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Originally Posted by shut the front door
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This is odd. The Florida Surgeon General “can’t be silent about the truth” that there is an increased risk of cardiac problems among men aged 18-39 during the four weeks after they get an mRNA COVID vaccination. This is a bit like the calumny about The Villages having a high rate of STIs, when it was based on an increase of a much smaller number than in the surrounding areas.
To make sense of this, you have to read the eight page unpublished anonymous paper linked at the bottom of the second link above. In this case the number in this age group was increased a little, but it was still less than one tenth the number of cardiac problems in the 40-59 age group, which was not considered unusual. Again: cardiac problems are unusual among 18-39 year old men, and if they go up slightly, they are still only a tenth as many as 40-59 year old men and perhaps 3% as common as among men 60 and older.
The study also says this, which the Florida Surgeon General conveniently failed to mention: “Risk for both all-cause and cardiac-related deaths was substantially higher 28 days following COVID-19 infection. The risk associated with mRNA vaccination should be weighed against the risk associated with COVID-19 infection.” What does that mean? Yes, men in that age group have a very slightly increased chance of cardiac problems for a month after getting vaccinated, but if they DO get COVID, even a mild case, their chances are much higher!
Do your homework! Don’t just grab a headline and assume that it is true. In this case, the Florida Surgeon General is publishing something true but not very significant while failing to mention things in the same study that are much more significant.
1) There is a statistically significant risk increase of cardiac-related death only for one month among one group that has very little cardiac-related death—not for the rest of us.
2) The risk for that group and all others is substantially higher if they get COVID than if they get vaccinated.
I’m disappointed that the Florida Surgeon General would do this. How many lives will be lost because of his stunt?