{"id":128839,"date":"2021-10-10T21:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T04:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/a-paper-linking-covid-19-vaccines-to-high-risk-of-myocarditis-has-been-withdrawn"},"modified":"2021-10-10T21:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T04:22:37","slug":"a-paper-linking-covid-19-vaccines-to-high-risk-of-myocarditis-has-been-withdrawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/a-paper-linking-covid-19-vaccines-to-high-risk-of-myocarditis-has-been-withdrawn","title":{"rendered":"A Paper Linking COVID-19 Vaccines to High Risk of Myocarditis Has Been Withdrawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-paper-linking-covid-19-vaccines-to-high-risk-of-myocarditis-has-been-withdrawn2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, the numbers used by the study were wrong. The authors largely underestimated the amount of vaccines delivered, giving a number 25 times smaller than the actual amount.<\/p>\n<p>They initially said that the number of vaccines delivered was 32,379 \u2014 when it was actually 854,930.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of this miscalculation, the study was withdrawn on September 24 with the researchers saying in a statement: Our reported incidence appeared vastly inflated by an incorrectly small denominator (i.e. number of doses administered over the time period of the study).<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A preprint study first uploaded to <em>MedRxiv<\/em> that claimed a 1 in 1,000 risk of contracting myocarditis from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/covid-doctors-scientists-privately-asked-biden-admin-scrap-booster-campaign-report-2021-10?r=US&IR=TIR=T\">COVID-19 vaccination<\/a> has been withdrawn due to miscalculations.<\/p>\n<p><em>MedRxiv<\/em> is a website that publishes studies that have yet to be peer-reviewed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/factcheck-preprint-myocarditiswithdrawn-idUSL1N2QX1WS\">according to Reuters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The study was first published on September 16 and conducted by researchers at The University of Ottawa Heart Institute. It was widely used to promote the idea that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/singapore-us-quarantine-free-travel-before-end-2021-10\">COVID-19 vaccine<\/a> is unsafe for use.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/a-paper-linking-covid-19-vaccines-to-high-risk-of-myocarditis-has-been-withdrawn\">Continue reading \u201cA Paper Linking COVID-19 Vaccines to High Risk of Myocarditis Has Been Withdrawn\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However, the numbers used by the study were wrong. The authors largely underestimated the amount of vaccines delivered, giving a number 25 times smaller than the actual amount. They initially said that the number of vaccines delivered was 32,379 \u2014 when it was actually 854,930. As a result of this miscalculation, the study was withdrawn [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}