Thu Jun 30, 2022 – 10:49 am EDTThu Jun 30, 2022 – 10:50 am EDT
(The Daily Sceptic) – The risk of being hospitalized with heart inflammation is up to 44 times higher following COVID vaccination, a study in Nature has found.
The study, which examined the vaccination status of all 1,612 hospital cases of myocarditis and 1,613 hospital cases of pericarditis in France between May 12 and October 31, 2021, found that the risk of being hospitalized with myocarditis was 8.1 times higher in the week following a second dose of the Pfizer mRNA shot (95 percent confidence interval [CI], 6.7 to 9.9) and 30 times higher following a second dose of Moderna’s jab (CI, 21 to 43).
When the findings are broken down by age, elevated risks are found in younger adults. In the week following a Moderna second dose, the risk for males aged 18-24 was 44 times higher (CI, 22–88) and for females was 41 times higher (CI, 12–140).
The risk following a Pfizer second dose decreased with age, peaking at 18 times higher in males aged 12-17 (CI, 9–35), whereas the risk from the higher-dose Moderna vaccine did not decrease with age. The results
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