1/ An AP fact checker reached out and inform me that this tweet is false: two cardiologists confirmed that 70% of myocarditis cases are mild or asymptomatic. But the term "mild myocarditis" is misleading to the lay public.
https://twitter.com/akheriaty/status/1460135683561963520
2/ Imagine a physician saying to a patient or parent that 70% of the heart attacks caused by a proposed medical intervention are mild or minimally symptomatic. The patient would still quite rightly be concerned: attaching "mild" to "heart attack" does not allay this concern.
3/ Another way to think about it: if a medication has a mild adverse-effect (e.g., dry mouth or even weight gain), a doctor might continue it if the benefits were significant. But no doctor would continue a medication that was causing myocarditis, even if mild or asymptomatic.
4/ Myocarditis is thus always medically serious, even on the mild end of the spectrum. It's not to be lightly dismissed, as we are seeing today. (Never thought I would see the day when physicians would do this.)
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