a review mRNA from death certificates of previously healthy Oregon residents ages 16 to 30 who died of cardiac or unknown causes from June 2021 to December 2022 COVID-19 Vaccination and Cardiac Sudden No association was found with death.
Regarding this research, yesterday Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Oregon Health Authority researchers examined 1,292 death certificates and immunization data to obtain records of COVID-19 mRNA vaccination within 100 days of death. . A total of 925 men (72%) and 367 women (28%) between the ages of 16 and 30 died during the study period.
On April 19, 2021, healthy Oregonians age 16 and older became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine.
“COVID-19 vaccination is associated with myocarditis in adolescents and young adults, raising concerns about the potential for vaccine-related cardiac mortality in this age group,” the researchers wrote. “In April 2021, cases of myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination were reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, particularly among young male vaccine recipients.”
There is no certificate that lists vaccination as the cause of death.
Of the 1,292 confirmed deaths, 30 certificates listed COVID-19 as the cause of death. For the other 101 patients, cardiac causes of death could not be ruled out. Of these, immunization data was available for 88 people, three of whom had received an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine within 100 days of death.
Of the 40 deaths among mRNA COVID-19 vaccine recipients, three occurred within 100 days of vaccination. Two of the deaths were attributed to chronic illness, and the cause of death was not listed for one. There is no certificate that lists vaccination as the cause of death.
A total of 17 deaths (2%) among men were attributed to the new coronavirus infection. Death certificates listed noncardiac causes or other conditions for 842 people (91%). In the remaining 66 men (7%), a cardiac cause of death could not be excluded. Of these 66 individuals, vaccination records are available for 58 (88%) and for 24 (41%) he received at least one dose of his mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. What was received was recorded.
Of the 24 vaccinated men, 2 (8%) died within 100 days of vaccination. The cause of the first death was determined to be natural causes 21 days after vaccination. The immediate cause of death was congestive heart failure due to high blood pressure. Other significant conditions were morbid obesity, type 2 diabetes, and obstructive sleep apnea.
The second death had been vaccinated 45 days before death and was classified as “natural causes of death unknown.” Toxicology results were negative for alcohol, cannabinoids, methamphetamine, and opiates, and positive for aripiprazole, ritalinic acid, and trazodone. Follow-up doctors were unable to confirm or rule out vaccine-related adverse events as the cause.
These data do not support an association between mRNA COVID-19 vaccination and sudden cardiac death in previously healthy young people.
Of the 367 female deaths, 13 (4%) were due to COVID-19, and 319 (87%) cited non-cardiac causes. Of the remaining 35 female deaths (10%), vaccination records are available for 30 (86%), of whom 16 (53%) received at least one mRNA COVID-19 vaccination. was receiving.
Only one of these deaths occurred within 100 days of vaccination, or within four days of vaccination. The cause of death was ruled to be natural, and the direct cause of death is unknown, with chronic respiratory failure caused by hypoxia caused by mitral stenosis.
Risks after COVID-19 infection are greater than after vaccination
“These data do not support an association between mRNA COVID-19 vaccination and sudden cardiac death in previously healthy young people,” the study authors wrote. “COVID-19 vaccination is recommended for everyone six months of age and older to prevent COVID-19 infection and complications, including death.”
“Myocarditis remains a rare cause of death in this age group, although the proportion was higher during the pandemic year of 2021,” the researchers wrote. “A larger sample size would be needed to detect small differences in mortality due to myocarditis.”
The authors pointed out that:Electronic health records from 40 U.S. health systems from January 2021 to January 2022 show that in people 5 years and older, the risk of cardiac complications after COVID-19 infection is higher than mRNA COVID-19 infection. It was revealed that the increase was significantly higher than that after vaccination.
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics, the background death rate from heart disease for Oregonians ages 15 to 34 was 2.9 and 4.1 per 100,000 in 2019 and 2021, respectively. there were. Researchers say that in the first two years after COVID-19 vaccines were available in the United States, vaccinations prevented about 18.5 million hospitalizations and 3.2 million deaths.