Articles tagged with: Myocarditis

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Claim that myocarditis from COVID-19 vaccines carries serious risk of death is based on flawed study

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Study shows myocarditis from COVID-19 vaccination carries serious risk of death

SOURCE: Joseph Mackinnon, The Blaze

Published: 08 Feb 2024

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Swiss study doesn’t show that Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccine is dangerous for the heart, John Campbell and The Gateway Pundit exaggerated the study’s conclusions

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“1 in 35 people showed signs of heart damage after taking the Moderna COVID19 vaccine”; it is a “kill shot”; taking “this kind of risk, it’s just complete madness”

SOURCE: John Campbell, Jim Hoft, YouTube, The Gateway Pundit

Published: 08 Aug 2023

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Vaccination recruits both the innate and adaptive immune system; COVID-19 vaccines are safe for children

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“clearly [COVID-19] vaccines are dangerous for kids”, they cause myocarditis; children are protected from COVID-19 by innate immunity which is bypassed by vaccination

SOURCE: Michelle Perro, Joseph Mercola, Instagram

Published: 28 Mar 2023

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Findings from researchers in Basel didn’t show an 800-fold increase in myocarditis in vaccinated people compared to unvaccinated individuals

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“The risk of myocarditis is 800 times higher for vaccinated than unvaccinated young adults, according to a recent Swiss study”

SOURCE: Kyle Becker, Trending Politics

Published: 29 Nov 2022

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Multiple studies showed that COVID-19 increases the risk of heart inflammation more than vaccines do; study in Israel misleadingly used to claim otherwise

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Israeli study showed that COVID-19 doesn’t increase the risk of heart inflammation

SOURCE: Marina Medvin, Twitter

Published: 16 Nov 2022

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Japan preprint on myocarditis used inadequate methods to suggest COVID-19 vaccines cause more myocarditis deaths

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“SARS-CoV-2 vaccination was associated with higher risk of myocarditis death [...] risk of myocarditis following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination may be more serious than that reported previously”

SOURCE: Zachary Stieber, Stephen Hussey, The Epoch Times, Instagram

Published: 03 Nov 2022

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Analysis by Florida Department of Health about COVID-19 mRNA vaccines contains multiple methodological problems

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Florida study found that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines increase the risk of cardiac-related death, especially in men

SOURCE: Joseph Ladapo, Fox News, Twitter

Published: 13 Oct 2022

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Article by cardiologist Aseem Malhotra made unsupported claims about the benefits and risks of COVID-19 vaccination

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mRNA COVID-19 vaccines might do more harm than good

SOURCE: Aseem Malhotra, Journal of Insulin Resistance

Published: 06 Oct 2022

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The benefits of COVID-19 vaccines in preventing severe disease and other complications outweigh the risk of myocarditis, which is higher after COVID-19 itself

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“they were not able to find a single healthy child in america that died from COVID-19 […] but one in every 2700 people are getting myocarditis”; “athletes are collapsing on playing fields as for myocarditis and it's from the vaccines”; Moderna patent filed in 2019 is linked to the pandemic

SOURCE: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., This Past Weekend with Theo Von

Published: 18 May 2022

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Higher myocarditis risk after COVID-19 than mRNA vaccination; contrary to Peter McCullough’s claim, young persons decrease their risk by getting vaccinated

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“We have 21,000 cases of myocarditis and climbing. […] Under no circumstances, should a young person ever receive one of these vaccines”

SOURCE: Peter McCullough, Instagram, Facebook

Published: 09 Apr 2022

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