A new study out of Europe has revealed that cases of heart inflammation that required hospitalization were much more common among vaccinated individuals compared to the unvaccinated.
A team of researchers from health agencies in Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway found that rates of myocarditis and pericarditis, two forms of potentially life-threatening heart inflammation, were higher in those who had received one or two doses of either mRNA-based vaccine – Pfizer’s or Moderna’s.
In all, researchers studied a total of 23.1 million records on individuals aged 12 or older between December 2020 and October 2021. In addition to the increased rate overall, the massive study confirmed the chances of developing the heart condition increased with a second dose, which mirrors other data that has been uncovered in recent months.
“Results of this large cohort study indicated that both first and second doses of mRNA vaccines were associated with increased risk of myocarditis and pericarditis. For individuals receiving 2 doses of the same vaccine, risk of myocarditis was highest among young males (aged 16-24 years) after the second dose. These findings are compatible with between 4 and 7 excess events in 28 days per 100?000 vaccinees after BNT162b2, and between 9 and 28 excess events per 100?000 vaccinees after mRNA-1273.
The risks of myocarditis and pericarditis were highest within the first 7 days of being vaccinated, were increased for all combinations of mRNA vaccines, and were more pronounced after the second dose.”
Also mirroring other data, the study confirmed that young people, especially young males, are the ones who are suffering the worst effects of the experimental jab. Young men, aged 16-24 were an astounding 5-15X more likely to be hospitalized with heart inflammation than their unvaccinated peers.
But it isn’t just young men, all age groups across both sexes – except for men over 40 and girls aged 12-15 – experienced a higher rate of heart inflammation post-vaccination when compared to the unvaxxed.
From The Epoch Times, who spoke with one of the study’s main researchers, Dr. Rickard Ljung:
“‘These extra cases among men aged 16–24 correspond to a 5 times increased risk after Comirnaty and 15 times increased risk after Spikevax compared to unvaccinated,’ Dr. Rickard Ljung, a professor and physician at the Swedish Medical Products Agency and one of the principal investigators of the study, told The Epoch Times in an email.
Comirnaty is the brand name for Pfizer’s vaccine while Spikevax is the brand name for Moderna’s jab.
Rates were also higher among the age group for those who received any dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, both of which utilize mRNA technology. And rates were elevated among vaccinated males of all ages after the first or second dose, except for the first dose of Moderna’s shot for those 40 or older, and females 12- to 15-years-old.”
Although the peer-reviewed study found a direct link between mRNA based vaccines and increased incident rate of heart inflammation, the researchers claimed that the “benefits” of the experimental vaccines still “outweigh the risks of side effects,” because cases of heart inflammation are “very rare,” in a press conference about their findings earlier this month.
However, while overall case numbers may be low in comparison to the raw numbers and thus technically “very rare,” the rate at which individuals are developing this serious condition has increased by a whopping amount. When considering the fact that 5-15X more, otherwise healthy, young men will come down with the condition – especially since the chances of Covid-19 killing them at that age are effectively zero (99.995% recovery rate) – it’s downright criminal for governments across the world to continue pushing mass vaccinations for everyone.
Dr. Peter McCullough, a world-renowned Cardiologist who has been warning about the long-term horror show that is vaccine-induced myocarditis in young people, certainly thinks so. In his expert opinion, the study does anything but give confidence that the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the risks. In “no way” is that the case, he says. Actually, it’s quite the opposite.
“In cardiology we spend our entire career trying to save every bit of heart muscle. We put in stents, we do heart catheterization, we do stress tests, we do CT angiograms. The whole game of cardiology is to preserve heart muscle. Under no circumstances would we accept a vaccine that causes even one person to stay sustain heart damage. Not one. And this idea that ‘oh, we’re going to ask a large number of people to sustain heart damage for some other theoretical benefit for a viral infection,’ which for most is less than a common cold, is untenable. The benefits of the vaccines in no way outweigh the risks.”
It’s also worth pointing out that the new study’s findings could be an indicator as to what is driving the massive spike in the excess death rates in the United States and across the world. Correlating exactly with the rollout of the experimental mRNA Covid-19 vaccines, people have been dying at record-breaking rates, especially millennials, who experienced a jaw-dropping 84% increase in excess deaths (compared to pre-pandemic) in the final four months of 2021.
With all the data that has been made available up to this point, there is no denying that the vaccine is at least partially to blame for the spike in severe illness and death, if not entirely. Nevertheless, the CDC, Fauci, Biden, and the rest of the corrupt establishment continue to push mass vaccines, just approved another booster jab (with plans for another already in the works), and are licking their chops to unleash another round of Covid hysteria and crippling restrictions come this fall.
'GRADE' Methods applied to meta-analysis of Moderna & Pfizer RCTs, rating Quality of evidence: we strongly recommend 'against use' of COVID mRNA vaccines to reduce mortality, very low-quality evidence
mRNA vaccine trial data submitted to FDA for EUA, combined in meta-analysis to improve precision and power, finding very low certainty evidence against the use of mRNA vaccines
A recently reported Danish study by Stabell Benn et al. (not yet peer-reviewed) sought to unravel the impact of mRNA and adenoviral vector COVID vaccines on mortality outcomes and found that the mRNA vaccines failed to save lives (RR 1.03, 95% CI 0.63 to 1.71). A clear benefit was however seen for the adenoviral vector COVID vaccine (RR 0.37, 95% CI 0.19 to 0.70). Their analysis was based on available data and while still pre-print, it has had very serious review by senior global scientists/epidemiologists who have pronounced that the rigor and quality is sufficient. The key is this, that the mRNA vaccines do not confer COVID mortality benefit while the adeno-viral vector vaccine do.
Dr. Martin Kulldorff (prominent vaccine scientist) then commented on this pooled Danish study with a very powerful and crisp commentary, asking a very important question: Have populations been mandated vaccines that fail to save lives and just do not work? I am particularly concerned as a skeptic and contrarian given these mRNA vaccines have now been shown to be ineffective on the Delta and Omicron variants and not properly safe. The Pfizer and Moderna COVID mRNA vaccines do not sterilize the virus (are non-neutralizing as based on the initial Wuhan legacy strain and as such do not match the current variants (spike protein)) in that they do not prevent infection, replication, or transmission. If a vaccine does not cut the chain of transmission in a pandemic of infectious disease, then it cannot achieve herd immunity and is essentially failed.
With this background in place, this analysis by me sought to replicate the Danish finding (conducting the actual meta-analysis) as well as apply GRADE methods to rate the quality of the mortality evidence, culminating in a recommendation for or against the use of the mRNA vaccine in reducing mortality. I also include a rudimentary background on GRADE and apply what can be called ‘GRADE lite’. I simply wished to assess what a GRADE type application to the existing trial data (limited as it may be and of poor methodological quality) would look like since the folk in the EBM world will not apply their expertise to the current body of evidence.
The findings as you see below, cuts against their (medical community, academic scientists, EBMers, CDC, NIH etc.) narrative for two years and certainly on the vaccines. I have learnt that the medical/clinician and academic research community actually practices ‘do not bite the hand that feeds you’ very, very well. They are experts at it. The ‘hand’ is the research grants hand, salaries, career positions etc. To advance their agenda, the key is their agenda, and it is led by the CDC (and the NIH/NIAID), who in the US functions as a political arm of government.
The CDC worked under the Trump administration to undermine him, while works under the Biden administration to support him. They use the MMWR reports to hurt an administration as they wish to and do it by producing bogus incomplete reports with only some of the data and with biased unclear misleading conclusions. They mislead the public and whom within the government they wish to mislead. The data they withheld is not only the 18-49 years old triple booster vaccine data (this is what we have come to know of, there is major more swept under the rug), they are withholding major data and have been doing this all along and IMO it is a real crime. They must be held to account. The reticence by the FDA to make the data available to the public for 55 to 75 years was shocking and showed that there is serious information there that shows much wrong they did. The FDA, CDC, NIH, Pfizer, Moderna and all of their leaders like Bourla and Bancel etc. must be at some point accountable. It must be investigated.
A peer-reviewed study from researchers in France has concluded that both the experimental Pfizer and Moderna vaccines significantly increase the risk of myocarditis compared to the unvaccinated.
While both mRNA therapies were found to be linked to the life-threatening heart condition, the Moderna jabs results were particularly shocking, especially among young adults, as researchers found the risk for myocarditis diagnosis following the Moderna jab was 44 times higher risk for individuals aged 18 to 24 years old.
As for Pfizer’s jab – which fared better, but not by much – the same age group experienced a 13x elevated risk for the serious condition, according to the study that was published last week in the scientific journal, “Nature.”
The new data mirrors several other recent studies that show a link between the treatments and numerous severe medical complications in addition to myocarditis, including, but not limited to, pulmonary embolism, blood clots, and even “sudden” death.
From the study:
[color=red]The largest associations are observed for myocarditis following mRNA-1273 vaccination in persons aged 18 to 24 years [Moderna 44x increase, Pfizer 13x increase][/color]. Estimates of excess cases attributable to vaccination also reveal a substantial burden of both myocarditis and pericarditis across other age groups and in both males and females.
The risk of myocarditis was substantially increased within the first week post vaccination in both males and females (Fig. 1 and Table S2). Odds-ratios associated with the second dose of the mRNA-1273 vaccine were consistently the highest, with values up to 44 (95% CI, 22–88) and 41 (95% CI, 12–140), respectively in males and females aged 18 to 24 years but remaining high in older age groups.
While young people experienced the worst reaction to the mRNA vaccines, researchers demonstrated, as has been done across multiple studies, that the risk was elevated across all age groups and it is highest around 1-week post-vaccination.
Overall, the Pfizer and Moderna jabs were associated with an 8x and a 30x increase in myocarditis risk, respectively, when compared to the unvaccinated, according to the study.
Individuals were also found to be at a greater risk of developing pericarditis, a similar and less severe, but still serious, heart condition. However, the increase was not nearly as high, at 2.9x for Pfizer and 5.5x for Moderna.
Conversely, the risk of myocarditis was also found to be elevated by 9x in those who have been infected with the Covid-19 virus. It is unclear whether or not vaccination status was factored in for this cohort.
From the study:
We perform matched case-control studies and find increased risks of myocarditis and pericarditis during the first week following vaccination, and particularly after the second dose, with adjusted odds ratios of myocarditis of 8.1 (95% confidence interval [CI], 6.7 to 9.9) for the BNT162b2 [Pfizer] and 30 (95% CI, 21 to 43) for the mRNA-1273 [Moderna] vaccine.
The association was stronger for the mRNA-1273 vaccine with odds-ratios of 3.0 (95% CI, 1.4–6.2) for the first dose and 30 (95% CI, 21–43) for the second. The risk of pericarditis was increased in the seven days following the second dose of both vaccines, with odds ratios of 2.9 (95% CI, 2.3–3.8) for the BNT162b2 vaccine and 5.5 (95% CI, 3.3–9.0) for the mRNA-1273 vaccine.
In other words, that ‘cure’ for the virus that’s nominally worse than the seasonal flu (99.95 recovery rate overall, 99.995% among children and young people) is more likely to put recipients into the hospital with a crippling heart condition than keeping them from being hospitalized with Covid.
And, not just a little more likely, either. Another recently published study found that for every one person the Pfizer vaccine keeps out of the hospital, five (!) people will suffer a “severe adverse reaction” – aka. a serious vaccine injury.
It’s worth pointing out that the 5 to 1 ratio is only related to the Pfizer jab and it’s 13x increase in myocarditis risk. At 44x, Moderna’s ratio of severe adverse events would likely be even greater.
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Unbelievably, the risk increase for the severe heart condition might even be higher than the data that the new French study shows, as researchers were limited to pulling information strictly from hospital discharge records. These records likely underscored the true number of myocarditis cases because they do not include those whose symptoms were not severe enough to be hospitalized or those who might have died suddenly before checking into a healthcare facility.
What’s more – the study only looked at those with one- and two-dose vaccinations and did not analyze the effect the booster jab had on the risk of myocarditis because it is not yet recommended for young adults in the country. This could also indicate that the true risk increase is higher, as other data has shown that with more mRNA doses, the higher the chance of developing complications.
One of the study’s authors, Dr. Sanjay Verma, even warned as much, stating that the excluded data “may yield even higher risk than reported.”
From Dr. Verma, who spoke with The Epoch Times about the French study:
“There have been reports (pdf) of autopsy-proven myocarditis after vaccination and anecdotal evidence of patients being dismissed by ER and never being hospitalized. Adjusting for these excluded subsets may yield even higher risk than reported in this study. Follow-up of the patients in this study was limited to one month after discharge. However, a previous cardiac MRI study found about 75 percent of patients with vaccine-associated myocarditis can have persistent MRI abnormalities 3–8 months after initial diagnosis.”
Dr. Verma also slammed the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for misleading the public about the true incidence rate of myocarditis and its relation to the experimental vaccine. According to the expert cardiologist, the CDC has been “erroneously suggest[ing]” that the risk of myocarditis after Covid infection is higher than it is following mRNA injection – something his data, and others, have thoroughly disproven.
Nevertheless, the CDC and the public health ‘experts’ refuse to divert from the course.
Dr. Verma continued:
“Both SARS-CoV2 infection and COVID mRNA vaccines have been associated with myocarditis. Knowing the spike protein’s affinity to ACE2 receptors in the heart and spike protein’s injury to cardiomyocytes (cells of the heart), the association of myocarditis with SARS-CoV2 virus or spike protein-based mRNA vaccination was not entirely unexpected.
For the cases of myocarditis after SARS-CoV2, CDC uses officially confirmed PCR+ ‘cases,’ even though their own seroprevalence data demonstrates that far more people have been infected than officially conformed PCR+ ‘cases.’ For example, seroprevalence data as of Feb 21, 2022, reveals 75 percent (about 54 million) of all children have been infected compared to 12 million officially confirmed PCR+ ‘cases’ (i.e., the actual number of kids infected is 4.5 times greater than PCR+ ‘cases’). Therefore, calculating the risk of myocarditis after SARS-CoV2 infection, the rate noted by CDC would therefore need to be reduced by 4.5 times. Thus far, CDC has not adjusted its COVID-19 morbidity and mortality data accordingly.”
To download the new *peer-reviewed* French study, it can be found here.