Chris Seeks Evidence for Official Myocarditis Statistics

Chris Seeks Evidence for Official Myocarditis Statistics

Christopher Chope Conservative, Christchurch

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution by the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health and Social Care of 24 October 2022, Official Report, column 21WH, on what evidential basis she said that (a) there were an estimated 1,500 cases of myocarditis per million patients with covid-19 and (b) the myocarditis suffered by those patients was caused by covid-19; and if she will place this evidence in the Library of the House.

Neil O'Brien The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care

Evidence of an estimated 1,500 cases of myocarditis per million patients with COVID-19 infection derives from the study ‘Association Between COVID-19 and Myocarditis Using Hospital-Based Administrative Data — United States, March 2020–January 2021’ which is available at the following link:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e5.htm#:~:text=Some%20studies%20have%20indicated%20an,varied%20by%20sex%20and%20age

This study found that patients with COVID-19 had almost 16 times the risk of myocarditis in comparison with patients without COVID-19.

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