Tim Newton Today - Controversial Thai vaccine study, PM Prayut one week to go?

[onthedarkside]

Reuters has done a fact-check report on the various social media reports circulating about the Thai study on youngster reactions to the Pfizer COVID vaccine, finding them inaccurate and misleading, as follows:

 

Fact Check - Study of Thai teenagers did not find one third experienced heart effects after COVID vaccination

 

"A study of 301 teens in Thailand found mild and temporary heart rhythm changes after a second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine among one in six teenagers, not one-third as social media posts claim. The study also saw possible signs of heart inflammation in just seven of those teens with rhythm changes and confirmed myocarditis in only one of the seven.

 

Social media users are circulating the study of post-vaccination heart effects in Thai teenagers with the claim that a third of participants experienced heart effects, and the suggestion that the results indicate a new danger level for children. These posts are missing context: the study’s authors concluded, “We found the risk of these symptoms to be not as low as reported elsewhere, but in all cases, symptoms were mild with full recovery within 14 days.”

 

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https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-heart-teens-vaccine/fact-check-study-of-thai-teenagers-did-not-find-one-third-experienced-heart-effects-after-covid-vaccination-idUSL1N2ZT2B5

[onthedarkside]

From the actual study itself:

 

Abstract

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202208.0151/v1

 

Full text PDF

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202208.0151/v1/download

 

Cardiovascular Effects of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine in Adolescents

 

"our study found one case of myopericarditis, four cases of subclinical myocarditis, and two cases of pericarditis among 301 participants, but each case had mild symptoms."

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"By contrast, the incidence of COVID-19 [disease]-associated cardiac injury or myocarditis is much higher, estimated to be 100 times higher than mRNA [vaccine] COVID-19-related myocarditis."

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"The long-term outcomes of COVID-19 vaccine have not been described, but in our study nearly 100% of patients with symptoms had recovered within 1–2 weeks, concordant with another study."

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"one patient with myopericarditis in our study follow-up with cMRI at 5 months after vaccination showed complete recovery and no scar."

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"Overall, COVID-19 mRNA vaccination has an extremely favorable outcome and should be recommended for adolescents."

 

"5. Conclusions
Clinically suspected myocarditis is temporarily associated with the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in a small proportion of adolescent patients. Chest pain is an alarming symptom in patients receiving BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccination, especially a second dose of BNT162b2. We found the risk of these symptoms to be not as low as reported elsewhere, but in all cases, symptoms were mild with full recovery within 14 days."

 

 

[Rimmer]

Thank you onthedarkside for taking the time to dig into this thoroughly,  in view of this and in order to avoid further confusion I think it best to close the topic completely.

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