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https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA....

Pick your poison, then.

1. Risk of Myocarditis is higher for males under 40 from the vax than from infection. Only if you look at the entire population and dilute that risk do you see risk being higher from infection.

2. The vax doesn’t prevent infection anyway, so whatever the point they are making is moot.

3. The risk is being compounded each time- first from vax, then from infection, then from boosters.

Btw, this was all known with increasing confidence by July '21 (Israeli data showed increased myocarditis risk after second shot), and December '21 (Nature paper stratified myocarditis risk by vaccination status and age).

> Overall, the risk of myocarditis is greater after SARS-CoV-2 infection than after COVID-19 vaccination and remains modest after sequential doses including a booster dose of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine. However, the risk of myocarditis after vaccination is higher in younger men, particularly after a second dose of the mRNA-1273 vaccine.

An Israeli study reported here: https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/07/08/no-increase-myocarditi... [‘The Incidence of Myocarditis and Pericarditis in Post COVID-19 Unvaccinated Patients—A Large Population-Based Study’.] finds “no increase in incidence of myocarditis” after Covid infection in unvaccinated adults.

And the peak age/sex related risk is almost certainly understated in the paper, because ‘younger men’ refers to the entire under 40 population.

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