The Myocarditis Iceberg
Dr. Fauci gets every detail flagrantly wrong
I posted a long thread of 25 tweets summarizing what we know about myocarditis after Covid-19 infection versus vaccination. Here it is in article form.
🧵 The apotheosis of a catastrophic reign. Dr. Fauci gets every detail about myocarditis flagrantly wrong. https://t.co/ZGruSCkBmo
Alexandros Marinos 🏴☠️ @alexandrosM
Dr. Fauci says myocarditis (heart inflammation) is more common and more severe with Covid-19 infection than vaccination, which, he asserts, is extraordinarily rare and mild.
But why are cardiac problems and deaths so much more frequent in 2021 and 2022 than 2020 and before?
In 2020, the BigTen conference looked for Covid-19-related myocarditis in athletes and found 6 cases with elevated troponin levels and 5 with abnormal ECG. But no hospitalizations or bad outcomes. Satisfied, BigTen did not continue screening program. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamac…
A prospective study in American College of Cardiology by Joy et al found NO increase of myocarditis in Covid-19 infected subjects…
Then a giant Israeli study by Tuvali et al found, among 197,000, NO increased incidence among Covid-19 infected.
Studying autopsies, Fox & Vander Heide found “histologically confirmed lymphocytic myocarditis is not common in COVID-19.” Caforio found same.
@P_McCulloughMD’s conclusion pre-vaccine was that the Covid-19 virus is a “negligible risk” for myocarditis. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
Then the vaccine arrived, and Choi et al reported a fatal case of vaccine-induced myocarditis in Korea.
Gill et al reported autopsies of two male teens in Connecticut, which found vaccine-induced fatal myocarditis, 16 and 17 year olds were found at home on days 3 and 4 after Pfizer shot.
Then a paper in Circulation from Patone in the UK confirmed 100 cases of fatal vaccine-induced myocarditis.
Btw, myocarditis can raise risk of arrhythmic trouble’s immediately and for many years to come.
When the FDA and CDC were forced to admit a myocarditis problem in May 2021 — because of an independent analysis of Israeli data — they asserted a rate of around 60 per million.
So when Pfizer and Moderna asked for full FDA approval, the FDA insisted both companies do prospective cohort myocarditis studies.
Neither performed the required research.
But Thailand did: Mansanguan et al looked at 301 teen hearts both before and after Pfizer vaccination. And found a rate of myopericarditis of 2.3%.
So did Switzerland: Christian Mueller and colleagues from Basel looked at 777 healthcare workers pre- and post-Pfizer and found a significant troponin rise, signaling myocarditis, in 2.8% – this time, mostly among young and middle aged women.
@TracyBethHoeg et al had previously found around ~250 per million.
Sharff et al at Kaiser Permanente found 537 per million.
But those were indirect record searches.
The Thai and Swiss direct prospective studies found clinical+subclinical myocarditis could be more like *20,000-25,000* per million.
That’s a rate more than 300x the CDC’s early estimate and ~5,000x the background rate.
As for infection- versus vaccine-induced, a huge 23 million person study of four Nordic countries found 5x-13x more myocarditis after vaccine than infection. But even this was under -estimate because based on hospital records.
But how do we know the vaccine is causal? What’s the mechanism? The Baumeier biopsy case series found the Spike protein in the heart muscle.
Avolio et al found one possible direct mechanism of Spike damage to the heart — pericyte dysfunction leading to micro-vascular injury.
German pathologists did autopsies on 25 who died at home within 20 days of vaccination. They found 18 died of common vaccine effects (stroke, embolism, etc) and 5 probably died of vaccine-induced myocarditis (Spike protein in the inflamed heart muscle).
Yonker et al in Circulation found “markedly elevated levels of full-length Spike protein” in blood of myocarditis victims but not others. ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…
There’s also a case of fatal myocarditis with the Novavax vaccine, which also implicates the Spike protein itself because Novavax has no LNP or mRNA. Kim et al…By contrast, autopsies suggest infection-based myocarditis is not “a thing.”
Andrew Bostom, MD, MS @andrewbostom
The bio mechanism is thus more than confirmed. And it is not extraordinarily rare. Or even rare.
Moreover, the Swiss and German studies found many cases in middle aged and older people, including many women, not just young males.
mRNA vaccines generally produce vastly more Spike, for longer, in more body tissues, than infection, which is often defeated before it spreads widely.
Dr. Fauci had everything backwards.
Unfortunate epilogue: unlike most other tissues, the heart doesn’t heal, it scars.
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P.S. This thread was informed by @anish_koka, @TracyBethHoeg, @andrewbostom, @P_McCulloughMD, @AndrewFoy82, @VPrasadMDMPH, @Johnincarlisle and other cardiologists, physicians, and scientists, who may not agree w my conclusions. Thanks for their expertise and willingness to share, even when unpopular.
Cognitive warfare: get every detail wrong so that we scurry to do the work for nearly free. All opposition remains exhausted and starved. It's a sick and disturbing strategy.
Do you have a full citation for Avolio et al? I am having a hard time locating that paper.