NEW: Recovery from Smallpox vaccine-induced myocarditis. Perhaps these data will reveal useful lessons for COVID vaccine-induced myocarditis

This paper was published this year (2023) but the research described in it was begun 20 years ago, when the DOD rolled out its smallpox vaccine program for military servicemembers. In my view, that was a publicity stunt to increase the fear of Iraq’s biological weapons, as we went to war against Iraq for the second time with the second Bush presidency. Many of these biological agents the US had sold to Iraq with the acquiescence of the Department of Commerce and perhaps the CDC as well.

Smallpox has an incubation period of weeks, so in most situations it would be a bad weapon to use against an army.

A civilian vaccine program for first responders rolled out at the same time, but there were so many cases of heart attacks and heart failure that the civilian program imploded quickly, with only about 40,000 people being vaccinated.

Active duty members of the military did not have the luxury to say no, and so they were vaccinated for a disease that has been wiped out, and a number of them developed myocarditis. CDC now says 1 in 175 got frank myocarditis from the ACAM2000 vaccine, which was the primary vaccine used. 1 in 30 had some elevation of cardiac enzymes. These numbers are based on earlier research from the same authors as the paper I describe today.

The military physician scientists who evaluated soldiers for myo and pericarditis have published previous papers on affected soldiers over a number of years. This paper is the latest, published May 8, 2023.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283988

What did they find? 25% of myocarditis cases (mainly young men) had not recovered by one year. Half of those (12.7%) of the survivors never fully recovered.

However, Alex Berenson today reports on Italian cases in male teens, in which supposed full recoveries were followed by relapses. It would be proper for the US government to tell us what it knows about its magic potion COVID vaccines. CDC knows what happened to the recipients. CDC has the names, numbers and death certificates.

Results

Out of over 5000 adverse event reports, 348 MP cases who survived the acute illness, including 276 myocarditis (99.6% probable/confirmed) and 72 pericarditis (29.2% probable/confirmed), were adjudicated for inclusion in the long-term follow-up. Demographics included a median age of 24 years (IQR 21,30) and male predominance (96%). Compared to background military population, the myocarditis and pericarditis cohort had a higher percentage of white males by 8.2% (95% CI: 5.6, 10.0) and age <40 years by 4.2% (95% CI: 1.7,5.8). Long-term follow-up documented full recovery in 267/306 (87.3%) with 74.9% recovered in less than a year (median ~3 months). Among patients with myocarditis, the percentage who had a delayed time to recovery at time of last follow-up was 12.8% (95% CI: 2.1,24.7) higher in those with an acute left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) of 50% and 13.5% (95% CI: 2.4,25.7) higher in those with hypokinesis. Patient complications included 6 ventricular arrhythmias (2 received implanted defibrillators) and 14 with atrial arrhythmias (2 received radiofrequency ablation). Three of 6 patients (50%) diagnosed with cardiomyopathy had clinical recovery at their last follow-up date.