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That's about the same rate as clots in AstraZeneca's vaccine.

So if I'm reading this correctly - that means about 1 in 90,000 people are getting myocarditis that otherwise you wouldn't expect to get myocarditis from the vaccine.

Is that correct, and if so, is that a big deal?

This feels like a pretty lazy anecdote to mention off hand without any context of how these two side effects compare in terms of lethality.

Blood clots from the adenovirus vector vaccines are far more lethal than the myocarditis. A good fraction die because the clot happens to be CVST (in the brain).

The mRNA vaccines seem to be the safest overall, although there is curiously little data coming in from inactivated virus vaccines. I'd be interested in seeing if they cause similar issues as the other two.

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