Thread by @Daniel_E_Park

New study evaluating vascular and inflammatory diseases after COVID-19 infection and vaccination in nearly 14 million children.
Large persistent increase in major cardiovascular risks following infection. A small transient myocarditis risk following vaccination

Paper:

"COVID-19 infection in children & young people was associated w/ elevated risks... including venous thromboembolism, thrombocytopenia, myocarditis, & pericarditis particularly in the first month... w/ some risks remaining elevated up to 12 months"thelancet.com/journals/lanch…

"By contrast, COVID-19 vaccination was associated with a short-term increased risk of myocarditis or pericarditis, mainly within the first 4 weeks. However, no increased risk was observed beyond that period, and there was no evidence of long-term myocarditis signal"

The paper nicely demonstrates for children what has been known for years in adults - there is a small risk of mild transient myocarditis following vaccination, but a much larger risk of a host of severe outcomes with infection.
cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study…

I continue to see vaccine hesitant influencers harping on the myocarditis risk and ignoring the much larger risks from infection.

Similarly, they stress how "bad" vaccine spike proteins are. But the dose range in mRNA vaccines and fixed dose in the protein novavax vaccine are ~100-1,000 times less than a mild infection.
Like saying 1 minute in the sun is bad, then spending 16 hours unprotected in the sun.

So yes, spike protein is bad. Training your immune system to recognize the virus using a tiny transient dose is good. Letting it infect you and run rampant across your whole body for a multi day infection is much worse. Vaccines help prevent severe illness and long COVID.