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Vaccinated People Have Fewer Cardiac Events after COVID-19

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In a study including data from almost two million individuals, COVID-19 vaccination seemed to have a protective effect against heart attacks, strokes, and cardiovascular problems linked to infection with SARS-CoV-2

...begins this recent article insideprecisionmedicine.com...

also citing other studies that have found increased risk of cardiovascular complications following a COVID infection. The article doesn't give a link to the current study, but here it is (paywalled) jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j...

The question is, does having the vaccine reduce your risk of heart complications after Covid? Could one equally well conclude that people predisposed to heart problems are less likely to get vaccinated? The lead author says “While we cannot attribute causality, it is supportive evidence that vaccination may have beneficial effects on a variety of post-COVID-19 complications.

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MD (Dr Phil Hammond) has an interesting article on the effects of mRNA vaccines on cardiac problems in the current edition of Private Eye and the summary is that vaccinated people suffer fewer or less grave cardiac effects than unvaccinated people who suffer from Covid. One has to remember that Covid can have severe myocarditis effects by itself and vaccination seems to reduce this effect.

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