to be vaccinated other than it sounds skeery and there’s not much else to complain about is anybody’s guess. The risk for myo is clearly much higher for those who catch Covid whether symptomatic or asymptomatic.
“We performed a meta-analysis with 17,704,413 subjects that included 627 confirmed myocarditis...The incidence of myocarditis was 0.0035%. Cases reported from Israel represented 45.14% from total (283 out of the 627). Only 1 case of fatal myocarditis or death was reported....”
US:
“ one study estimated that myocarditis affects about 40 people out of every 1,000,000 people who test positive for COVID-19... myocarditis is much more common in patients hospitalized for COVID-19 (226 per 100,000)....Myocarditis is a rare complication of COVID-19 vaccination. It affects fewer than 20 people per 1,000,000 COVID-19 vaccinations.”
UK study:
“...the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has reported 145 cases of myocarditis and 138 cases of pericarditis out of 177 million doses... and 9 cases of myocarditis and 19 cases of pericarditis out of 20 million doses.... In Israel, 275 cases of myocarditis were reported between December 2020 and May 2021 among more than 5 million people vaccinated ....Of the 38,615,491 vaccinated individuals included in our study... There were 114 deaths with myocarditis recorded on the death certificate as a cause of death (23 had a SARS-CoV-2 positive test). ...Of the 38,615,491 vaccinated individuals included in our study...188 (11.9%) had a SARS-CoV-2 positive test, with 154 (9.8%) of these being before vaccination. There were 31 deaths with pericarditis recorded on the death certificate as cause of death (6 had a SARS-CoV-2 positive test). ...
From the Netherlands “... 2.3% of the athletes were diagnosed with clinical or subclinical myocarditis after a recent infection [18]... In a systematic review of CMR imaging studies performed in athletes with a history of COVID-19, the proportion of athletes with a confirmed diagnosis of myocarditis varied between 0% and 15% [19]
From Israel: “...Over 9 million Israeli residents were included, of whom more than 5.4 million had received at least one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine...Of the identified 136 cases, 129 (94.9%) had a mild disease course defined as a resolution of symptoms within days with normalisation of cardiac biomarkers and any abnormalities detected with ECG and echocardiography. In one case (0.7%), myocarditis was fulminant and led to death [6].
https://www.internationaljournalofcardiology.com/article/S0167-5273(22)00127-9/fulltext
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12471-022-01677-9