When people talk about the corruption of science and medicine, this willful misrepresentation by Gounder et al is part of what they have in mind. It puts the mission of treating and curing people in the background by turning the vaccines, for example, into an ideological, politicized battlefield.
For many doctors and other experts, I think they just trust and support the official narrative without putting any thought into it, and are more than happy to pass along any potential evidence that their side is "right" instead of critically evaluating the data. It's human nature to accept as true anything that supports your prior beliefs and biases - you have to challenge yourself to question evidence that you agree with.
Thank you. I think a really key point is this one:
"In addition, since the Covid vaccination doesn’t prevent you from getting Covid, you could get vaccinated and still have risk of myocarditis after Covid."
I wonder about this a lot. Is there ANY study that can quantify whether and to what extent "covid after vaccination" leads to less myocarditis than covid after prior infection or, for arguments sake, covid before any exposure (even though ~no one left in this category, but of historical importance.) Seems like a critical data point for all the people who have a knee jerk reaction to this topic by saying "but covid myocarditis is worse."
There was at least one study that showed somewhat lower rates of post-Covid myocarditis in vaccinated people, but that wasn't the main focus of the study, so there is limited data analysis for that finding. Also, that study is also limited in that it only considered Covid infections with a positive Covid-19 test reported to the UK's Covid surveillance system. https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.059970
When people talk about the corruption of science and medicine, this willful misrepresentation by Gounder et al is part of what they have in mind. It puts the mission of treating and curing people in the background by turning the vaccines, for example, into an ideological, politicized battlefield.
For many doctors and other experts, I think they just trust and support the official narrative without putting any thought into it, and are more than happy to pass along any potential evidence that their side is "right" instead of critically evaluating the data. It's human nature to accept as true anything that supports your prior beliefs and biases - you have to challenge yourself to question evidence that you agree with.
Thank you. I think a really key point is this one:
"In addition, since the Covid vaccination doesn’t prevent you from getting Covid, you could get vaccinated and still have risk of myocarditis after Covid."
I wonder about this a lot. Is there ANY study that can quantify whether and to what extent "covid after vaccination" leads to less myocarditis than covid after prior infection or, for arguments sake, covid before any exposure (even though ~no one left in this category, but of historical importance.) Seems like a critical data point for all the people who have a knee jerk reaction to this topic by saying "but covid myocarditis is worse."
There was at least one study that showed somewhat lower rates of post-Covid myocarditis in vaccinated people, but that wasn't the main focus of the study, so there is limited data analysis for that finding. Also, that study is also limited in that it only considered Covid infections with a positive Covid-19 test reported to the UK's Covid surveillance system. https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.059970