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What a wretched thing. My wife was pregnant when the vaccines came out and we had to make a decision on whether to get her vaccinated, which might provide COVI
by ALittleLight 4y ago
What a wretched thing.
My wife was pregnant when the vaccines came out and we had to make a decision on whether to get her vaccinated, which might provide COVID protection to our newborn, or to avoid the risk of a relatively new vaccine and pregnancy complications. This was further complicated by the fact that initially our doctor advised against talking the vaccine while pregnant, and then suddenly flipped to strongly encouraging us to take it without any new evidence - pressuring us by warning that our child might catch COVID in the hospital at birth. All this complicated still more by the fact that I know the medical establishment in the US repeatedly lied and got major things wrong with respect to COVID.
COVID, and the vaccine, are very difficult decisions for people. I can't imagine the loss for this family or how horrible it would be to try to make the best decision to keep your child safe and wind up with this - against all odds.
I found it interesting that there's such a wide discrepancy between myocarditis numbers in the US versus the Nordic countries. I wonder what phenomenon explains that.
- nerpderp82 4y ago> such a wide discrepancy between myocarditis numbers in the US versus the Nordic countries. Could you put this in absolute numbers? Which one is greater?
- ALittleLight 4y agoI think it's an order of magnitude more likely in the Nordic study, unless I'm misreading something. From the Discussion section of this article - Reports of myocarditis and pericarditis after COVID-19 vaccination have increased since the report by Albert et al. [6]. The frequency of occurrence of myocarditis and pericarditis has been reported in a US military survey including 23 cases of myocarditis/2,800,000 persons with a mean age of 25 years, all males, and no deaths [7]. A total of 40 U.S. hospitals reported 20 cases/2,000,287 with myocarditis and 37 cases/2,000,287 with pericarditis; both groups showed male predilection, mean age of onset of 36 years for myocarditis and 59 years for pericarditis, and no deaths in either group [8]. The Nordic cohort study reported that myocarditis occurred in 1,077/23,122,522 patients and pericarditis in 1,149/23,122,522 patients; both were more common in young men aged 16–24 years and most commonly occurred after the second vaccination [9].