Comments on: Vaccine myocarditis update from Korea https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2023/06/09/vaccine-myocarditis-update-from-korea/ Everything you always wanted to know about the Health Care system. But were afraid to ask. Tue, 13 Jun 2023 19:08:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.4 By: steve https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2023/06/09/vaccine-myocarditis-update-from-korea/#comment-1205267 Tue, 13 Jun 2023 19:08:06 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=107154#comment-1205267 I personally administered at least a 1000 shots. We didn’t have that much trouble obtaining them after the first couple of months. Anyway, as I recall, the first semi-credible reports on this issue came out on the pre-publishing site. Others followed. It wasn’t clear to me the relative risk of the vaccine vs myocarditis from a covid infection. Our medical system just isn’t good at this kind of stuff and we really need the countries with socialized medicine to step and help us with big data.

Still, your IFR from a JANUARY 2023 paper was unavailable when most vaccinations were being given and most of us thought it was higher. There are also morbidities and we know that Covid causes morbidities other than cardiac issues. One of our kids who was in the ICU for a week has had prolonged respiratory issues.

I agree that talking about this does not make you an anti-vaxxer, but the comment about the laptop class seems pretty gratuitous. Regardless, what I told my staff (I was chair of the dept) in 2021 and 2022 when we were vaccinating kids is that I didn’t think the literature gave ads a great answer yet. That if myocarditis was a concern that they should hold off on vaccinating their boys under the age of 20, especially as we had Paxlovid and the virus appeared to maybe be less toxic.

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