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Failure or Crypto-Eugenics In Israel and the US. · 2026-09-12
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The Catastrophically Delayed COVID Shot Heart Disease Signal - Failure or Crypto-Eugenics In Israel and the US.
Failure or Crypto-Eugenics In Israel and the US. · 2026-09-12
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10.17179/excli2026-9596
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Who Controls Covid-Related Medical Data? Copyright and Personal Data
IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law · 2021
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Persistent Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings in a Cohort of Adolescents with Post-Coronavirus Disease 2019 mRNA Vaccine Myopericarditis
The Journal of Pediatrics · 2022
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OpenSAFELY: Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccination in Children and Adolescents
Epidemiology · 2026
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The Incidence of Myocarditis and Pericarditis in Post COVID-19 Unvaccinated Patients—A Large Population-Based Study
Journal of Clinical Medicine · 2022
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Clinical outcomes of myocarditis after SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination in four Nordic countries: population based cohort study
BMJ Medicine · 2023
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Epidemiology of Acute Myocarditis/Pericarditis in Hong Kong Adolescents Following Comirnaty Vaccination
Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2022
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SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and Myocarditis in a Nordic Cohort Study of 23 Million Residents
JAMA Cardiology · 2022
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Claim 1 of 9Not checkedIsrael and Pfizer had a real-world data-sharing relationship beginning in January 2021, and Israel was sending effectiveness and safety data to Pfizer while myocarditis reports were also moving through pharmacovigilance channels.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 2 of 9Not checkedOn February 28, 2021, Israel’s Ministry of Health contacted the CDC and EMA about “a large number of reports of myocarditis, particularly in young people,” after Pfizer vaccination.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 3 of 9Not checkedThe article says Israel’s internal file had already recorded 157 hospitalizations and 46 deaths by March 25, 2021, including 65 myocarditis or pericarditis hospitalizations, and later grew to 531 hospitalization records and 67 unique deaths.View evidenceHide evidence
As stated157 hospitalizations and 46 deaths; later 531 hospitalization records and 67 unique deaths
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Claim 4 of 9Not checkedIsrael presented its safety data to the CDC/FDA VaST work group on April 5, 2021, and the article says those slides documented 62 myocarditis cases, 15 pericarditis cases, and 48 deaths reported in proximity to vaccination.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 5 of 9Not checkedThe article argues that Israel’s domestic vaccine-side-effect reporting system failed badly: most reports were not entered, some health funds had missing or rejected submissions, and the Ministry kept an Excel-based tracking file with no audit trail.View evidenceHide evidence
As stated82% missing; 354,200 reports received, 62,000 recorded
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Claim 6 of 9Not checkedFor the United States, the article claims Israel’s myocarditis warning reached CDC/FDA in late February and early March 2021, but U.S. officials initially minimized the signal and said they had no evidence of a problem from VAERS/VSD.View evidenceHide evidence
As statednearly four months
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Claim 7 of 9Not checkedThe article says CDC and FDA chose not to issue a Health Alert Network bulletin, softened the messaging into a webpage, and the public-facing acknowledgment of myocarditis came later and in weaker form than the draft warning.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 8 of 9Not checkedThe article presents ACIP and later studies as showing that myocarditis risk was concentrated in young males and that some myocarditis cases had persistent MRI findings, while also stating that vaccinated myocarditis outcomes were generally better than infection-associated myocarditis.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 9 of 9Not checkedThe article argues that officials used benefit-risk framing that treated vaccination and infection as mutually exclusive, despite vaccines not reliably preventing infection, and that this understating of risk was a communications choice rather than a technical constraint.View evidenceHide evidence
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Crossref, PubMed, Europe PMC · 22 candidate papers
Who Controls Covid-Related Medical Data? Copyright and Personal Data
IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law · 2021 · Crossref
Persistent Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings in a Cohort of Adolescents with Post-Coronavirus Disease 2019 mRNA Vaccine Myopericarditis
The Journal of Pediatrics · 2022 · Crossref
OpenSAFELY: Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccination in Children and Adolescents
Epidemiology · 2026 · Crossref
The Incidence of Myocarditis and Pericarditis in Post COVID-19 Unvaccinated Patients—A Large Population-Based Study
Journal of Clinical Medicine · 2022 · Crossref
Clinical outcomes of myocarditis after SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination in four Nordic countries: population based cohort study
BMJ Medicine · 2023 · Crossref
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