Re:SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and Myocarditis in a Nordic Cohort...
by _vertigo on Friday April 22, 2022 @11:15PM
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9 to 28 times? I figured “excess events per 100,000” means if the control rate is e.g. 200 events per 100,000 then the observed rate after vaccination was 209 to 228.
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Re:SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and Myocarditis in a Nordic Cohort...
by radford-neal on Friday April 22, 2022 @11:32PM
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They give the excess events for vaccinated individuals compared to those not vaccinated, per 100,000 vaccinations. For males age 16 to 24, the excess per 100,000 vaccinations is 5.55 for Pfizer and 18.39 for Moderna. These numbers might be useful if you were comparing the badness of these events with the goodness of whatever you think is the number of Covid infections prevented per 100,000 vaccinations (which obviously depends on the general prevalence of Covid).
They also give a ratio, which could also be interesting, and which you can't deduce from the excess events without knowing the number of events in the reference group.
Re:SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and Myocarditis in a Nordic Cohort...
by kurupt213 on Friday April 22, 2022 @11:28PM
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that's an increase of 4.5-14% that is huge, especially when you include that the high risk group has virtually no risk from covid infection.
Re:SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and Myocarditis in a Nordic Cohort...
by maxerickson on Friday April 22, 2022 @11:58PM
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In the US, the rate of Covid deaths in 18-29s is something like 10/100,000.
So if that is virtually no risk, so is 20 cases of myocarditis (that aren't all lethal) per 100,000.
(I used 6100 from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-... divided by 53 million to get 10/100,00).
Re:SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and Myocarditis in a Nordic Cohort...
by michaelmrose on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:18AM
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Myocarditis in young people post vaccination rather than being (not all lethal) is virtually never lethal.