I have generally been refraining from posting in the Vaccine thread because I know how much people love to hear anything about the vaccines, but still the anomalies roll on and I keep a watching brief. This is one item that has been attracting my attention recently.
Firstly, this study followed 196,996 unvaccinated people who experienced Covid in Israel from March 2020 to January 2021. It matched with a large cohort of about half a million people.
Abstract -
Myocarditis and pericarditis are potential post-acute cardiac sequelae of COVID-19 infection, arising from adaptive immune responses. We aimed to study the incidence of post-acute COVID-19 myocarditis and pericarditis. Retrospective cohort study of 196,992 adults after COVID-19 infection in Clalit Health Services members in Israel between March 2020 and January 2021.
Inpatient myocarditis and pericarditis diagnoses were retrieved from day 10 after positive PCR. Follow-up was censored on 28 February 2021, with minimum observation of 18 days. The control cohort of 590,976 adults with at least one negative PCR and no positive PCR were age- and sex-matched. Since the Israeli vaccination program was initiated on 20 December 2020, the time-period matching of the control cohort was calculated backward from 15 December 2020. Nine post-COVID-19 patients developed myocarditis (0.0046%), and eleven patients were diagnosed with pericarditis (0.0056%). In the control cohort, 27 patients had myocarditis (0.0046%) and 52 had pericarditis (0.0088%). Age (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR] 0.96, 95% confidence interval [CI]; 0.93 to 1.00) and male sex (aHR 4.42; 95% CI, 1.64 to 11.96) were associated with myocarditis. Male sex (aHR 1.93; 95% CI 1.09 to 3.41) and peripheral vascular disease (aHR 4.20; 95% CI 1.50 to 11.72) were associated with pericarditis.
Post COVID-19 infection was not associated with either myocarditis (aHR 1.08; 95% CI 0.45 to 2.56) or pericarditis (aHR 0.53; 95% CI 0.25 to 1.13). We did not observe an increased incidence of neither pericarditis nor myocarditis in adult patients recovering from COVID-19 infection
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/11/8/2219
Basically the large study did not find Covid increased myocarditis or pericarditis above expected background levels.
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Secondly, also from Israel, and published on Nature.com. This study measured reports of emergency call outs for cardiac events in younger people in Israel between January - May 2021 and compared that level to records from previous years.
Using a unique dataset from Israel National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) from 2019 to 2021, the study aims to evaluate the association between the volume of cardiac arrest and acute coronary syndrome EMS calls in the 16–39-year-old population with potential factors including COVID-19 infection and vaccination rates. An increase of over 25% was detected in both call types during January–May 2021, compared with the years 2019–2020. Using Negative Binomial regression models, the weekly emergency call counts were significantly associated with the rates of 1st and 2nd vaccine doses administered to this age group but were not with COVID-19 infection rates. While not establishing causal relationships, the findings raise concerns regarding vaccine-induced undetected severe cardiovascular side-effects and underscore the already established causal relationship between vaccines and myocarditis, a frequent cause of unexpected cardiac arrest in young individuals. Surveillance of potential vaccine side-effects and COVID-19 outcomes should incorporate EMS and other health data to identify public health trends (e.g., increased in EMS calls), and promptly investigate potential underlying causes.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10928-z
The study found an increase of 25% of increased emergency cardiovascular events among under-40 population in Israel during vaccine rollout and third COVID-19 wave.
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Thirdly, and this is just one example of many reports I have seen recently from various parts of the world eg Alberta, Western Australia. It is a chart compiled as result of figures retrieved under a Freedom of Information request by Duncan Husband to NHS West Midlands Ambulance service in the UK. It shows a big increase in cardiac emergency call outs for the under 30 population. This increase is not at all as marked during 2020 when we already did have Covid (the supposedly stronger variants). It really starts to increase mid 2021, when vaccines are being rolled out to younger cohorts.
Feel free to give reasons for this - it could be more alcohol, more eating, less movement, increased fear, more drugs, depression. Of course it could be any of these things. But it could also be related to mRNA therapy which seems to have more risk in younger than in older cohorts. Personally for what it's worth I find the figures in the graphs alarming and these are just for one small area of the world, the west midlands, one of 10 ambulance services in the UK, serving 5.6 million people.
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The Freedom of information request -
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ ... nditionsst
). The first cold I have had for 3 years or more and the least impact for decades!
