Myocarditis: A Deep Dive into Covid Era Heart Damage

Introduction

Discussion about myocarditis caused by the covid vaccination has reached the mainstream media in the past few months following release of the NZ Royal Commission Phase 2 covid inquiry report. However, the discussion has been very narrow and focused on who knew what and when regarding recommending and mandating the vaccine to 12-17 yr old New Zealanders.

The public discussion should be much broader. Previously myocarditis was very rare, with most doctors never seeing it and cardiologists perhaps only diagnosing a handful of cases, or fewer, in their whole careers. Now, everyone has heard of it or knows an affected person.  There are hundreds, if not thousands, of adversely affected New Zealanders ranging from those who have damaged hearts but don’t know it, to those who have very obviously damaged hearts affecting their everyday life to those officially recognised as having died from post-vaccine myocarditis.  There are also an unknown number who have died suddenly, often during or following sporting activities or in their sleep, without a clear diagnosis or even proper attempt at one.

Symptoms

Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle.  The most common symptoms are chest pain, heaviness or tightness, shortness of breath, palpitations (awareness of the heartbeat), fatigue.  Other symptoms could include feeling dizzy or lightheaded or sudden collapse.  Sudden death from an arrhythmia is also possible. Pre-covid it was always regarded as a very serious disease, with around 1 in 5 patients not surviving to the 5 year mark. 

In some cases these serious symptoms have been brushed off as ‘anxiety’ or ‘panic attacks’ when people have presented to medical services post vaccination.

The symptoms may be transient and last for a few days, or they may persist for weeks, months or years.  They could be intermittent or continuous.  Some might experience mild and barely noticeable symptoms, while for others they could be severe and impossible to ignore.  Further encounters with spike protein either by repeat vaccination or covid infection, will exacerbate symptoms for some.

Diagnosis

Myocarditis is diagnosed based on symptoms (as above), physical examination findings, blood tests, ECG, echocardiogram, cardiac MRI scans and in some cases, endomyocardial biopsy (sample of heart tissue taken to be looked at under the microscope).  It can be diagnosed on post mortem examination also.  If subtle, or with inadequate sampling, it can also easily be missed on post mortem examination.  It will certainly be missed if it is not looked for. 

Treatment

There are various treatments ranging from rest and avoidance of exercise, to medications such as anti-inflammatory drugs or colchicine, to medications for heart failure, to a need for heart transplantation in severe cases.

If myocarditis has been caused by mRNA vaccination, some doctors are recommending supplements to help remove vaccine products and resultant spike protein from the body.  As this is a novel and highly complex medical condition, treatments are evolving.  However limited resources are being put into researching optimal treatment. There are various protocols of prescription and non-prescription products based on observation and experience which have helped some people, though modern medicine regards spike protein syndromes as difficult to treat and little understood. This document, an action plan advising on testing and treatment, was prepared for Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices (ACIP), the US CDC vaccine approval committee, that was likely to rein in the mRNA products before a judge ruled the committee to have been formed unlawfully. We covered this recent step on the bumpy path to honest disclosure in our article here. Take heart, a similar committee is being formed in a legally watertight way.

Myocarditis can cause death

The four NZ deaths officially recognised as due to covid vaccination have all been caused by myocarditis.  It is our view that there are a number of other New Zealanders who have died from post vaccine myocarditis who have not been recognised, acknowledged or compensated. [It is also our view that there are many more New Zealanders who have died from other adverse effects of covid vaccination.]

We have also recently written about a number of other sudden unexpected NZ youth deaths; some are acknowledged to be due to myocarditis (but not attributed to any underlying cause) and others are also likely to be so, despite the coroners stating cause of death was ‘unascertained’ or from ‘presumed natural causes’.  

Unless the family have asked, the coroners have not commented on the covid vaccination status of these young people and have not determined whether covid vaccination had anything to do with the myocarditis or the sudden death.  We consider this a serious failing of our coronial system.

Long term sequelae

Inflammation of the heart muscle may cause immediate symptoms and risks, but when the acute inflammation dies down, scarring can be left in its place.  Heart muscle cells do not regenerate when damaged and scar or fibrous tissue replaces the damaged cells.  If only small areas of the heart are affected, heart function may remain relatively normal for a period of time with the potential for a reduction in pumping capacity occurring later.  However, if significant areas of the heart are affected, heart function can reduce rapidly precipitating heart failure.  Cardiology services are noticing an increase in heart failure presentations, and these are being seen in younger cohorts than previously.

In addition to heart failure, scar tissue in an electrical pathway can predispose to sudden arrhythmic death weeks, months or years after the initial myocarditis.

Is it actually worse from covid infection?

Repeated pronouncements from politicians and doctors alike claim that the risk of getting, and/or severity of, myocarditis is far higher from covid infection than from vaccination.  We have not seen any NZ data to support this and have presented numerous peer-reviewed papers to officials that show the opposite.

A word about pericarditis

This is inflammation of the pericardial sac which surrounds the heart. It is not fatal nor typically a cause of heart failure unless there is a large amount of fluid which compresses the heart. But the symptoms can be very frightening, with chest pain, palpitations and breathlessness which can go on for years. 

Myocarditis in New Zealand

A substantial number of myocarditis and pericarditis cases have been reported to the Centre for Adverse Reactions Monitoring (CARM) but these likely only represent a small subset of the true number of cases.

The following graphs are made from the data available in the line listing spreadsheet linked at the bottom of the last Medsafe Safety Report to Nov 2022.  

The first graph (below) shows the dates the reports to CARM were made.  As there was a surge in vaccination numbers with the vaxathon/Super Saturday (16 Oct 2021) event as well as approaching mandates, there is a surge in cases being reported. Note that the first NZ cases were reported as early as Apr and May 2021.

The second graph (below) shows the age and gender distribution of the NZ myocarditis cases reported to CARM.  It is not known if these are representative of the whole population which includes all the unreported cases.  Many cases went unreported and unrecognised as those who presented to medical services were often told they were anxious.

The limited messaging that got through to the public suggested that myocarditis was most common in young males following the second dose.  The graph shows the largest total number of cases is in 30-39 yr old males and that females are also significantly affected. [Note that this shows the number of detected cases, rather than the incidence rate, as it doesn’t include the total cohort (including undetected cases) of each age band.]

The third graph (below) shows the cases of myocarditis by dose number with both doses 1 and 2 having substantial reports. Note this is at odds with supposedly reassuring messaging that the 2nd dose tends to be the problem. 

Graph of cumulative cases reported to Medsafe as per Safety Reports.  The numbers used for the graphs above are from the line listing which appears to have recorded only cases diagnosed and presenting within 30 days of the injection.  A total of 499 cases.

However, according to the chart within the final Safety Reports at the end of November 2022, there were 974 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis.

NZ Myocarditis Study

NZ Myocarditis study: In late 2021 NZ researchers decided to study the ‘long term’ outcomes for those affected by myocarditis post covid vaccination.  This meant people had to be at least 90 days past their diagnosis.  [It is our view this represents short, or at most medium, term outcomes.  It also excludes all those who died suddenly shortly after their vaccination and weren’t alive to be included at 90 days.]  The researchers approached the people who had reported a diagnosis of post vaccination myocarditis to CARM and asked questions of those who consented, along with their doctors, to get an idea of what they experienced.

The publication date was delayed many times and although the initial date was supposed to be in early 2023, it was eventually published over 18 months later in Sept 2024.  It documented that for a large number of people symptoms had not resolved, lives were significantly impacted and their treatment within the health system was dismissive and sub optimal.

No further study has been published following up what has happened to those people though we understand research is being undertaken at Auckland University.

Pathology

There are various mechanisms of injury including autoimmunity when human cells produce a foreign protein inviting (a predictable) attack from the immune system; an over-zealous inflammatory response; the lipid nanoparticles themselves being toxic to mitochondria and provoking inflammation in their own right; and immune tolerance to the damaging spike protein caused by repeated injections actually suppressing its clearance (IgG4 class shifting).

There are few to no inflammatory cells present in normal heart muscle tissue.  When myocarditis is present, there is an increase in inflammatory cells e.g. lymphocytes.  There can also be disruption of the muscle fibres.  When the individual muscle cells die damaged cells and fibrous scar tissue remain, and many normal cells may not function properly with surrounding disruption.

More information can be found in the publication ​​​​​​​mRNA Vaccine Toxicity Section 4.4.1

Dr Peter McCullough

Many times we have posted Dr Peter McCullough’s emphatic call that all sudden death in a vaccinated young person is the vaccine until proved otherwise, which must be done properly.

Post Vaccine Symptom Check (PVSC)

Myocarditis was known to affect young people particularly, yet these very people were not monitored by Medsafe’s active monitoring system.  For some unknown reason the 12-17 yr old group were not included in any of the Post Vaccine Symptom Check surveys!!

OIA  HNZ00202118 Response:

“Post Vaccine Symptom Check (PVSC) surveys were limited to individuals aged 18 years and over.  People aged 12-17 years were not sent PVSC survey invitations, and no PVSC data was collected for that age group in 2021-2014. In 2022, there was a survey dedicated to collecting information from the guardians of 5-11-year-olds who had received the Comirnaty COVID-19 paediatric vaccine.”  

Coroner’s Reports

We have reviewed a number of pathologist and coroner reports of suddenly dead young Kiwis from 2021 to current, often at the family’s request. Some of these mention myocarditis as the cause of death and some describe features consistent with myocarditis without calling it such.  Cardiomyopathy (pathology of the heart muscle) is mentioned in other reports with no particular cause determined.

It is our opinion that coroners are avoiding looking for or commenting on the possibility of covid vaccination causing or contributing to heart damage and sudden death.

Members of the public can ask for coroner’s reports as they are publicly available documents.
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Revelations re what the Government ministers knew and when

A lot of information has come to light recently re who knew what and when. We have posted here here and here. 

Freedom NZ has done a lot of detective work digging up documents showing an apparent hiding of safety information, clearly to protect the mass vaccination juggernaut. This appears to be unlawful. 

Reality Check Radio has put out a piece detailing the results of its OIA request about the number of teens affected.  

Philip Crump, on his substack did a lot of early work on possible wrongdoing, and continues to dig into the legal tactics used to allow this situation still to be in play.  

Derek Cheng of the NZ Herald has packaged up the above into various articles for a wider audience between April and July, but paywalled, here, here, here, here, here and here.  

What now?

Regular readers will know our position. A horrendous medical crime has occurred and the public’s response should match the seriousness of what has happened to many tens of thousands (at a minimum) of Kiwis already. At least according to official figures there are many far more common serious adverse effects than cardiac inflammation, but we have shown evidence repeatedly that the actual amount of cardiac harm is far higher than the talking heads portray. In the end, however, no organ or system in the body can expect immunity from the biological consequences of this toxic gene product given to billions, and the evidence of this is piling higher – in academic papers and under the carpet. 

Clearly, NZ’s proper public reckoning must include an audit of how many people may be affected.
A review of coronial cases is also needed, not to mention uncovering the mechanisms by which coroners seem to have been co-opted into pharmaco-somnolence.

We believe all the teens who got at least a second dose need to have cardiac assessments before anyone else.

Perhaps all the people who were dismissed as having anxiety when they presented with chest pain and palpitations, and abnormally high blood pressure and fast pulse (even for stress), need to be examined specifically to rule out carditis.

Dr Peter McCullough has proposed a risk stratification for vaccinated individuals who may be concerned that they or their loved one experienced heart damage from covid vaccines. 

New Zealand’s public health system is unlikely to have the capacity to undertake this as word has it that cardiology clinics are already overwhelmed.

Private providers, and insurance companies such as Southern Cross, are clearly in the frame to help in any attempted clean up, but will be come to be seen as both hero and villain. Many private cardiologists see very well what is happening – their patients tell us – and we know from deep inside the medical insurance industry that claims (and the premiums) are skyrocketing, and that – by the time the rest of us were hit with mandates – industry back channels were flashing major warning signals about jab harms. 

In our view, there are victims of jab-induced heart damage at the hands of wrong-doing by officials. The key point is that the emerging information suggests they KNEW, but pushed on anyway, trying to cover up along the way. The degree to which all this may be criminal is being investigated by Justice Watch NZ, and NZDSOS has no shortage of evidence that we showed officials.  They must have a heart and withdraw the jabs.  ​