There is a small risk of developing myocarditis after being vaccinated, but the risk of dying of COVID in the US, for instance, was of 1.1% after being diagnosed.
I’m really sorry you are going through this. People didn’t have time to better test the vaccines to ensure their safety before having to use them to prevent massive loss of life due to the disease.
Perhaps we’ll find ways to alleviate the issues the vaccines caused, or even fix them, as the number of cases is significant and, with that, they can be better studied and the mechanisms better understood.
Not to mention the fact that the risk of developing a serious heart condition after getting Covid is massively higher than for getting the vaccine—including myocarditis. Though I would like to know what that comparison looks like if were only considering young, healthy people. That data still seems difficult to come across. But, I don't think there's any reason at this point to think that the relative risk of vaccine induced myocarditis vs covid induced myocarditis is significantly different in that demographic than any other.
Having done that comparison, really the only group where the vaccine wasn't protective against myocarditis (let alone everything else) was young men. And even then, it was more "Ehhh...?"
The myocarditis caused was also, generally speaking, milder than that caused by infection.
I don’t think “misinformation” is appropriate. Given the novel nature and chaos with COVID, the limitations with best effort, rushed information, etc there were a lot of different numbers thrown around for various cohorts, etc.
Figures like 1.1% were definitely cited, especially in the early days where the initial iteration of the virus devastated congregate living and other settings. It also took about 6 months for best practices for acute management of hospitalized patients were developed. Many people died as a result who would not have after 2021.
I got the data from https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid which, recently, uses WHO data. In the case of the US, this is probably CDC’s. I probably should have noted that, initially, when COVID tests were scarce or non-existing because at that time a diagnosis implied symptoms. Still, the numbers are not as off as GP claimed. One number that still seems to hold is a 50% fatality rate for patients admitted to ICU (I just checked with a doctor friend)
I’m really sorry you are going through this. People didn’t have time to better test the vaccines to ensure their safety before having to use them to prevent massive loss of life due to the disease.
Perhaps we’ll find ways to alleviate the issues the vaccines caused, or even fix them, as the number of cases is significant and, with that, they can be better studied and the mechanisms better understood.