Claim: Myocarditis rates are 1 in a hundred thousand and Coronavirus is DANGEROUS....!

Part three of my refutation of the Sunday Times article.

PART THREE

This has been added to my refutation of the Sunday Times article

From the Sunday Times article:

Myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle, is a “very rare side effect” of the mRNA-based vaccine made by Pfizer and Moderna. Cases usually resolved after a few days with treatment and rest. According to a TGA vaccine safety report in May, it happened in about one to two in every 100,000 people who received the Pfizer jab, and two to three of those who received Moderna. “So far, reports after booster doses are very rare, with myocarditis reported in less than one in every 100,000 people after they receive a booster dose,” it said.

Points:

1. Myocarditis is not an insignificant or mild side effect - of 780 patients who were diagnosed with myocarditis in a population based study in Taiwan, a quarter died within ten years.

2. Mr Flint is obviously not sharp enough to actually read the TGA vaccine safety report for himself. The risk of myocarditis is much higher for boys aged 13-17 - 13 cases in 100,000 - that’s over 1 in 10,000 - and young men in their 20s; 20 cases in 100,000 - that’s 1 in 5000 young men who take the vaccine. The risk is actually around 15 cases per 100,000 for the second dose.

   The TGA is actually not up to date anyhow, rates are possibly much higher among among 16-40 age group according to this study from Israel, 29% according to this study from Thailand

3. Covid has simply not been fatal to anyone younger than 20 in Australia according to this government page where the graph seems to have gone missing, as has the age and sex data from this page as well (it used to be shown earlier this year but even seems to have disappeared from the wayback machine). The data for children’s deaths from Covid has simply disappeared from the government sites.

   I wonder why?

   This site, not a government page, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1245896/australia-number-of-coronavirus-deaths-by-age-group-and-gender/ was the only place I could find the number of children who had died of Covid before December 9, 2021.

   Only 1 child died.

I finally found a little more information here - the death was an adolescent.

4. The number of people under 40 who have died of the virus is paltry anyway.

   

   

5. The median age of death from Coronavirus is 84.3. The median age at death for Australians is 81.7 years. That means you’re more likely to die of anything else other than Coronavirus.

   

6. Most of the people who died from Covid had pre-existing very serious chronic health conditions, mostly to do with heart and circulation:

So Mr Flint you recommend giving myocarditis to 13 boys in 100,000 and 20 young men in 100,000 to save them from a virus that is extremely unlikely to kill any of them. Good man. You’re recommending giving myocarditis to 1-2 people in 100,000 in order to save them from a virus whose median death age is higher than the median age at death of the Australian population.

Such great investigative journalism.

& BTW

* TGA report into the safety of ivermectin 2011:

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IVERMECTIN IS SAFE AND EFFECTIVE!