Maynard: Myocarditis is most often caused by a virus, and SARS-CoV-2 is no exception: virtually every study that has been carried out on the subject agrees that catching COVID is much more likely to cause inflammation than getting vaccinated. Dr Grace Lee, Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine and Associate Chief Medical Officer for Practice Innovation at Stanford, agrees. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, she pointed out that “[in] the population-based cohort in the study conducted by Barda and colleagues, the risk ratios for myocarditis were 3.24 […] after vaccination and 18.28 […] after SARS-CoV-2 infection.”

Maynard: That makes myocarditis after COVID-19 nearly six times more likely than after vaccination – or, to put it another way, if you’re scared of myocarditis, you should be more worried about COVID-19 than the vaccine against it.

UncleJesse: Just say "Hold the Myo" when you order the vaccine.

Maynard: Another thing to bear in mind is that, so far, vaccine-induced myocarditis mostly seems to be short-term and mild – “unsettling, but rarely life-threatening,” de Lemos said to the NYT. However, that isn’t necessarily the case after a COVID-19 infection – and if you want one takeaway about the link between vaccines and myocarditis, it should probably be this, explained by Dr Puranik: "The really important issue here is that if you developed myocarditis after a vaccine – were you to have seen this protein from COVID itself, it could have killed you.”

Maynard: Not sure how I missed this but this is gold!!! https://twitter.com/SpringSpringB/status/1481638495172972552