Where is the comparison between myocarditis induced by vaccination vs natural infection?
[0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.23.21260998v...
“Myocarditis (or pericarditis or myopericarditis) from primary COVID19 infection occurred at a rate as high as 450 per million in young males. Young males infected with the virus are up 6 times more likely to develop myocarditis as those who have received the vaccine.”
https://twitter.com/ID_ethics/status/1437876328640876544
Better breakdowns by age and gender show a risk of myocarditis after two doses as high as 1 in 3000:
https://twitter.com/VPrasadMDMPH/status/1437067899089219589
This number has been steadily increasing, as time passes. Current consensus seems to be that one dose is the optimal tradeoff between risk and reward for young children.
> Is it your assumption that all myocarditis cases are as serious as a COVID hospitalization?
Yes. It is not an assumption. Myocarditis is not a mild condition, despite rhetoric to the contrary.
> With or without treatment, the "clinical course appears mild"
> Patients commonly received NSAIDs, steroids, and colchicine for treatment of vaccine-associated myocarditis.
These are.. not comparable to typical COVID hospitalization outcomes, are they?
The (very) few kids who end up hospitalized for Covid have serious co-morbidities that are easy to pre-screen (e.g. severe obesity). For these children, a full vaccination is recommended. Nobody is arguing about that. For healthy kids, it's very different.
It's great that most kids with myocarditis don't end up in the ICU, but being put in the hospital to get hooked up to an IV and an MRI scan is not a good outcome for an otherwise healthy kid who would would have -- at most -- a head cold from SARS-CoV2.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-does-it-mean-to-be-ant...