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June 10, 2025 - Epoch Times
07:19
Pediatric Cardiologist says increase in myocarditis in children related to COVID-19 vaccine
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The reality is there's something really happened.
What people are sensing has happened has happened.
And we have seen a change in myocarditis in children, especially in boys, that is temporarily related to the onset of the introduction of the COVID vaccine.
We had seen a little bit of inflammation of the heart in something that's called multisystem inflammatory syndrome of children that caused almost the whole body to become inflamed.
But specifically after the second dose of the new platform for COVID vaccine, we were seeing an increase in myocarditis in children that we've never seen before with any vaccine product in children.
Well, and this is something that was talked about actually pretty early in the deployment, that there was this issue with myocarditis.
Yes, they actually, with more of the FOIA requests and understanding what was going on beforehand, even in their phase two, phase three trials, is this was a concern.
And they had put that in as a concern.
It would be something, it would be one of the ones they were watching for as a signal.
Can you quantify for me where we stand today?
I mean, you yourself are a cardiologist, a pediatrician.
What are you seeing?
So I think we have seen the peak of the myocarditis in terms of the acute myocarditis because hardly any children are getting any more It's still happening, but very, very little uptake, especially because the parents just don't want it anymore.
COVID's largely gone away.
It has become much more just like a respiratory illness.
And so the fear of their children dying or they're causing someone else to die that's gone away.
So the myocarditis has decreased.
I'm seeing something else that is completely different that is taking up an enormous amount of my time.
And this is an inappropriate Tachycardia or fast heart rate that they'll be sitting on a couch and all of a sudden a kid complains, "Mom, my heart's racing." So that's what I'm seeing more of.
The problem with the myocarditis that we saw, especially in 2021, 2022, is that it could be a silent killer.
And that is that the scar can be there.
A scar forms after myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart.
So you can imagine it's sort of like a charley horse.
If your muscle gets bruised.
If you get a charley horse, what do you want to do?
You want to rest that muscle.
If you go on a long run and your legs are sore the next day, the day after, you're like, oh my gosh, my legs, I just want to rest.
I don't want to do anything.
That is what sort of my The problem is we never allow our heart to rest.
So we are expecting that heart to beat almost every second, every minute, every hour, every day.
It's a heart that needs time to repair.
And the way the heart repairs this is a lot of times what it does is it sends in all these agents that sort of Cry foul and say something's wrong.
And so the body says, okay, what must we do?
We got to come in here.
Something's injured us.
And so what they'll do is sort of make little dams with fiber.
So that causes this little fibrous scars.
And if there's a lot of damage, you'll have big scars.
And if there's a little damage, you'll have little scars.
It's really hard for us on our basic evaluation of children to know if they have silent big scars or silent small scars.
We can usually help them to identify if they have low risk for a heart event.
But this is the big concern, is what people have been seeing is it seems like a lot more athletes, just from what is concerned, is that a lot more elite athletes have died following the vaccine.
And so that is where I hear concern is not only from doctors, can I approve this child to do sports, but also from athletes, can I push myself?
Am I safe to push myself?
And so how common is this exactly?
That's the other question.
This certainly isn't everybody by any means.
No, not at all.
That's one piece.
The second piece is people recover from this.
We're still trying to figure this out because we don't necessarily know how many people might have it silently.
So the absolute numbers are questionable.
I think if you were to look at some cardiac effects that people are still having, we're probably looking at maybe 4% of the population.
So 96% are maybe having no cardiac effects at all.
But this is very specific to age, sex of the person.
So the teenage boys, the young adult males, they were the most likely population to have myocarditis and cardiac issues.
Yeah, this is exactly what I was going to ask.
I mean, 4 out of 100 is not a small number, but is that of all people or people who have had a particular type of COVID product?
No, so when we look at it, it looks like it starts right around puberty.
So as males come into puberty, they have an increase in testosterone.
Testosterone is a pro-inflammatory hormone.
It happened typically in this young adolescence to young adulthood is where we saw the most.
We saw it in women.
We saw it in older people.
But that's where the real spike came.
Tied with the testosterone increase, basically.
Yeah, that's what it seems like.
I also, when I treated patients with COVID, some of the ones, The hardest to treat that seemed to be really affected really significantly by COVID itself were the bodybuilders.
And maybe they were taking some other substances at all to help their bodies get big.
But I think probably that maybe increased testosterone, also that pro-inflammatory You could be getting myridocarditis just from COVID.
Are you suggesting it's dose-dependent, like how much spike is, how?
So there was a beautiful study done by the Nordic countries.
They probably have the best capture of medical data from how they run their health care systems, their electronic medical record.
And so they published this in JAMA Cardiology, and it was the 23 million people.
And they looked at their vaccination status by age, sex, which vaccine they got, how many did they get?
Did they get one of one and one of the other?
So they looked at all these things, and what they found was is that the unvaccinated had the lowest amount of myocarditis.
If you had one vaccine, If you had two Pfizer, you had even more.
If you had one Moderna, it was more.
If you had two Moderna, it was even more.
And if you mixed them, it seemed even higher.
All of these were above what we saw with the unvaccinated.
So that sort of answers the question, which is worse, to be unvaccinated or vaccinated?
For myocarditis, it was worse to be vaccinated.
And the Moderna, which was seemed worse, had,
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