As someone whose heart was damaged by Rheumatic Fever, this looks fairly similar between what we’re seeing with Covid and Covid Vaccinations (heart inflammation)- immune response going after the body’s own proteins:
* Pfizer-BioNTech - 145 cases of myocarditis and 138 cases of pericarditis out of 177m doses given
* Moderna - 19 case of myocarditis and 19 cases of pericarditis out of 20 million doses given
Five people died. The review said they were all either elderly or had other health conditions.
For males age 16-17 the reporting rate of myopericarditis after 2 doses of Pfizer is 71.5 per 1 million doses administered (0.0071%) [1].
For males aged 18-24 the reporting rate after 2 doses of Pfizer or Moderna is ~37 per 1 million doses (0.0037%).
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-...
I’m genuinely curious as I haven’t been able to find a good comparison on my own but I have read that damage to heart tissue is a potential long-term complication resulting from natural infection.
> Representing 13 universities, cardiovascular testing was performed in 1597 athletes (964 men [60.4%]). Thirty-seven (including 27 men) were diagnosed with COVID-19 myocarditis (overall 2.3%; range per program, 0%-7.6%); 9 had clinical myocarditis and 28 had subclinical myocarditis. If cardiac testing was based on cardiac symptoms alone, only 5 athletes would have been detected (detected prevalence, 0.31%). Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging for all athletes yielded a 7.4-fold increase in detection of myocarditis (clinical and subclinical). Follow-up CMR imaging performed in 27 (73.0%) demonstrated resolution of T2 elevation in all (100%) and late gadolinium enhancement in 11 (40.7%).
[1] Prevalence of Clinical and Subclinical Myocarditis in Competitive Athletes With Recent SARS-CoV-2 Infection https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/...
However, antibiotics are used to help prevent one from getting Rheumatic Fever from the bacteria.