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Vaccine side effects are less frequent and less severe that. Unvaccinated COVID side effects in all age cohorts. By a significant margin. Myocarditis in partic
by jjeaff 5y ago
Vaccine side effects are less frequent and less severe that. Unvaccinated COVID side effects in all age cohorts. By a significant margin.
Myocarditis in particular is 8x more likely to occur with COVID vs the vaccine.
So, while an argument could be made that the risk of adverse reaction or death from COVID is too small to matter one way or the other in young people, it is not correct to say that the vaccine is more risky.
There is one exception I have seen in some data that myocarditis risk was roughly equal or slightly higher for young men of a specific age group who received the second dose of the moderna vaccine. But one could of course avoid that particular vaccine and still be better of vaccinated because that of course is only for myocarditis and the absolute risk is very tiny.
- JPKab 5y agoThis article breaks it down, and references a newer, larger N Oxford study using data from the British NHS. Agreed on it being certain age cohorts. My dad would be a lunatic to not be vaxxed. But a 20 year old who is healthy? https://ravarora.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-vaccine-induced-myocarditis https://ravarora.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-vaccine-indu...
- jjeaff 5y agoI have not gone through that study or article in depth yet, but the thing that jumps out at me initially is that it is using seroprevelance data from Battacharia and I am yet to understand how he is so confident in his numbers. All of his surveys from my understanding rely on data gathered from people who came in looking to be tested. Which would obviously taint the randomness as people who think they might have had COVID are much more likely to take the time to come in and be tested. Also, if his data is to be believed, then the protection offered by having had COVID in the past has been far overstated.