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Myocarditis is by no means "no impact" and certainly if you get it, complications are the least of your worries. Here's a blog post about the relative risks by
by native_samples 5y ago
Myocarditis is by no means "no impact" and certainly if you get it, complications are the least of your worries. Here's a blog post about the relative risks by a doctor:
https://sebastianrushworth.com/2022/01/09/covid-vaccine-vs-infection-myocarditis-risk/ https://sebastianrushworth.com/2022/01/09/covid-vaccine-vs-i...
"And myocarditis is a serious disease, make no mistake. Lately, I’ve been hearing this sentence alot: “but the myocarditis caused by the covid vaccines is mild!”. I’d never heard of “mild” myocarditis pre-covid. Pre-covid, myocarditis was always considered a serious disease. What the people saying this mean is that the patients admitted to hospital with myocarditis after vaccination are usually able to go home after a few days, and don’t generally end up in an ICU. Which is true.
But we don’t say that most heart attacks are “mild” just because they don’t result in a stay in an ICU, and just because the patient is usually able to leave the hospital within a week. A heart attack is a heart attack, and is by definition serious. The same goes for myocarditis. Our heart muscles are not very good at repairing themselves, and it is impossible to know today the extent to which an episode of vaccine induced myocarditis increases the person’s future risk of serious long-term complications, such as chronic heart failure or atrial fibrillation.
So, myocarditis is always serious, regardless of whether it puts you in an ICU or not, and we need to know whether the risk of myocarditis caused by the vaccines is greater than the risk caused by infection."