The data they went over today showed that the overwhelming majority of myocarditis cases in young males occur shortly after the second dose.
For example, in a group of 18-24 year olds they tracked for 7 days
after dose 1 of an mRNA vaccine, they expected* to see 1-11 myocarditis
cases; they observed 41 cases.
Tracking the same group for 7 days after the second dose of mRNA
vaccine, they expected to see 1-8 cases; instead they observed 219
cases. What is that, a 27 times higher rate of myocarditis than you
would expect to see?
See slides 26 and 28 of this presentation by Tom Shimabukuro, MD, MPH, MBA,
Vaccine Safety Team, CDC COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force for more details.
* Based on Gubernot et al. U.S. Population-Based background
incidence rates of medical conditions for use in safety assessment of
COVID-19 vaccines.
Myocardial cells are one of the types of cells in our bodies that
are not readily reproducible. Other examples of this are brain and nerve
cells. They just simply do not turn over.
There are organs that are made up of cells that are able to turn
over but just do it when they absolutely need to – examples here would
be the liver and all the endocrine glands.
Then there are parts of the body that turn over for a living daily
and do so intensely – examples would be the skin and the lining of the
GI system.
Because the myocardium does not reproduce itself, the amount of the
initial damage from myocarditis is critical. FYI, the same thing
happens in an acute MI – the dead part is just dead – and will forever
be dead. The remaining undamaged tissue has the
ability to “remodel” and take up some of the slack but the person will
never have the same heart.
To sum it up – with these cases of myocarditis – it is unlike an MI
in that the damage is not confined to one area.
The damage tends to be
global throughout the heart all at once. Recovery is absolutely
dependent on how bad that damage is. If recognized
and treated early – it is possible to mitigate the damage somewhat
depending on what all is involved. Some patients recover reasonably well
because the damage was just not that severe. However, many times in my
life, I have seen these patients struggle with
heart failure symptoms from the moment it happens. We can help this with
meds to some degree – and the rhythm problems can be helped with meds
and defibrillators – but the patients will never be the same.
I have been staggered by the reports I am reading from all over
about these COVID vaccine young people – and the startling number of
them that are having to be transplanted.
The very concerning thing – there are now hospitals all over
America where there are more admissions to the hospital from this COVID
vaccine related myocarditis than ever were with the whole 18 months of
COVID. I am referring only to the 12-17 age group.
NOT THE WHOLE POPULATION. Unfortunately, this now includes my hospital –
with zero 12-17 aged COVID admissions this whole time – and we have now
had our very first teen admitted critically ill with myocarditis 3 days
after the 2nd shot.
I was on a Zoom conference yesterday about this issue – a very
“elder statesman” ethics professor ended the discussion of this
myocarditis issue and I almost started tearing up – our standards have
fallen so far – he simply stated – the medical ethical
principles of beneficience and non-harm are overwhelming in this case.
If the CDC/FDA fails to act to protect these young people – let the word
go forth – this profession has lost its way, it is corrupt to the core –
and is now being run only in the interests
of the corporations and not the patients.
I am not “in the know” – I do not have any access to any deliberations or information that the public itself does not know.
But I have to say – I could not agree with this gentleman more. We
are hearing a lot today that this age group is going to be the new
reservoir of the variants and unless vaccinated will be the downfall of
us all – all I can say is EVIDENCE PLEASE –
When I read reports in the media the past few days about this issue
– and on comments on social media – there is quite a bit of conflating
of data. We compare the vaccine side effects in this age group vs the
incidence of COVID and COVID deaths NOT JUST
in that age group but the entire population. That is just one example.
The further confounding issue is in this age group – basically
teenagers – the case numbers are likely very very high – indeed – I
would not be surprised if upwards of 2/3 of them are “case numbers” and
not deaths or hospitalizations – because they so
vanishingly rarely ever get sick with COVID and certainly not ending up
dying. But yet have been positive and therefore a case number. Making
vaccination even more questionable. I would say your 141 thousand case
number is too small by orders of magnitude.
I know this because all year – I have had family clusters and
school clusters pre and post vaccine – and almost invariably the
teenagers and kids were postiive and completely asymptomatic. It is very
likely that the vast majority of them were positive
and never came to attention. They just simply do not get sick or just
minimally so.
With regard to the death counts. My state has less than 10 teens
dying of COVID for the entire past year. When the state medical examiner
actually did a deep dive on these cases – only 2 were ever determined
to actually have died FROM COVID – all the others
were suicides, traumas, etc that died WITH COVID. The 2 who actually did
die were both kids with severe issues – across the country cystic
fibrosis, sickle cell, and other immunocompetence disorders have been
the mainstay of this group. In general, under age
20 just do not die or get hospitalized with this problem – it is very
very very unusual – and they almost universally have some kind of severe
co-morbidity.
The incidence of admission and morbidity with these vaccines with
relation to this myocarditis is actually higher than the COVID issues.
Anyone who tries to “statistics” their way out of that fact is LYING to
you. The CDC readily admits that their myocarditis
numbers are very likely way undercounted. And still their numbers are
indicating a rise in myocarditis from baseline between 25-200 times
higher in this age group. In many people with any kind of myocarditis –
they may never know about it because their cardiac
reserve is so excellent at their younger age. As these people age and
lose that reserve, we may be looking at this problem to be with us for
some time.
In general – the rules and tenets of medical ethics are universal
and not dependent on the times. There are very specific tenets that do
take into account community and population issues vs individual issues
like we deal with in pandemics. I could not
even begin to go into it here – but the numbers are simply not there for
these kids to be taking the risk for the benefit of society – they just
simply are not. The risk/benefit to them and the benefit to society
just do not match up. If this was a much more
deadly disease – or other issues that were different – that may change
the calculus.
One thing that would change the calculus that is being trumpeted to
the heavens today as I have pointed out – is if there was evidence that
leaving them unvaccinated would cause them to be a reservoir. The fact
that these vaccines appear to be NON STERILIZING
( not stopping transmission) in the real world makes that point
completely mute. But it is getting real mileage out there today.
That is why I asked for EVIDENCE PLEASE of that assertion.
I hate to say this – but say it I must. I have sat and watched the
Pharma industry lie, manipulate, pretty up and just make up statistical
numbers for 30 years of my life. In every conceivable way. I have sat
through hours of journal clubs and gatherings
to discuss this with colleagues. Medical statistics and epidemiology –
are very very difficult to learn and apply (lots of confounding) – but
because of the presence of certain statistical methods are very easy for
marketing firms to really manipulate. THEY
ARE DOING THIS NOW IN SPADES. This time, it is not just for an audience
of doctors – it is for the whole country. Certainly, people in the media
know this – and know exactly what Pharma is doing – but the marketing
and manipulation just keeps flowing out to
the public.
I have just about given up.
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