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McCullough dropped off the map in 2021. Did that little dickens pop up again?

pre-covid, cases of myocarditis is the US averaged about 250,000 cases a year and that amount is considered ‘rare’

If you go to IHME, world-wide pre-vaccine, “Summary Myocarditis was responsible for 977 000 DALYs (95% UI 804 00–1 130 000) in 2019. In 2019, there were 728 000 incident cases (585 000–879 000) of myocarditis in males and 538 000 incident cases (436 000–651 000) in females.
https://www.healthdata.org/results/gbd_summaries/2019/myocarditis-level-4-cause

Here’s another world-wide estimate:
“he incidence of myocarditis is approximately 1.5 million cases worldwide per year. Incidence is usually estimated between 10 to 20 cases per 100,000 persons
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459259/#:~:text=Incidence%20is%20usually%20estimated%20between%2010%20to%2020,difficult%20to%20ascertain%20as%20many%20cases%20are%20subclinical.

But I don’t think myocarditis has much to do with long covid.

Long covid deals mostly with sleep orders, mood swings, shortness of breath, brain fog, chest tightness, loss of hair, smell or taste issues, mobility issues, muscular aches and skin rashes

Most of what I’ve learned about myocarditis, besides it’s rare is:
According to the CDC, “Of the hundreds of millions of Covid vaccine doses given in the U.S. since late 2020, there have been around 1,000 reports of vaccine-related myocarditis or pericarditis in children under age 18, primarily young males”

According to a breakdown shown at a chart at the below link, from VAERS: 972 reported, 635 confirmed out of 54 million doses.

CDC enhanced surveillance:
During the surveillance periods (through November 2021 for 12–17 years and April 2022 for 5–11 years), VAERS received 430 reports of myocarditis or myopericarditis after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in children ages 5–17 years
that met CDC case definition
190 completed the patient or parent survey, 128 were unreachable on multiple attempts, 98 had no telephone contact information in the report, and 7 declined to participate • 226 cardiologists or other healthcare providers (HCP) completed a survey, 120 were unreachable on multiple attempts, and 65 had no telephone contact information
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2022-06-22-23/03-covid-shimabukuro-508.pdf

If you go further down to the chart entitled: Verified myocarditis and pericarditis in the 0–7-day risk interval among MALE children ages 5-17 years by age group and dose, the largest number shown under excess risk column is 151 per million - That’s far from McCullough’s claim of 25,000/mil. Maybe he’s trying to pass off the ‘normal’ pre-covid rate as covid-caused?