AggieHusker said:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.23.21260998v1
This is not peer reviewed either, so take that for what it's worth.
Quote:
Conclusions Myocarditis (or pericarditis or myopericarditis) from primary COVID19 infection occurred at a rate as high as 450 per million in young males. Young males infected with the virus are up 6 times more likely to develop myocarditis as those who have received the vaccine.
I just want to point out that the sample set used to draw all the conclusions in that paper was 276. The CDC slides only reported on about 1300 data points.
And from that they extrapolated the rate of CAEs into the larger population.
I'm not saying these observations are not cause for concern and further study, but the sample sets are VERY small. And it's know that this age group cohort is much less likely to get vaccinated - and the ones who are getting the vaccine are more likely to have (or think they have) pre-exiting conditions that make them "high-risk".
So, in addition to being very small, the data set is not randomized or controlled and is skewed to a specific cohort.