This study could have been done two years ago…
Most of the victims had no idea they were affected and wouldn’t have gone to a doctor to get a blood test.
The new study shows the power of active surveillance for vaccine related injuries. The incidence of vaccine-induced myocardial injury (or heart damage) was estimated from hospitalization data to be 0.0035%. But a new trial which tested everyone who got an mRNA vaccine estimates it’s a thousand times higher or nearly 3%, and possibly much more common in young women than we thought.
As John Campbell says, “it’s off the scale risk in heathcare”. “I would have run a mile”. “The only way you’d take this kind of risk in heathcare is if you were avoiding certain death. It’s complete madness”. Campbell argues that from now on everyone being offered an injection should be warned that one study showed as many as 1 in 35 people got vaccine associated myocardial injury. Otherwise it’s not informed consent.
On the plus side, they told all the people with abnormally high scores not to do strenuous exercise which could put them at risk of a life-threatening arrhythmia. And the cases appeared to be transient and no one had a major cardiac event — possibly because they were warned not to exercise. Since physical exertion “further propagates myocardial damage in athletes with myocarditis” this warning may have helped resolve the myocarditis as well as preventing heart attacks. (Hurwitz and Issa)
The trial was about as good it gets. The mystery is why no one did this two years ago, except of course that a $100 billion dollars of profits depended on them not finding things like this out.
Buergin, and Lopez-Ayala et al took 777 people who were vaccinated and didn’t wait for anyone to report a problem, instead they did blood tests 3 days later to look for damage to heart muscle cells, and check antibodies and inflammatory cytokines. Of the 777 injectees, only two had chest pain, but 40 had raised troponin levels — meaning their heart tissue had been silently damaged. Of those 40 at risk — about half went on to have a defined case of “vaccine-associated myocardial injury”.
In another surprise, most of the victims were women — fully 20 out of 22. Up til now, we thought myocarditis was more common in young men, but perhaps that’s not the case? Women made up 70% of the healthcare workers in the trial but 90% of the victims.
Safe and Effective…
From a paper in 2020 about myocarditis we see that before anyone was given a Covid vaccine we already knew that athletes who developed myocarditis would be the most at risk, that it could kill them, and the best treatment is to avoid exercise:
Myocarditis is an inflammation of the myocardium that can often be associated with cardiac dysfunction and arrhythmias, and is even one of the leading causes for sudden cardiac death (SCD) in athletes.
Physical exertion is likely a trigger for dangerous arrythmias and further propagates myocardial damage in athletes with myocarditis. For this reason, abstinence from sports is a critical facet of management in the initial inflammatory period. The use of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, specifically late gadolinium enhancement, to guide return to play decisions is becoming more common in clinical practice. — Hurwitz and Issa.
REFERENCES
Buergin, Lopez-Ayala et al (2023) Sex-specific differences in myocardial injury incidence after COVID-19 mRNA-1273 Booster Vaccination, Eur J Heart Fail, . 2023 Jul 20. PMID: 37470105 DOI: 10.1002/ejhf.2978
Hurwitz and Issa (2020) Management and Treatment of Myocarditis in Athletes, Curr Treat Options Cardiovasc Med. 2020; 22(12): 65. Published online 2020 Nov 4. doi: 10.1007/s11936-020-00875-1
h/t Another Ian via Small Dead Animals, Honk R Smith, Stephen Neil.