Bambino, McDingDong, and FatCity, As to your concerns about getting myocarditis after the vaccine, again, you can always get the J&J vaccine, instead of an mRNA vaccine, which will reduce your risk from close to "0" to infinitesimally close to "0". Then you can apply for jobs that require a vaccine, be politically correct, and truthfully tell your dates that you've been vaccinated so it's OK to DFK. And so much more.
From one of the sources that follows, about 2.1 out of every 100,000 people who received an mRNA vaccine were identified with myocarditis. From another, 0.6 people out of every 100,000 were identified with myocarditis. But 350 out of 100,000 (5,069 out of 1,452,773 in the last link) who actually got the disease ended up with a diagnosis of myocarditis. Since most people are either going to get vaccinated or get the disease or both, if you're concerned about myocarditis, you're better off getting the vaccine.
This squares with what many have been saying, that COVID is as much of a disease of the circulatory system as a disease of the respiratory system.
From a paper written by a group of Israeli physicians,
Among patients in a large Israeli health care system who had received at least one dose of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine, the estimated incidence of myocarditis was 2.13 cases per 100,000 persons; the highest incidence was among male patients between the ages of 16 and 29 years. Most cases of myocarditis were mild or moderate in severity.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2110737
From a study about people in the Kaiser Permanente system, published in Journal of the American Medical Association,
In this population-based cohort study of 2 392 924 individuals who received at least 1 dose of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, acute myocarditis was rare, at an incidence of 5.8 cases per 1 million individuals after the second dose (1 case per 172 414 fully vaccinated individuals).
Tiny's note: that's about 0.6 case of myocarditis per 100,000 fully vaccinated people.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...rticle/2784800
From a CDC paper,
Within the cohort of 36,005,294 patients, 1,452,773 (4.0%) received a diagnosis of COVID-19 during March 2020–January 2021, and 5,069 (0.01%) received a diagnosis of myocarditis during March 2020–February 2021.
(Tiny's note: that's 349 out of 100,000 COVID patients, who had the disease, identified with myocarditis.)
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e5.htm
And if you do get myocarditis from the vaccine, it's not the end of the world. From CDC web site:
Most patients with myocarditis or pericarditis who received care responded well to medicine and rest and felt better quickly.
Patients can usually return to their normal daily activities after their symptoms improve. Those who have been diagnosed with myocarditis should consult with their cardiologist (heart doctor) about return to exercise or sports.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019...ocarditis.html