I just watched part of a recent Megyn Kelly podcast interview with Dr. Drew Pinsky, a cardiologist with forty years of experience. Basically Dr. Pinsky was aghast that a recently published article in Circulation(a premier worldwide cardiology journal) has not received more attention. The article had to do with Covid-vaccine myocarditis, and the long term consequences of such.
The study basically followed 39 people up to 10 months after COVID-vaccine-induced myocarditis. Of these 56% had persistent features of myocarditis and 2/3 had abnormal findings overall.
Dr. Pinsky’s take home:
Most people who get myocarditis from the COVID vaccine have long-term changes to their hearts.
I agree with his frustration that this article in Circulation did not get more press, but what is missing is the amount of cardiac tissue that is involved by this vaccine induced myocarditis. If a large amount of heart tissue is affected by any type of myocarditis, then I would agree that it portends a very poor long term prognosis. However, there is no info on the degree of involvement. At this point I would have to assume that the more heart tissue is involved, the poorer the prognosis, and vice-versa. But in reality, at this point we do not know the answer to that question. If the amount of myocardium involved is not a crucial piece of this puzzle, then I would have to agree with the extremely pessimistic outlook of Dr. Pinsky.
Personally, this myocarditis-long term outlook segues into the present status of Damar Hamlin who was used on the Bills’ special teams unit only for kick returns in the fourth game of this season. Very hard for someone who does not live in Buffalo to know what Damar Hamlin’s playing status is from week to week. Did Damar Hamlin have myocarditis? Furthermore, since the NFL mandated that the players receive the Covid vaccine, is the league legally responsible for what happens to a player who gets myocarditis from the vaccine?
On that same Megyn Kelly podcast the issue of the legal responsibility of the future possible deleterious effects of the Covid vaccine as suggested by this Circulation article, and the colleges that mandated those vaccines to young students who had a minuscule chance of dying from Covid. Is it possible that what is now a mere drizzle of an article in Circulation could morph into a huge coming thunderstorm?
11/25/23