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People on social media are claiming that about 1 in 40 children are getting myocarditis. These claims seem to come from small individual studies. This ignores official evidence that the rate is much lower.

is about “myocardial injury” in Swiss adults after vaccination—not myocarditis in children. However, the study does not give any evidence to substantiate its claim that the vaccine caused the cases it detected. Nor did it report any analysis which would demonstrate whether the results it found were significant. It is written in French, and we have relied on automatic translating.

The paper showed a 2.8% rate of myocardial injury that it attributed to vaccination because, in its words, “no other cause than the vaccine was implicated”. This percentage would equate to a rate of 28,000 per million.did look at children. It analysed data on 301 13-18 year-olds, two thirds of them male, after their second mRNA Covid vaccine dose.

The study did not include a control group, so it can’t tell us whether the children who had the vaccine were more likely to have these conditions than their peers.The study also can’t tell us that the vaccine caused these cases, all of which were “mild and transient”.Is more reliable data available?that the risk of myocarditis for children aged 12-15 following vaccination is about 3-17 cases per million first doses and 12-34 cases per million second doses.

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