Medical Researchers Willfully Blind to Future Risk of Cardiac Arrest after COVID-19 Vaccine Induced Myopericarditis
Serious Adolescent Cases with no Follow-Up Disclosed
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
Before COVID-19 myocarditis was rare and always alerted cardiologists to future risks of two outcomes: 1) heart failure, 2) arrythmias (ventricular tachycardia/fibrillation) leading to cardiopulmonary arrest. Buchan and colleagues reported 77 Canadian teenagers age 12-17 who needlessly suffered myopericarditis after the Pfizer mRNA vaccine. Sixty six percent occurred after dose #2 and only 7% had prior COVID-19, so the vaccine was to blame in the vast majority of cases. Hospitalization occurred in 44% and their were no deaths. These cases occurred in 2020-2021 and there is no mention of follow-up or risk of future cardiac arrest.
The most common question I receive from concerned and regretful parents is “will my child be OK after getting through myopericarditis?” Buchan and colleagues have the answer in their data and Canadians deserve to know how those 77 kids are doing now two years later.
Ethical research should be responsive to public needs in the setting of a pandemic crisis. The COVID-19 vaccines have caused record injuries, disabilities, and death. Let’s hope medical researchers holding data on vaccine injuries publish longer term outcomes soon so physicians can accurately prognosticate for this now common form of cardiac injury.
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The Willfully Blind are paired with the Willfully Ignorant. Every day I am surrounded by a good majority of intelligent, successful people who DO NOT want to have these conversations as you and others generously share here. Their Doctors are typically intelligent, well cultured and educated individuals who are persuasive and influential. This is the other end of the challenge. I am lost for a solution that needs to be implemented in the very near term. It appears this train is stopping for no one. Haste makes waste.
Thank you, Dr. McCullough. They almost certainly are not looking at long term follow up because they don't want to know how bad it's going to be.