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> The majority of myocarditis cases due to the vaccine don't even require hospitalization. Interestingly, this stood out to me: > The outcomes of interest in
by Ancapistani 5y ago
> The majority of myocarditis cases due to the vaccine don't even require hospitalization.
Interestingly, this stood out to me:
> The outcomes of interest in this study were hospital admission or death from myocarditis. Myocarditis was defined as the first hospital admission in the study period or death using International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 codes (Supplementary Table 6).
In other words, this study didn’t even attempt to measure the rate at which myocarditis occurred in each group - only the rate at which people were hospitalized or died from myocarditis.
Another thing that gave me pause: If someone with COVID-19 developed myocarditis, was hospitalized, and died… I would expect their reported cause of death to be COVID-19, not myocarditis.
- native_samples 5y agoSuch a person would be included as a COVID-19 death in the statistics because those data sets all assume correlation = causation, actually you don't even need to test positive at the time of death. Any positive within 28 days of the death is sufficient. But the death certificate might record the cause differently, depending on arbitrary factors like how hard working the relevant staff are feeling that day.