Bob Unruh’s July 3 WorldNetDaily article is something of a greatest hits of COVID conspiracy theories:
The evidence has been plain since they were mandated by so many government agencies and private corporations during the reign of the COVID-19 pandemic: those mRNA shots could cause major heart troubles, especially in young men, by triggering myocarditis and pericarditis.
Now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has updated the safety labeling on all mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to warn those who take them to beware.
COVID erupted, according to most measured assessments, from a Wuhan, Chinese, lab experimenting on horrific bat viruses late in 2019. It circled the globe and millions died.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary, has charged that ex-White House coronavirus adviser Anthony Fauci probably played a large role in the creation of the infection, and has called for a commission to investigate its origins.
Unruh did not cite any of those supposedly “measured assessments” blaming a lab leak for the spread of COVID; even the CIA has “low confidence” in that assessment. Unruh then made the mistake of citing the discredited Gateway Pundit:
A report at the Gateway Pundit said the development follows “months of mounting pressure over transparency and accountability regarding the true risks of these experimental injections.”
It said, “The update stems from new studies and data showing persistent cardiac abnormalities months after vaccination—especially among males aged 12 to 24.”
Dr. Vinay Prasad of the Center for Biologics Evaluation & Research detailed “how FDA data reveals a myocarditis rate of 27 per million in young men—a figure that experts say is significantly underreported due to passive surveillance methods and political suppression of adverse event reports,” the report said.
Neither Prasad nor the Gateway Pundit provided evidence to back up that claim. Meanwhile, in the real world, vaccine-caused myocarditis remains a rare side effect, myocarditis caused by COVID itself is a much greater risk, and the warning distracts from needed research to determine who may be more prone to myocarditis so that the risk can be mitigated.