Science News: The largest global vaccine safety study to date found links between Covid vaccines and small increases in neurological, blood, and heart-related conditions. Guillain-Barre syndrome, myocarditis, and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis were among the conditions identified. Learn more about the study's findings and their implications.
They’re talking about myocarditis, not pericarditis. I don’t know how bad the latter is, but I’ve heard that the former is a health emergency. It can apparently cause arrhythmia, tachycardia or even cardiac arrest in worst cases.
Having said that, the news headline does sound a bit alarmist. Nobody ever claimed that vaccines are absolutely safe. It’s always a tradeoff between the risks associated with the vaccines vs risks associated with the diseases it’s trying to prevent. Side effects like myocarditis are handled on a case by case basis.
I took the vaccines and never contracted covid-19. I didn’t suffer any side effects either (apart from the expected fever) - likely the same for the huge majority of vaccine takers. Had I known about these risks then, I would have still opted for the vaccine. The effects of long-covid are that horrifying. Unfortunately, articles like these are giving ammunition to antivaxxers.
It’s also worth noting that there’s a higher chance of getting myocarditis from covid than from its vaccine. In fact, we lost a friend to myocarditis and septicemia caused by covid. His blood had shown signs of a bacteria that’s normally found in the lungs. We later learned that this was due to the severe lung tissue damage caused by covid.
Pre-covid, I got sick following open heart surgery and ended up with a case of pericarditis.
It felt like I was being stabbed right in the goddamned heart.
Doc explained it can happen as a result of any infection and it would get better on its own. Had me taking ibuprofen for it.
So you’re saying simulating an infection via vaccine can also cause it? (shocked pikachu)
They’re talking about myocarditis, not pericarditis. I don’t know how bad the latter is, but I’ve heard that the former is a health emergency. It can apparently cause arrhythmia, tachycardia or even cardiac arrest in worst cases.
Having said that, the news headline does sound a bit alarmist. Nobody ever claimed that vaccines are absolutely safe. It’s always a tradeoff between the risks associated with the vaccines vs risks associated with the diseases it’s trying to prevent. Side effects like myocarditis are handled on a case by case basis.
I took the vaccines and never contracted covid-19. I didn’t suffer any side effects either (apart from the expected fever) - likely the same for the huge majority of vaccine takers. Had I known about these risks then, I would have still opted for the vaccine. The effects of long-covid are that horrifying. Unfortunately, articles like these are giving ammunition to antivaxxers.
It’s also worth noting that there’s a higher chance of getting myocarditis from covid than from its vaccine. In fact, we lost a friend to myocarditis and septicemia caused by covid. His blood had shown signs of a bacteria that’s normally found in the lungs. We later learned that this was due to the severe lung tissue damage caused by covid.
Same here and as a patient with a pre-existing heart condition, if there was a significant risk from the vaccine, well, I’d already be dead. :)