Claim: mRNA vaccines cause sudden death

A new peer reviewed paper establishes the link between mRNA vaccines, myocarditis and sudden death

35 cases of sudden death within 20 days of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination were autopsied by scientists from the University of Heidelberg. Of these, 10 were excluded because autopsies revealed other causes of death. Of the remaining 25, five were found to be caused by myocarditis, probably caused by the mRNA vaccines. These five all died within a week of receiving the shots.

The article is in Springer and was published 27 November 2022; the images and quotations below are from the study. It is peer-reviewed and issued under Creative Commons.

Here is the citation:

Schwab, C., Domke, L.M., Hartmann, L. et al. Autopsy-based histopathological characterization of myocarditis after anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination. Clin Res Cardiol (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-022-02129-5

Two of the five deaths were male aged 46 and 55, and three were female, aged 50, 62 and 75. The 55 year old male had just taken the second dose, the others had just taken the first dose.

They say that a causal link between vaccination and death from myocarditis is supported by the following facts:

(A) a close temporal relation to vaccination; all cases were found dead within one week after vaccination,

(B) absence of any other significant pre-existing heart disease, especially ischaemic heart disease or cardiomyopathy,

(C) negative testing for potential myocarditis-causing infectious agents,

(D) presence of a peculiar CD4 predominant T-cell infiltrate, suggesting an immune mediated mechanism. The latter criterion is supported by demonstration of a phenotypically identical T-cell infiltrate at the deltoidal injection site in one of the cases.

These were the slides taken from intraventricular wall of the heart of one of the patients, showing the cell damage:

A Lymphocytic aggregates in the interventricular septum of case 1 with associated myocardiocyte destruction. B The infiltrate is predominantly composed of CD3-positive T-lymphocytes and C CD68-positive macrophages. D In lower magnification two foci of CD4-positive lymphocytes are evident (D) (Creative Commons Schwab, Domke, and Hartmann https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-022-02129-5)

A similar pattern of damage was visible at the jab site:

A The jab site in the deltoid muscle reveals focal inflammation. The composition is similar to the phenotype of the myocardial infiltrates showing predominantly, B CD3 and C CD4-coexpressing lymphocytes and D interspersed CD68-positive macrophages (Creative Commons Schwab, Domke, and Hartmann https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-022-02129-5)

In the article they recommend monitoring and treatment options that might prevent such deaths.

The article was received 22 July 2022, accepted 17 November 2022, and published 27 November 2022. Considering that the vaccination campaign began in Germany in December 2020, it is interesting that it took so long to write and publish this autopsy study. I suppose the authors waited to publish these results until there were other studies they could cite, until the politics of the whole issue had calmed down a little.

It’s a shame these results weren’t able to be published closer to the time when the autopsies must have been done. How many lives were lost because such heretical conclusions weren’t allowed in the peer-reviewed literature?

Addendum 18 December 2022

John Campbell did an excellent video on this study.