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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36436002/
Check out this study - you can do an autopsy and link sudden death to mRNA myocarditis. This should help you understand a bit more why such a rare risk is worth your time.
You've posted this link to various places, so I'll respond here: hasn't the idea that vaccine can cause myocarditis in at least some cases been a part of the official data at least since 2021? At least the Finnish health authorities have stated that the mRNA vaccine can cause myocarditis for young men and that strenuous exercise just after vaccination should be avoided. Currently, the second booster is not available here for people under 60, unless they have extra conditions.
The question is, though, how common myocarditis is and if it's common enough to mean that vaccination is more risky than being unvaccinated, for all groups or some. The jury is still out on that question, as far as I've understood, and this study does not by itself answer it.
For young males, the risk of myocarditis after the 2nd dose of mRNA vaccine is higher than with covid infection. This should be taken into account in all vaccine recommendations, unfortunately in the USA we've chosen a "one size fits all" approach that groups 80 year old women with 19 year old men.
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Since you can die suddenly from dysrhythmia after vaccine induced myocarditis, we need to reevaluate where we are in this campaign. This was not known at the EUA authorization in 2020.
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N= 25? That’s sort of my point it’s not so dangerous that theirs thousands dying and obvious deaths everywhere. It seems to be a mild statistical risks. Also as far as I could tell from that brief they did nothing to figure out if myocarditis was caused by COVID or mRNA vaccine.
I think people have died from the vaccine. I don’t have a smoking gun telling me it’s an issue disproportionately worth my time. Like I ordered an AI book today - I think figuring out how I fit in with our new AI overlords is more worth my mental energy than trying to figure out small statistical risks.
And at this point I just have COVID vaccine Super safe as primarily another example of the powers that be suppressing any information against their edicts. Another example of them lying to me.
Among the 35 cases of the University of Heidelberg, autopsies revealed other causes of death (due to pre-existing illnesses) in 10 patients (Supplementary Table 1). Hence, these were excluded from further analysis. Cardiac autopsy findings consistent with (epi-)myocarditis were found in five cases of the remaining 25 bodies found unexpectedly dead at home within 20 days following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.
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Well, this is not the statistical smoking gun I want per say.
So of 35 sudden deaths, 10 were other causes. And then of 25 sudden deaths, 5 were found to have thee abnormality. They were looking for sudden deaths from myocarditis and they found it.
Who knows. We basically agree in a bunch of domains, I just think it's still not possible to say this is a disproportionally unimportant issue.
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