Myocarditis After Pfizer & Moderna | BA2 Variant Less Severe | Vaccines & Masking Useless Against Omicron
From vaccine induced myocarditis, to vaccines and masking being useless against omicron, this is the most pertinent public health data as of 3/4/22. Of course, the salient facts have been summarized and sources itemized below. Keep scrolling to catch up on what you missed today.
Most predominant paper on myocarditis in boys has now reached peer-review + has been published
Findings strongly support nuanced approaches to pediatric COVID vaccination. Meaning, weighing the risks of infection VS risks of vaccine-induced myo/pericarditis
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13759
Large retrospective study out of Qatar examining >124k BA2 infections VS >30k BA1 infections revealed that BA.2 has longer infection length and higher viral loads
https://www.medrxiv.org/con.../10.1101/2022.03.02.22271771v1
Autopsy report of a 5 year old Georgia boy who died from a bacterial Burkholderia pseudomallei infection as a result of exposure to a contaminated lavender product coincidentally tested positive for COVID-19 but did not die from it, rather, with it
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2116130
This is New Zealand during their Omicron surge. Just so it’s clear, they have one of the highest vaccination + booster rates with under 100 total actual Covid deaths over the past 2 years in a population of nearly 4.9 million
https://www.nytimes.com/.../new-zealand-covid-omicron.html
No stringent lockdowns, or masking regulations yet Sweden ranks 57th in world death rate. I suppose this is explains radio silence from the media on this
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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