Vaccine vs COVID Myocarditis

Comments debate the comparative risks of myocarditis from COVID-19 vaccines versus from COVID-19 infection itself, frequently citing data showing higher risks from the infection especially in young people.

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edmcnulty101 Jan 20, 2022 View on HN

The vaccine carries risk of cardiovascular issues but then you increase that risk as well when you get covid.How is a fact being downvoted.

broast Jan 9, 2024 View on HN

The risk of myocarditis may be higher for an unvaccinated person than a vaccinated person which makes the "downplaying" much more nuanced, doesn't it?

strenholme Aug 27, 2021 View on HN

What the linked study [1] is saying is that unvaccinated people who get COVID-19 are even more likely to get Myocarditis than vaccinated people; it counters the allegation that people should not get vaccinated because of the risk of Myocarditis.Even if the vaccine increased the risk (it doesn’t), the risk of COVID-19 is orders of magnitude higher than the risk of the Myocarditis heart condition.There have been, from the total of 12,910,312 18-24 year-old people vaccinated, [2] about

DiogenesKynikos Oct 12, 2021 View on HN

Yes, even for young people. Even when you look at the side-effects of the vaccine, they tend to be more common among people who get the virus. For example, myocarditis is several times more common among young people who get CoVID-19 than among young people who get vaccinated.[1] Given that everyone is eventually going to get infected or vaccinated, getting vaccinated probably significantly decreases the risk of myocarditis among young people.1. <a href="https://www.nature.com

wizzwizz4 Sep 1, 2025 View on HN

I wouldn't say "a lot of people". See https://nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/27746/interactive...: only a few conditions, such as Myocarditis, are linked to the mRNA vaccines. I'd be way better off taking even the dodgiest vaccine (Oxford–AstraZeneca, which is no longer in production)

andy_ppp Feb 6, 2021 View on HN

Which is higher, the risk of the vaccine or the risk of COVID (and not just for you, for people you meet and possibly care about)?

feurio Apr 30, 2022 View on HN

Given that the risk of myocarditis after covid 19 infection is six times worse than after vaccination [1] this is just a cost of doing business.(where "cost of doing business" is defined as "not dying from a disease which is easily preventable in the vast majority of cases")[1] - https://www

oezi Nov 14, 2022 View on HN

The risk from myocarditis from getting Covid-19 is higher than getting it from the vaccine. The decision to vaccinate even young people made sense during the height of the pandemic and it doesn't make so much sense now anymore.

foota Sep 30, 2021 View on HN

Your risks are much higher from covid than from the vaccine.

micromacrofoot Nov 5, 2021 View on HN

The abstract from your linked paper seems to indicate the risk is minimal.>According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, myocarditis/pericarditis rates are ≈12.6 cases per million doses of second-dose mRNA vaccine among individuals 12 to 39 years of ageThat's a 0.0013% chance of getting something that "almost all" patients had resolution of with or without treatment:>Almost all patients had resolution of symptoms and signs and improvement in d