Several accounts expressed outrage that a New York hospital with a world-class pericardial/myocardial disease center ran an ad about treatments for inflammation of the heart muscle, or myocarditis. The posts suggest a conspiracy to normalize myocarditis caused by “experimental mRNA injections.”
Prebunking messaging may explain that myocarditis was recognized for decades before the pandemic as a rare condition that may be triggered by infections and exposure to toxic substances, such as certain illicit drugs and animal venom. Early in the pandemic, COVID-19 infection was found to dramatically increase the risk of heart muscle inflammation. Myocarditis risk after COVID-19 vaccination is far lower than after COVID-19 infection. Vaccination also reduces the risk of COVID-19-related heart complications, severe illness, long COVID, hospitalization, and death.
