{"id":5637,"date":"2022-10-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=5637"},"modified":"2022-10-15T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T06:00:00","slug":"florida-surgeon-general-recommends-against-mrna-covid-19-vaccines-for-males-aged-18-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=5637","title":{"rendered":"Florida Surgeon General Recommends Against mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines For Males Aged 18\u201339"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Authors: Mimi Nguyen Ly via The Epoch Times,<\/em><\/a> Ocyobrt 8, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Florida<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, announced new guidance on messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines on Friday,\u00a0specifically recommending against mRNA COVID-19 vaccines for males aged 18 to 39.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Messenger RNA is the technology utilized by both the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, the most administered vaccines in the United States and a number of other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new guidance came after the Florida Department of Health carried out an analysis to evaluate vaccine safety, the department said in a bulletin<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statewide analysis of vaccinated Florida residents aged 18 years or older (pdf<\/a>) found an 84 percent increase in the relative incidence of cardiac-related deaths<\/strong> among males aged 18\u201339, within 28 days of mRNA vaccination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNon-mRNA vaccines were not found to have these increased risks,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> the Florida Department of Health noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given the high level of global immunity to COVID-19, the benefit of vaccination with mRNA vaccines \u201cis likely outweighed by this abnormally high risk of cardiac-related death among men in this age group,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs such, the State Surgeon General recommends against males aged 18 to 39 from receiving mRNA COVID-19 vaccines,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> it said. \u201cThose with preexisting cardiac conditions, such as myocarditis and pericarditis, should take particular caution when making this decision.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFar less attention has been paid to safety and the concerns of many individuals have been dismissed\u2014these are important findings that should be communicated to Floridians,\u201d Ladapo said in a statement, referring to the analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the new guidance (pdf<\/a>), Florida\u2019s health department said it also \u201ccontinues to stand by\u201d its guidance for pediatric COVID-19 vaccines it issued in March. That guidance (pdf<\/a>) recommends against COVID-19 vaccination for healthy children and adolescents aged 5\u201317. It now also recommends against COVID-19 vaccination among infants and children under five years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Statewide Analysis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The analysis from the Florida Health Department that informed Ladapo\u2019s latest recommendation had sought to \u201cevaluate the risks of all-cause and cardiac-related mortality following COVID-19 vaccination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Residents in Florida aged 18 years or older who died within 25 weeks of having received a COVID-19 vaccine, since the start of the vaccination roll-out in the state\u2014Dec. 15, 2020\u2014were included. The study end date was June 1, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People were excluded from the study if they had a documented COVID-19 infection, had a COVID-19 associated death, had received a COVID-19 vaccine booster, or had received their last COVID-19 vaccine after Dec. 8 2021. The last criterion was put in place to make sure that each person was followed up after 25 weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study found that COVID-19 vaccination \u201cwas not associated with an elevated risk for all-cause mortality,\u201d but \u201cwas associated with a modestly increased risk for cardiac-related mortality 28 days following vaccination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cResults from the stratified analysis for cardiac-related death following vaccination suggests mRNA vaccination may be driving the increased risk in males, especially among males aged 18\u201339,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>according to the analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also noted that the risk for both all-cause and cardiac-related deaths was \u201csubstantially higher 28 days following COVID-19 infection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As such, the study concluded that people should weigh the risk associated with mRNA vaccination with the risk associated with COVID-19 infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The analysis was a self-controlled case series (SCCS), which is a study design originally developed to evaluate vaccine safety, the department stated. The SCCS method uses individuals as their own control, such that comparisons are made within individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration\u2019s authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use in 2020 marked the first time it did so for vaccines that use mRNA technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the FDA<\/a>, the mRNA vaccine contains a small piece of the SARS-CoV-2 virus\u2019s mRNA that instructs cells in the body to make the distinctive spike protein of the virus. When a person receives the vaccine, their body produces copies of the spike protein which \u201cdoes not cause disease, but triggers the immune system to learn to react defensively, producing an immune response\u201d against the virus, according to the agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and from Moderna have both been linked with heart inflammation, including myocarditis and pericarditis, data from around the world have suggested. Younger populations, especially young men<\/a>, have been observed to experience these conditions at much higher than expected rates, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) previously suggested. A small number of deaths from heart inflammation after COVID-19 vaccine have also been reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The primary regimens of the vaccines, which are two doses administrated several weeks apart, were insufficient to protect against infection and showed waning efficacy in protecting against hospitalization amid newly-emerging variants. This prompted the governments of many countries to recommend boosters and subsequent boosters throughout the COVID-19 pa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Authors: Mimi Nguyen Ly via The Epoch Times, Ocyobrt 8, 2022 Florida\u2019s\u00a0Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, announced new guidance on messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines on Friday,\u00a0specifically recommending against mRNA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,290,337,425,426,939,525,946,974,607],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adverse-event-reporting","category-long-term-effects","category-mrna","category-pediatric-health","category-pediatric-health-2","category-safety-studies","category-sex-related-outcome","category-side-effects","category-vaccine-long-term-safety","category-vaccine-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}