[yummybrainz]

> However, Wu noted, if the inflammation is severe the resulting heart injury can be quite debilitating, leading to hospitalizations; ICU admissions for critically ill patients; and deaths, albeit rarely.

> “But COVID’s worse,” he added. A case of COVID-19 is about 10 times as likely to induce myocarditis as an mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccination, Wu said. That’s in addition to all the other trouble it causes.

I recall hearing about this as a low-probability potential side effect during the pandemic. What do you mean by "swept this under the rug"?

[mc32]

Twitter and Facebook were urged to label posts around myocarditis as “misleading” and wanted such claims suppressed.

[acdha]

Who, specifically, urged them and what was the exact request? There was plenty of open scientific discussion on this point so it’s not like it was a secret but, as this article also notes, the risk is significantly higher from COVID.

[triceratops]

Don't go on Twitter and Facebook. Problem solved.

[estearum]

What were the specific claims being made?

[ericmcer]

I mean your being a bit obtuse if you don't think there was a stigma around criticizing the vaccine in 2021/22.

Writing a LinkedIn/Facebook post about how the vaccine causes heart problems might result in you losing your job and would definitely cause you to lose a few friends. There was a massive stigma around pointing out flaws in vaccines at that time, it was not a nuanced issue, either you were all in or you were a psycho anti-vax nut.

[cthalupa]

The problem is that if you're criticizing the vaccine for this, you're at best uninformed, and quite often, doing so in bad faith.

As has been pointed out in the thread you're responding to, it causes these effects at lower rates and lower severities than just getting covid while unvaccinated. It's also just something we've known some flu vaccines to do for decades now. (And just the regular old flu can cause it, too)