By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

Many of you have heard the this false claim: “SARS-CoV-2 infection causes more myocarditis than COVID-19 vaccination.” It is false because hospitalized COVID-19 patients trigger ICD-10 codes based on troponin testing that allows codified data to be analyzed and report as myocarditis. These cases are not clinically adjudicated and confirmed with exam, ECG, echocardiography, or cardiac MRI. Autopsy studies of fatal COVID-19 infection have not found myocarditis or evidence of the virus damaging the heart.

Conversely, there are hundreds of peer-reviewed manuscripts describing fatal and non-fatal myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination including cases confirmed by autopsy as published by Hulscher and colleagues. An analysis by Rose et al has demonstrated that vaccine myocarditis has a 2.9% case fatality rate.

It is curious that through the pandemic the Myocarditis Research Foundation started to advertise on social media. The site never mentioned vaccines as a cause or concern. Now the Foundation has launched a campaign with The Helix Research Network to recruit patients with myocarditis after infection or vaccination. I noticed immediately bias in their design to propagate the myocarditis false narrative:

Using ICD-10 codes instead of clinically confirmed cases

Unequal recruiting windows after exposure: 14 days after vaccination versus 8 weeks after infection

No mention of clinical confirmation of myocarditis or independent adjudication

Study is testing genetic predisposition and not measuring mRNA or Spike protein in the body

The Myocarditis Research Foundation and this study are additional evidence of bias working to create the false illusion of vaccine safety while attempting to explain away the increase in myocarditis, heart failure, and cardiac arrest on SARS-CoV-2 infection. Investigation of funding sources to the Foundation for this study are warranted.

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Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

President, McCullough Foundation

www.mcculloughfnd.org

Hulscher N, Hodkinson R, Makis W, McCullough PA. Autopsy findings in cases of fatal COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis. ESC Heart Fail. 2024 Jan 14. doi: 10.1002/ehf2.14680. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38221509.

Rose J, Hulscher N, McCullough PA. Determinants of COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis. Ther Adv Drug Saf. 2024 Jan 27;15:20420986241226566. doi: 10.1177/20420986241226566. PMID: 38293564; PMCID: PMC10823859.