Twitter labels a completely true statement from a cardiologist "Misleading"
Ramin Farzaneh-Far is a cardiologist who was one of the first to notice Israeli data from the Spring of 2021 that suggest the messenger RNA vaccines were associated with myocarditis. He was also one of the first to point out that the significantly higher rates of myocarditis seen after the second dose of the mrna vaccine strongly suggested myocarditis wasn’t a random event after vaccine administration. The CDC director at the time dispelled these concerns, noting the US CDC had not seen a link between the vaccines and myocarditis. These are all factual statements. But apparently, Ramin putting these facts into a tweet is considered misleading by Twitter. What a strange world we live in.
The Epoch times procured emails from the military with a Freedom of Information Act that showed concern about Israeli data that demonstrated rates of myocarditis between 1/3000-1/6000 in young men. At the same time the US department of defense noted they were tracking 14 cases of myocarditis as well. The lead Israeli researcher noted the new analysis "is very suggestive of a causal nature," between the vaccine and myocarditis, "I am convinced there is a relationship.”
And yet, the CDC director quickly put out a statement at the same time noting the CDC had looked at the data and not found a link between heart inflammation and the vaccine. She was wrong, and Ramin and others pointed this out in real-time. ( )
The Israeli data was finally published in the New England Journal of Medicine in October of 2021. The study confirmed significantly higher rates of myocarditis than a historical background, and cases clustering in young men between the ages of 16 and 19.
Now the CDC director had pivoted to admit myocarditis was related to vaccines, but dismissed these cases as mild, and not important when considering the risks of COVID to children.
But these cases were mild only if you considered chest pain, a near 100% hospitalization rate, myocardial cell death, and a high likelihood of cardiac scar formation “mild”.
The strident statement on risks and benefits of the vaccines is also a statement well beyond what the actual data suggested at the time. Reliable datasets now from Israel, France, Ontario, and yes even the United States suggest a risk of myocarditis with the vaccine of ~1/5000 in young healthy men after at least one of the two messenger RNA (mrna) vaccines. Can the CDC director, or anyone else, for that matter point to data that shows serious morbidity from acute COVID to healthy young men is at a higher rate than that? Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Germany and France all restricted the use of Moderna in younger men, but the US CDC a few weeks ago “signed off” on the use of Moderna in children aged 6-17. Never mind that the CDCs own data shows myocarditis rates are highest in males aged 16-17.
It took months for the CDC to even acknowledge myocarditis was related to vaccines. How many months will it take for the CDC to acknowledge healthy 16-17 year olds shouldn’t be getting the Moderna vaccine at the very least? More importantly, how will Twitter’s menlo park interns decide whether cardiologists raising concerns about serious cardiac events from a particular therapeutic is misleading information or not?
Anish Koka is a Cardiologist. Follow him on twitter @anish_koka
I have to make the obligatory post-script here that I oversaw the administration of hundreds of mrna vaccines starting in March of 2021 in my cardiology clinic. The vaccine efficacy data for the original data was from thousands of patients and I certainly felt given the devastation wreaked on many of my patients in 2020 that the vaccines were the best chance of avoiding morbidity and mortality. The process to get the vaccines from the city department of health was a somewhat arduous 3 month process, and once the vaccines were on hand, there were daily reporting requirements that I dutifully performed for the many months we were administering vaccines. To accommodate the rush of patients, employees, volunteers, and conscripted children worked multiple weekends to administer the vaccines. So I’m especially disgusted by medical colleagues who label any concerns registered about vaccine adverse events as “anti-vaxx”. Registering concern over a vaccine adverse event does not make doctors or patients “anti-vaxx”.