Thread by @han_francis

#Enterovirus #Myocarditis is getting a lot of attention in the media right now so, I'm here to share a general overview of what this is.

According to our professional organization, @ACCinTouch , the definition of myocarditis is any condition that causes inflammation of the heart. There are a big list of causes, and the most common ones in adults are different from the most common ones in kids.

Enterovirus is a specific category of virus, and it is one of the infections (overall most common cause in all ages) which is capable of causing heart inflammation.

Baby viral myocarditis is something that can get extremely dangerous very quickly, and can put babies lives in danger. How do you know somebody has this? Look for pallor, sweating, altered activity level, and repeated vomiting with eating in babies. fn.bmj.com/content/89/5/F…

The overall amount of infants who get enterovirus myocarditis is small, but the amount of babies who die or get very sick is a large fraction of that small group unfortunately. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20444813/

You might see cold symptoms too (pure cold symptoms in babies don't come along with the other symptoms).

Once the diagnosis is established by seeing the patient, EKG, echocardiogram, and sometimes cardiac MRI, you'll get close interactions with a cardiologist to help fix things.

Baby viral myocarditis has been occuring for a long long time, well before antivaxxers discovered this. We've sometimes even had to struggle to save babies in the Intensive Care Unit because they were so ill (Citation: Moss and Adams Heart Disease in Infants and Children).

Mechanism of infant viral myocarditis: thought to be a mixture of incomplete clearance of virus and partially the immune response pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36827455/#&gid… .

Connection with COVID vaccines? First off, COVID vaccine associated immunodeficiency is an invalid condition, from a willful misinterpretation of an old COVID vaccine project in Australia. covid19infovaccines.com/en-posts/can-c…

It is impossible to give your newborn infant a fictional condition; HIV Proteins were used as a part of the vaccine design process but no actual HIV virus was there. The project was closed down anyway due to false positive HIV tests out of an abundance of caution.

Second, you don't need anything to give an infant an immunodeficiency, they already are relatively immunodeficient when born, in unique ways, needing their vaccines to be given at certain intervals and ages to actually work. chop.edu/centers-progra…

Mums can share their immunity from antibodies (passive immunity) with kids, but the baby will gradually break down these antibodies and it is generally the case that the baby's own immunity will catch up with exposure to vaccinations and the world.

Third, the cluster of myocarditis in England was in infants under 28 days old, which is an age group where COVID vaccines are not authorized in any country. gov.wales/written-statem…

Babies cannot get vaccine myocarditis if they didn't get vaccinated in the first place.

The ultimate take home here is to allow the public to recognize what the symptoms of a really sick infant might be, and get the infant to medical assistance.

On the vaccine spike thing: No, COVID spike is not efficiently produced in a fetus upon vaccination of a mum. Antibodies do get to the fetus, which helps them get some immunity. The vaccine itself is not efficiently transferred to the fetus.

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