The state of Florida now requires all patients to be warned of the potential for cardiac complications (heart attack, cardiac arrest) when receiving COVID mRNA vaccines.
Florida’s Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo (pictured right with Gov. Ron DeSantis) recommends against the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for males ages 18-39 years old.
New guidance issued on October 7 by the Florida Department of Health states that patients “should be informed of the possible cardiac complications that can arise after receiving an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.”
The new guidance is based on medical analysis that shows “an 84% increase in the relative incidence of cardiac-related death among males 18-39 years old within 28 days following mRNA vaccination.”
Dr. Ladapo posted the data analysis on his Twitter page but his tweet was removed as medical misinformation.
Dr. Ladapo’s tweet was restored hours later after massive public backlash. You can read the tweet below.
Today, we released an analysis on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines the public needs to be aware of. This analysis showed an increased risk of cardiac-related death among men 18-39. FL will not be silent on the truth.
Guidance: https://t.co/DcWZLoMU5E
Press Release: https://t.co/Y0r9yepi7F— Joseph A. Ladapo, MD, PhD (@FLSurgeonGen) October 7, 2022
#1. "Diagnosis codes for cardiac-related deaths are imperfect."
Yes! But that is true for every subgroup we examined. Only in young men was the risk extremely high, and it was also increased in older men.
— Joseph A. Ladapo, MD, PhD (@FLSurgeonGen) October 10, 2022
#2. "COVID test information was only available on death certificates."
No!
We used all of our data resources-test results, vaccine records, death records-to exclude individuals who had documented COVID-19 infection, as we write in the Methods section.
— Joseph A. Ladapo, MD, PhD (@FLSurgeonGen) October 10, 2022
#3. "The sample size is too small."
3a. Elevated cardiac risk was also found in older men, and there were thousands of deaths in this group.
3b. The total cardiac deaths meeting inclusion criteria among young men was 77, not 20, as has been going around the web.
— Joseph A. Ladapo, MD, PhD (@FLSurgeonGen) October 10, 2022
Finally, is it really that hard to imagine that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines that increase myocarditis in young men by 10x, 20x, or 30x (see Karlstad et al,
JAMA Cardiology, 2022) also increase the risk of cardiac death in that age group?
Of course it's not, and we all know that. ?— Joseph A. Ladapo, MD, PhD (@FLSurgeonGen) October 10, 2022
