"Heart Attacks" from COVID-19 Vaccination

Reports Pour into Medical Literature

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

As a cardiologist, it seems as if the COVID-19 vaccine campaign has generated a tidal wave of new patients with a variety of problems. Fortunately, many issues we are able to handle in the office. Adverse events warranting hospitalization including “heart attacks” is another matter.

Paknahad and colleagues summarized 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts describing an array of serious heart complications. Their findings on myopericarditis and blood clots have been covered previous issues of Courageous Discourse, but importantly, the authors state they believe the myocarditis rate is 1.6% for each injection. I disagree with the characterization that this statistic is “low,” since the cases they describe are the “tip of the iceberg” resulting in hospitalization or death whereas ambulatory patients must drive the total incidence much higher than 1.6%.