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Myocarditis is extremely serious and potentially life-long. Please don't downplay it. I have a cardiomyopathy.
by jamesblonde 5y ago
Myocarditis is extremely serious and potentially life-long. Please don't downplay it.
I have a cardiomyopathy.
- sfteus 5y agoI'm saying this as someone who lost a family member to a combination of myocarditis and endocarditis resulting from a flu infection: I'm not attempting to downplay it. Myocarditis has the potential to be extremely serious, especially for those with pre-existing heart problems. However, _in my opinion_ with how infectious omicron is, it is likely inevitable that everyone will eventually be exposed. The literature (linked in my GP) currently seems to indicate that vaccines have a lower risk of myocarditis than an active SARS-CoV-2 infection. Most literature that I've seen (so far) indicates that occurrences of post-vaccination myocarditis tends to be rare, and not life-threatening, and the patients tend to recover quickly.[1] ----- [1]: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.056583 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.0...
- jamesblonde 5y agoWe read different literature: https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/uk-now-reports-myocarditis-stratified https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/uk-now-reports-myoca... based on this Nature paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0.pdf "Yes, sorry to break it to you, vaccines can have risks of myocarditis EXCEEDING risks of myocarditis from infection. Pls stop saying otherwise."
- gilbetron 5y agoOnly for Moderna, which is why a number of places stopped recommending it for "younger" adults. Pfizer has lower results of myocarditis.