being a person in the most vulnerable category for developing myocarditis from the vaccine (and in general), i felt like i should add some of my experience with

being a person in the most vulnerable category for developing myocarditis from the vaccine (and in general), i felt like i should add some of my experience with researching this topic. SARS-CoV-2 has been shown to make a person 18 times more likely to develop myocarditis than if they never got sick [0]. other sources suggest that number is much higher: "Across all ages, the risk of myocarditis was almost 16 times higher for people with COVID-19 compared to those who aren’t infected. The myocarditis risk is 37 times higher for infected children under 16 years and seven times higher for infected people ages 16-39 compared to their uninfected peers." [1] okay, so let's take a step back. the global prevalence of myocarditis has previously been found to be ≈ 22 of 100 000 patients (annually) [2]. i haven't found any statistics of annual ratio's for young men developing myocarditis in general, but all reports read that those numbers are higher. the recent israeli study found that male vaccine recipients between the ages of 16 and 19 were found to have developed myocarditis in 13.73 cases per 100,000 people. so what does this tell me? for me, it shows that the risks of developing myocarditis are in general, scary -> post-vaccination, similarly spooky -> post-covid, terrifying. still though, some arguments for younger people (closer to the age group parent comment may be referring to) suggest that "the risk of developing myocarditis might be increased more by the vaccine than by the disease, particularly because children rarely develop severe COVID-19" [3]. this is merely conjecture, but i'm assuming that the source would define developing myocarditis as a severe COVID-19 case. otherwise, it would not be very relevant. most of the research i've done for myself reach a similar conclusion for children (under the age of 18): the risks of getting vaccinated outweigh the risks associated with COVID-19 if a person has at least one COVID-19 comorbidity. for me, i decided to get my third-dose because i felt that although the chances of developing myocarditis seem to increase with the number of vaccinations you get, the benefits still seem to outweigh the risks. and finally, this is not a new phenomena and from what i understand, it is a natural reaction post-vaccination. the increase in the possibility of developing myocarditis has been a spook (albeit, a real risk for some people) associated with vaccination for a long time now. [2] [4] [5] [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22328081/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22328081/ [1] https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/16388?autologincheck=redirected https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/16388?autologinche... [2] https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.115.306573 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.115.30657... [3] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02740-y#ref-CR4 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02740-y#ref-CR4 [4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6437672/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6437672/ [5] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4751718/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4751718/