Statements from public health agencies that suggest SARS-CoV-2 infection causes more myocarditis than the vaccines are false claims.
I have heard numerous public health officials state that SARS-CoV-2 infection causes more myocarditis than COVID-19 vaccination. The American College of Cardiology has used this platform as a twisted rationale for giving out COVID-19 vaccines, and in a perverted manner, creating more myocarditis in the population.
If SARS-CoV-2 infection caused myocarditis or inflammation of heart muscle tissue, then it would be seen on autopsy in fatal cases of COVID-19. Poloni et al specifically examined the hearts of fatal COVID-19 cases and concluded the virus does not infect the heart.
Another autopsy study of fatal COVID-19 pneumonia by Maccio, et al found inflammation of the small capillaries serving the heart called endotheliitis but not the heart muscle tissue itself (no myocarditis shown in Figure 6 panel a). This distinguished COVID-19 from influenza which had no inflammation of blood vessels or heart muscle. But importantly, Maccio, et al did NOT find myocarditis in COVID-19 cases.
So the next time you see an advertisement by the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex that SARS-CoV-2 infection causes more myocarditis than the vaccines, as a means of minimizing risks with the injections, remember the virus does not infect the heart and does not cause myocarditis with the primary infection. These are false claims made from automated hospital data and not adjudicated, autopsy-proven cases.
The COVID-19 vaccines install mRNA in the heart and the Spike protein directly damages and incites inflammation into the heart muscle causing the pathophysiology we see every day in cardiology practice. As Poloni and Maccio have shown, SARS-CoV-2 does not infect the heart muscle or cause myocarditis.
