<story><title>Myocarditis associated with Covid-19 compared to mRNA vaccines</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ppaattrriicckk</author><text>This probably sounds harsh, but are all vaccine-bashing readers deliberately selectively-illiterate?
In the abstract (academic for &amp;quot;TL;DR&amp;quot;) it literally states that Covid is between 7 and 40 times more likely to cause Myocarditis.&lt;p&gt;And a lot of you write about palpitations, which can also be caused by stress and anxiety. I&amp;#x27;m 30, in good physical shape, and used to have weekly episodes with irregular heartbeats due to severe stress. Now I&amp;#x27;m vaccinated (which is for 99.999% of us obviously completely irrelevant to experiencing this, but a lot of commenters draw that conclusion) and the palpitations are gone. Let&amp;#x27;s not base conclusion on anecdotal evidence, please. For the same reason that my grandpa lived until 85 while smoking since he was 13.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Argonaut998</author><text>&amp;gt;it literally states that Covid is between 7 and 40 times more likely to cause Myocarditis.&lt;p&gt;There is no control group for unvaccinated people in this study. Everyone who got myocarditis from COVID had at least one dose of the vaccine. So the correct statement is &amp;quot;COVID is between 7 and 40 times more likely to cause myocarditis IF you have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Myocarditis associated with Covid-19 compared to mRNA vaccines</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ppaattrriicckk</author><text>This probably sounds harsh, but are all vaccine-bashing readers deliberately selectively-illiterate?
In the abstract (academic for &amp;quot;TL;DR&amp;quot;) it literally states that Covid is between 7 and 40 times more likely to cause Myocarditis.&lt;p&gt;And a lot of you write about palpitations, which can also be caused by stress and anxiety. I&amp;#x27;m 30, in good physical shape, and used to have weekly episodes with irregular heartbeats due to severe stress. Now I&amp;#x27;m vaccinated (which is for 99.999% of us obviously completely irrelevant to experiencing this, but a lot of commenters draw that conclusion) and the palpitations are gone. Let&amp;#x27;s not base conclusion on anecdotal evidence, please. For the same reason that my grandpa lived until 85 while smoking since he was 13.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>&amp;gt; are all vaccine-bashing readers deliberately selectively-illiterate?&lt;p&gt;Yes, that&amp;#x27;s how discourse is done these days: text is a corpus from which you select the statements that support your position and discard the rest.</text></comment>