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stupidsimpson t1_jckn8uo wrote

Reply to comment by Nanocyborgasm in Study of 1.65M COVID Vaccine Doses Finds Rare "Myocarditis" Generally Mild—More Than Half of Patients Didn't Need to be Hospitalized by Voices4Vaccines

I thought I read the risk of myocarditis was higher for people infected with the virus than those that were vaccinated, is this true?

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Nanocyborgasm t1_jckrh66 wrote

It’s true. The only cases I had seen in the last 3 years were in patients with Covid.

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Zeplar t1_jcmphyd wrote

That's the subtext of pretty much all the vaccine side effects. I don't think there has been a single side effect reported that isn't also caused, at higher rates, by infection.

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iTITAN34 t1_jckvrdk wrote

This is true. The incidence of any myocarditis post vaccine is in the neighborhood of 4 cases per 100,000 vaccinated individuals. The incidence for non-vaccinated individuals post covid infection is around 2-5 times higher depending on the study (i believe the range was due to exclusion factors of the study, i remember reading on that found a certain subdivision of patients had higher incidence and were excluded from subsequent studies)

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TheWoodConsultant t1_jclzzzv wrote

That said, the incidence rate for both infection and vaccine is extremely variable depending on age and gender (as this study clearly points out). This study was specifically looking at the age group that other studies showed the highest incidence levels from vaccines and some of the lowest rates from infections.

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