Civilized said:
Bellhenmar said:
dogplasma said:
What is the risk of myocarditis from vaccine versus the risk from Covid itself? What I've read is that it's higher from the virus. You wouldn't think the AHA would continue to endorse vaccination if it were not.
Unrelated note - some local Covid news: The News & Observer - Duke leads national COVID study of ivermectin
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From some estimates as high as 12,000 cases of myocarditis from vaccination. No where near that from infection. The "experts" continue to say the risk is minimal from vaccination but that's too high for me.
Risk of myocarditis from COVID is multiples higher than from the jab. 146 per 100,000 with COVID vs. 2 per 100,000 from jab according to this study.
Males under 16 are most susceptible to myocarditis (from the virus and from the poison). Also 98.6% of myocarditis cases in kids from vaccine are mild, with no reports of mechanical heart support or death from vaccine. All children who had heart weakness had complete normalization of their heart function on followup checkup.
You can lower risk by getting Pfizer instead of Moderna.
Myocarditis: COVID-19 is a much bigger risk to the heart than vaccination
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According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the risk of myocarditis after infection with COVID-19 is much higher, at 146 cases per 100,000. The risk is higher for males, older adults (ages 50+) and children under 16 years old.
Myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination is rare and the risk is much smaller than the risks of cardiac injury linked to COVID-19 itself.
Based on a study out of Israel, the risk of post-vaccine myocarditis is 2.13 cases per 100,000 vaccinated, which is within the range usually seen in the general population. This study is consistent with others in the United States and Israel which put the overall incidence of post-vaccine myocarditis between 0.3 and five cases per 100,000 people.
Why not both since subsequent boosters don't provide great protection against infection?
My main issue now is the scope creep on boosters. And the mandates for young people to participate in education and sports requiring boosters (Or as the muppet Walensky likes to say "Up to date").
Now, the latest MMWR has come out (and it was mostly done during the Delta period) but in all the pumps on it, they compare boosted to unvaccinated... and kind of gloss over the group with the original series done.
But let's look at young people and boosters.
Now this is with Delta, it will be interesting what comes out when full Omicron.
But based on that CDC MMWR. In (early) December, when we still had a lot of Delta.
The average weekly incidence cases:
For a VACCINATED 18-49 year old was 302 per 100k.
For a BOOSTED 18-49 year old it was 191 per 100k. (745 per 100k unvax)
So at best, pre-Omicron, we are looking at a temporary 33% reduction in infections?In Oct November for Deaths (so pre-Omicron) since they didn't have December data.
The average weekly incidence deaths:
For a VACCINATED 18-49 year old was
0 per 100k.
For a BOOSTED 18-49 year old it was
0 per 100k. (1 per 100k unvax)
With basically
NO CHANGE to serious outcome
Here is the time period of the CDC MMWR:
Doesn't really change my mind a whole lot that for healthy young people, booster doses are largely unnecessary at this point. If they want to
focus on seniors or at-risk, which is where I thought boosters should always have been targeted, seems reasonable.
People can do what they want and what they deem best with their doctors advice. But universities mandating boosters for healthy college students looks like a seriously flawed policy based on this data.
But public health is going to boost broad swaths of the population with a 2 year old formula for a virus that is no longer circulating without thoughts or concerns as to the possible side-effects (myocarditis, AOS, etc) because why?
Public health and policymakers need to look like they are doing something? Because we already paid for all the doses?
Why are we medicating healthy young people with additional boosters that provide basically no relative benefit (the protection from serious harm is covered with the original series)?
Again, work it out with your doctor and make the right decision for you. But the fact that there are already so many private universities mandating these (useless for young people) boosters and it is starting to creep into the under 18s to participate in school and sports is disgusting.
Public health grifters (including political muppets like Walensky and culpable narcissists like Fauci) are so simply minded it is baffling.
Why no nuance?? Why can't we boost an 80 year old woman and leave an 18 year old boy who is already vaccinated and HAD COVID alone?
Universal boosting of this vaccine is a public health crime.... and I am baffled that we are allowing big pharma and fear to drive this forward.