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by linuxftw 900 days ago
Here's a quote from the very Reuters article you linked:

> The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said last week that heart inflammation after receiving the Pfizer vaccine had been no cause for concern as such incidents were similar rate to those in the general population.

The CDC and other agencies also continue to heavily downplay the risk as 'mild myocarditis.'

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"No cause for concern" and "denied any association" are not the same thing.
Both of those are 100% accurate claims.

So what are you actually upset about?

Yes, and that’s accurate. People have carefully monitored it, but the risk is very low and much lower than getting COVID. That doesn’t fit any definition of “ignoring” in the English dictionary just because antivaxxers would desperately love to have something they weren’t wrong about.
The risk of myocarditis may be higher for an unvaccinated person than a vaccinated person which makes the "downplaying" much more nuanced, doesn't it?