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>The reason myocarditis is underreported is because most cases are incredibly mild. Where is the evidence for this? Everything I've seen suggests 10-20% of vac
by logicchains 5y ago
>The reason myocarditis is underreported is because most cases are incredibly mild.
Where is the evidence for this? Everything I've seen suggests 10-20% of vaccine-induced myocarditis cases result in a life-lasting disability.
- legitster 5y agoHow do people know? For every previous vaccine, myocarditis inflammation has mostly been temporary. If this one is different, how would people know it's lifelong? It's much, much more likely that reaction to the vaccine is uncovering existing, latent myocarditis than it is causing them. A la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_windshield_pitting_epidemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_windshield_pitting_epi... Also, nobody who cares about myocarditis seems to be pointing out that you are 16x more likely to get a myocarditis diagnosis from catching Covid than you are for getting vaccinated.
- dlemire 5y agoCommonly used vaccines are known to cause widespread temporary myocarditis?
- legitster 5y agoIf you search in academic literature from before Covid, you will find all sorts of case studies of myocarditis caused by flu shots: https://www.onlinejcf.com/article/S1071-9164(18)30491-3/fulltext https://www.onlinejcf.com/article/S1071-9164(18)30491-3/full... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6786665/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6786665/ https://jitc.bmj.com/content/7/1/53 https://jitc.bmj.com/content/7/1/53 It seems pretty safe to assume that if you have an autoimmune disorder that causes heart inflammation when attacking a virus, in some people it may respond to the vaccine similarly. (But again, I think the evidence in such cases is that your body would be much more responsive to a covid infection than an mrna vaccine).