Due diligence re Reuters fact-check
Pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Frank Han
The expert for Reuters’ factcheck of the Thai heart/vaccine paper is US pediatric cardiologist Frank Han, written on August 13th. His commentary on the Thai heart/vaccine paper is here:
“there are multiple actors distorting the cardiac evaluation that was done, which demands immediate discussion from a board-certified pediatric cardiologist – like me.”
Dr. Han takes issue with the use of elevated troponin for diagnosing subclinical (symptomless) myocarditis:
“Troponins are a useful test to help confirm myocarditis, but I emphasize that troponin in the bloodstream is not diagnostic of myocarditis by itself – it is a cardiologist’s role is to sort out all the other causes of troponin in the bloodstream such as physical exercise.”
I will comment at this juncture that physical exercise is an extremely uncommon cause of elevated troponin in my experience of 10 years in emergency medicine. Further along in his analysis, Dr. Han quotes a variety of different causes of elevated troponin, in order to cast doubt on the specificity of troponin for diagnosing heart muscle damage:
I will comment that a number of these conditions are rare, easily identified, and would involve serious illness.
Dr. Han concludes:
“In the end, to the trained observer, there are no shocking findings in this study. Overall, it supports the current body of knowledge regarding COVID vaccination myocarditis.”
I would take issue here, as this is the first prospective study of mRNA vaccination which systematically assessed heart health before and after vaccination, in the highest-risk group - young people - after the highest-risk intervention: second mRNA vaccination. Its findings of common adverse events on the heart is significant for three very important reasons:
This large/obvious signal should have been identified in the Pfizer study from early 2021 of children and adolescents
It has immediate implications for post-vaccination care and monitoring of adolescents
It has implications for risk-benefit calculations for both individuals and governments with respect to mRNA vaccination for covid in adolescents.
I wonder whether Dr. Han has reached out to the corresponding author, Dr. Chayasin Mansanguan, with his concerns, or to the Journal of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, which published the article on August 19th.
He’s a paid shill! I love that you made the Sequel to the fall of the cabal with your VAERS Data 👏🏼 I don’t know how to send you a screen shot in the comment.
First thought that I have is "if those factors were there, they would likely have been present at baseline as well - people without renal disease suddenly having increased troponin due to NEW renal disease is also a concern." Really - any way you slice it, people with normal bloodwork pre-vaccine have almost a 30% rate of abnormal bloodwork that is typically caused by serious health issues post-vaccination. Who cares whether it's being caused by myocarditis or renal disease or something else - this is a substantial change in the health of a patient and shouldn't be whitewashed away by people who want to push vaccination as safe no matter what. The pediatric cardiologist should be ashamed of himself for towing the party line rather than calling for further safety studies. (And who in their right mind accepts a 3% myo/pericarditis rate in healthy teens when covid doesn't have nearly that rate of complications in healthy teens? That part was confirmed and isn't just an elevated marker in the blood.)