Young people who were infected with COVID-19 while unvaccinated had higher recorded rates of myocarditis, pericarditis, and death than those who received a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and were never infected, according to a study of nearly 4.1 million patient records published in the journal Vaccine.
The comparison at the center of that sentence is the reason the study matters. Most public arguments about vaccine-associated heart inflammation weigh vaccination against doing nothing. This analysis weighs vaccination against the realistic alternative: catching the virus without protection.
