Could anything better illustrate the absurdity of the British Heart Foundation's silence on Covid vaccination as a possible factor in the continuing, unexplained rise of excess deaths from CVD?
https://www.bhf.org.uk/informations...s-and-covid-19-vaccines-should-you-be-worried
That doesn't look like silence to me.
The BHF echoes the conclusions of the CDC in the US, and other studies around the world. Vaccinated people are reported to exhibit cardiovascular conditions at a very low rate (myocarditis or pericarditis in males over 30, for example, is recorded in 0.1% of people within 21 days of receiving any number of COVID vaccination doses). In males over 30 who contract COVID19, that figure jumps to 1.1%. i.e you're 11x more likely to have heart conditions after having COVID, than after having a vaccination.* For the 100,000 excess CVD deaths reported, if all 100,000 were vaccinated, that would mean 10 of those excess deaths could be associated with vaccination, and that's without any causative link established.
Contracting COVID19 has been shown to significantly increase the rate of cardiovascular disease for a year or more after infection. Whilst your graph suggestively draws on a start date for vaccination programs, it's utterly useless for analysis without the rate of vaccination included. For example, a large increase in UK excess mortality in those graphs is reported for Q2 2020 (long before vaccines were available) and for Q1 2021. But by the end of Q1 2021 only 40% of the UK population had even received a single dose of a vaccine. Were they linked, you'd expect the increase to continue well into Q2 and Q3 of 2021, when UK vaccination rates increased from 40% to 75+%.
Bizarrely, the graph actually shows a decrease in cumulative deaths in that period? A decrease in a cumulative measure can only occur if less deaths are occurring than normal, i.e. excess deaths are negative. So in a period where UK vaccination rates jumped from 40 to 75%, fewer people died than would be expected under normal circumstances? So should we conclude that Covid vaccines actually protect you from becoming an excess death statistic? Or perhaps that the two aren't correlated at all.
A look at the Norway data shows excess deaths dropped below the average of the previous 8 years immediately after vaccination started, fantastic! Or perhaps excess deaths is a horrendous measure to be using when trying to infer conclusions about individual causes of death. Given for example, lockdowns result in less risky behaviour (traffic deaths dropped dramatically), masking/social distancing led to an exceptionally mild flu season around the world,
If we want to trust this data to draw conclusions, it's equally, if not much better explained by considering the well-known long-term impact COVID19 has on the body, including the heart. A large number of people who survive their initial COVID19 infection are left with heart damage, which would lead to CVD mortality in the months/years following their infection. We'll be seeing this elevated rate of CVD deaths for years to come, as that permanent heart damage translates to CVD incidents. Excess death may well stay high as well as the impact of Covid19 on the hearts, lungs, kidneys, brains, of those infected translate to early mortality, and the impact of disrupted healthcare for issues such as cancer screening and treatment are felt.
If there is good evidence that vaccination can lead to signficant long-term heart damage, this isn't it.
*The 1.1% figure excludes cardiovascular events which occur during the active COVID19 infection, this is only reporting after-effects of vaccination vs after-effects of Covid.