UK cardiologist misleads on Covid-19 vaccine safety
Marisha Goldhamer,
AFP Canada Published on 14 October 2022 at 15:43
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A cardiologist from the United Kingdom says Covid-19 vaccines should be suspended because they pose a greater threat than the virus itself. This is false; experts say his research misleads on the risks of vaccination by cherry-picking evidence and relying on flawed studies, and public health authorities agree the benefits of the shots outweigh the risks.
Peter Liu, chief scientific officer and vice president of research at the Ottawa Heart Institute,
previously told AFP that it is important to consider the risk of myocarditis following a Covid-19 infection.
"If you compare to Covid-related cardiac complications, the vaccine-induced complications are way fewer," he said.
This was confirmed by an
analysisof 43 million people over the age of 13 who were vaccinated in the UK.
"We found that across this large dataset, the entire Covid-19-vaccinated population of England during an important 12-month period of the pandemic when the Covid-19 vaccines first became available, the risk of myocarditis following Covid-19 vaccination was quite small compared to the risk of myocarditis after Covid-19 infection," the study's lead author,
Martina Patone, told the
American Heart Association.
A cardiologist from the United Kingdom says Covid-19 vaccines should be suspended because they pose a greater threat than the virus itself. This is false; experts say his research misleads on the risks of vaccination by cherry-picking evidence and relying on flawed studies, and public health...
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