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.
Bret Swanson@JBSay
🧵 The apotheosis of a catastrophic reign. Dr. Fauci gets every detail about myocarditis flagrantly wrong. https://t.co/ZGruSCkBmo
Alexandros Marinos 🏴☠️ @alexandrosM
Anthony Fauci disinforms the public about the relative incidence of myocarditis from COVID vs myocarditis from the vaccine. And in the context of the football player being discussed, omits mentioning that young men are the highest risk demographic for vaccine-caused myocarditis. https://t.co/5y1ZeettN5
4:46 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
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.
4:48 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
But why are cardiac problems and deaths so much more frequent in 2021 and 2022 than 2020 and before?
bit.ly
Where Did All the Workers Go?
4:48 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
In 2017, Arola et al found a baseline myocarditis rate of 4 per million in young people.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Occurrence and Features of Childhood Myocarditis: A Nationwide Study in Finland - PubMed
4:48 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
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…
4:48 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
A prospective study in American College of Cardiology by Joy et al found NO increase of myocarditis in Covid-19 infected subjects…
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Prospective Case-Control Study of Cardiovascular Abnormalities 6 Months Following Mild COVID-19 in Healthcare Workers - PubMed
4:48 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
Then a giant Israeli study by Tuvali et al found, among 197,000, NO increased incidence among Covid-19 infected.
mdpi.com
The Incidence of Myocarditis and Pericarditis in Post COVID-19 Unvaccinated Patients—A Large Population-Based Study
4:48 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
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…
4:48 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
Then the vaccine arrived, and Choi et al reported a fatal case of vaccine-induced myocarditis in Korea.
4:48 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
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.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Autopsy Histopathologic Cardiac Findings in 2 Adolescents Following the Second COVID-19 Vaccine Dose - PubMed
4:48 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
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.
4:48 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
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.
4:48 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
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.
4:48 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
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%.
mdpi.com
Cardiovascular Manifestation of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine in Adolescents
4:48 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
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.
m.youtube.com
Subclinical Myocarditis - NEW Report from Switzerland - Vital Findings
4:48 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
@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.
4:48 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
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.
4:48 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
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.
jamanetwork.com
SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and Myocarditis in a Nordic Cohort Study of 23 Million Residents
4:48 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
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.
mdpi.com
Intramyocardial Inflammation after COVID-19 Vaccination: An Endomyocardial Biopsy-Proven Case Series
4:48 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
Avolio et al found one possible direct mechanism of Spike damage to the heart — pericyte dysfunction leading to micro-vascular injury.
portlandpress.com
The SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein disrupts human cardiac pericytes function through CD147 receptor-mediated signalling: a potential non-infective mechanism of COVID-19 microvascular disease
4:48 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
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).
link.springer.com
Autopsy-based histopathological characterization of myocarditis after anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination - Clinical Research in Cardiology
4:48 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
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…
4:48 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
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
@TracyBethHoeg @JAMACardio @drdrew @contrarian4data @anish_koka Autopsy data raise serious concerns about the basic validity of "C19 myocarditis," as a phenomenon; In stark contrast, autopsy studies validate post-C19 mRNA vaccine myocarditis as real phenomenon. Such fundamental differences cannot be ignored when "comparing" the 2 https://t.co/5K9gPNEZOx
4:48 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
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.
4:48 AM · Jan 27, 2023
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Bret Swanson@JBSay
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.