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> Are you disputing that Covid itself was known to cause myocarditis at an even greater rate than any vaccine was said to? I would dispute that in the context
by whimsicalism 3y ago
> Are you disputing that Covid itself was known to cause myocarditis at an even greater rate than any vaccine was said to?
I would dispute that in the context of young adolescents and children, as I do not think that is known at all. Global covid 19 myocarditis risk in the year after taking the vaccine is 0.02% and vaccine myocarditis risk for adolescents is 0.01%. If myocarditis risk is at all similar to other severe covid symptoms, then it is likely from these stats that there is higher myocarditis risk from the vaccine for young people than from the possibility of being infected with covid and getting myocarditis.
That said, not all myocarditis is created equal and my understanding is vaccine associated myocarditis is generally milder.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9743686/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9743686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9802621/#ref3 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9802621/#ref3