The study, out on Wednesday, appears to have found NO extra long-term cardiovascular risks for most people infected with Covid. But the Cleveland Clinic, NIH, and the authors pretended the opposite.

I am SO tired of this nonstop dishonesty about EVERYTHING that the corrupt (of every stripe) continue blaring at the rest of us. This particular pustule of dishonesty appears to be cover for the COVID "vaccine"s role in causing cardiovascular damage and death in many thousands of victims.

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-authors-of-a-big-new-paper

. . . The entire extra danger they found appears to have come only from the extreme risk suffered by about 2,000 people who were hospitalized with a Covid-19 infection. Those people were almost four times as likely to die or have heart attacks or strokes as the control group.

. . . Specifically, 350 of the non-hospitalized group had MACE events in three years, a rate of 4.3 percent. In contrast, 9,183 people in the control group of 217,730 suffered similar events, a rate of 4.2 percent.³

The authors did not disclose these facts anywhere in the paper. They are available only in the supplemental appendix. Even there they have to be reverse-engineered, as they are never provided openly.

In the paper itself, the authors briefly mentioned the doubled risk for the entire group of 10,000. They used the phrase “all levels of severity” to make it sound like the non-hospitalized group had double the risk, while the hospitalized group had four times.

This wording is canny: “all levels of severity” includes rather than excludes the hospitalized group, so authors are basically double-counting the hospitalized group’s risk to hide the lack of extra danger for everyone else.

The authors then spent the rest of the paper focusing on the hospitalized group, parsing its risk in many different ways.

But they never - never, not even in the supplemental data appendix - provided a risk ratio for the non-hospitalized patients.

This was scientific and medical malpractice. Roughly 98 percent of all adults, and 90-95 percent of adults over 60, who get Covid are healthy enough to recover without hospitalization. Their risk - or lack thereof — should have been clearly disclosed.

The authors appear to know just what they were doing. They began their conclusion: “Hospitalization for COVID-19 [emphasis added] represents a coronary artery disease risk equivalent…”

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