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As a physician I have been appalled by the lack of concern of the numerous reports of possible side effects to the vaccines, and the repeated mantra of safe and effective despite what appears to be a substantial number of reactions, the uniform approach to vaccination (mandates for young adults and children despite the illness, especially since omicron, being a cold for them), the denial of natural immunity as protective, the list could go on. We can’t find what we aren’t looking for. I’m glad someone is actually looking, and thankful that you are spreading results of these studies. I no longer feel I can trust the medical establishment of our country to actually be looking out for what is best for patients.

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1976 flu vaccine stopped due to 450 cases of guillian barre

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Bravo for this excellent summary, and for highlighting the significant concerns many have regarding missed cases of more severe myocarditis that “never make it to hospital”.

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I really like this line: "The immediate reaction from the intellectually dark corners of social media to minimize safety concerns or dismiss reports like the one presented here as an “anti-vaxx” position is a predictable, but reflexively decerebrate reaction ..."

The expression "reflexively decerebrate" characterizes a good deal of the speech on social media. Well said!

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"It is of interest that these 5 lethal cases of presumed vaccine myocarditis are older and don’t have a male predominance, which is altogether different than the pattern observed to date in hospitalized patients (mostly young males). This could represent a survivorship bias where the health system is only seeing and recognizing the milder cases of myocarditis or may mean this is an altogether different, more lethal version of myocarditis that manifests in older individuals without the usual male predominance."

I wonder that there may not also be a bias in who's presenting to the ER in the younger cohort, too. Heart attacks weren't as easily recognized in women because they often don't manifest with the same symptoms they do in men. Might it also be the case that women experiencing a 'mild, transient' myocarditis don't have chest pain or shortness of breath that scares them into going to the ER--but instead feel miserable in some other way?

Off to see if anyone's done any research on sex differences in myocarditis signs/symptoms.

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Did you see this?

C19-induced myocarditis was a delusion at best, possibly a lie, could virus-induced hepatitis, poliomyelitis or others be fake too?

“We did not observe an increased incidence of neither pericarditis nor myocarditis in adult patients recovering from COVID-19 infection.”

https://covidmythbuster.substack.com/p/c19-induced-myocarditis-was-a-delusion?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9025013/

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i am a phyisician . My wife who si 65 years old received a pfizer covid vaccine, her second in late April 2021. She got quite ill after second vaccine, with disabling muscle, joint pains and fever which took more than a week to resolve. 4 weeks later she had progressive shortness of breath which worsened over a few day period and told me , she thought she was going to die. On taking her to the hospital she was diagnosed with takotsubo cardiomyopathy ,had elevated troponin, and prolonged QT interval, and deeply inverted T waves. cardiac cath showed some mild atherosclerotic disease , without infarct

She was quickly discharged 4 days later and told to take b blocker and Ace inhibitor. MRI showed myocardial edema with a return to normal for her ejection fraction.

One week later we were in a hotel room and she suffered cardiac arrest , I resuscitated her and she had an AICD placed. thereafter she developed multiple episodes of pulmonary edema with drops in her ejection fraction, during these episodes and return to normal in between.

Does this seem like a mild insignficant inconvenience which improves quickly. When i raised the issue as a doctor to other physicians that this might be myocarditis, I was summarily dismissed

This is a crime against humanity. I have no doubt that myocarditis presents as sudden death. My wife has lived it

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So glad you're covering this too Anish.

I looked into COVID related myocarditis and found this great talk by Dr Mark Halushka a cardiac pathologist (poss guest for A&KR podcast?):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMl-OCD91DI

https://twitter.com/Marc_Halushka/status/1392228326656274438

Looks like COVID myocarditis is mainly in older comorbid patients, but vaccine myocarditis can also be present in younger healthy patients.

What's really worrying that the 1 in 3000 rate for healthy young males for the latter is likely to be a substantial underestimate as the Thailand study suggests, if based on vaccine safely reporting systems that are notorious for under reporting.

This is all very deserving of attention, so thanks for the great work 👍

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This was an interesting post.

Regarding likelihood of arrhymogenic cardiac failure secondary to myocarditis being the cause of death, I believe that you quoted the German pathologists inaccurately--two were possible causes of death, not probable causes of death.

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I NEVER miss reading your stacks. Jam packed with excellent information. Thank you!

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