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> Boys more at risk from Pfizer jab side-effect than Covid, suggests study That study (which was still a pre-print, not reviewed) was retracted. It didn’t mak

> Boys more at risk from Pfizer jab side-effect than Covid, suggests study That study (which was still a pre-print, not reviewed) was retracted. It didn’t make any sense for the authors to compare the risk of myocarditis (most of which is benign) after receiving the vaccine to the risk of hospitalization from a COVID infection. Comparing two different outcomes against each other is deliberately misleading. COVID infection is also well-known to cause myocarditis at high rates, but the study conveniently ignored that.

ggdG 5y ago
> That study (which was still a pre-print, not reviewed) was retracted. That study wasn't retracted. It's still here: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v... Maybe you're confusing it with another one. There was a Canadian preprint on myocarditis (sample size: 32) that got retracted by its authors: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/university-of-ottawa-heart-institute-myocarditis-study https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/university-of-ottawa-he... To make the confusion complete, there is a study on myocarditis that got peer reviewed and accepted for publication in an Elsevier cardiology journal, only to be "temporarily removed": > The Publisher regrets that this article has been temporarily removed. A replacement will appear as soon as possible in which the reason for the removal of the article will be specified, or the article will be reinstated. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0146280621002267 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014628062...
miles 5y ago
The study was not retracted: SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccination-Associated Myocarditis in Children Ages 12-17: A Stratified National Database Analysis https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v... and the CDC itself supports an even more "radical" conclusion: Why COVID-19 Vaccines Should Not Be Required for All Americans https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/why-covid-19-vaccines-should-not-be-required-for-all-americans https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/why-covid-19-vacci... > Dr. Marty Makary, a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and editor in chief of MedPage Today, argues that mandating vaccines for "every living, walking American" is, as of now, not well-supported by science. ... The risk of hospitalization from COVID-19 in kids ages 5 to 17 is 0.3 per million for the week ending July 24, 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We also know that the risk of hospitalization after the second vaccine dose due to myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle, is about 50 per million in that same age group.

ggdG 5y ago

> That study (which was still a pre-print, not reviewed) was retracted. That study wasn't retracted. It's still here: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v... Maybe you're confusing it with another one. There was a Canadian preprint on myocarditis (sample size: 32) that got retracted by its authors: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/university-of-ottawa-heart-institute-myocarditis-study https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/university-of-ottawa-he... To make the confusion complete, there is a study on myocarditis that got peer reviewed and accepted for publication in an Elsevier cardiology journal, only to be "temporarily removed": > The Publisher regrets that this article has been temporarily removed. A replacement will appear as soon as possible in which the reason for the removal of the article will be specified, or the article will be reinstated. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0146280621002267 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014628062...

miles 5y ago

The study was not retracted: SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccination-Associated Myocarditis in Children Ages 12-17: A Stratified National Database Analysis https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v... and the CDC itself supports an even more "radical" conclusion: Why COVID-19 Vaccines Should Not Be Required for All Americans https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/why-covid-19-vaccines-should-not-be-required-for-all-americans https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/why-covid-19-vacci... > Dr. Marty Makary, a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and editor in chief of MedPage Today, argues that mandating vaccines for "every living, walking American" is, as of now, not well-supported by science. ... The risk of hospitalization from COVID-19 in kids ages 5 to 17 is 0.3 per million for the week ending July 24, 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We also know that the risk of hospitalization after the second vaccine dose due to myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle, is about 50 per million in that same age group.