claim: “Myocarditis and pericarditis only occur after vaccination and not after COVID-19 infection.”
evidence: In June 2024, the news outlet The Epoch Times claimed that new data from England’s National Health Service (NHS) showed that "myocarditis and pericarditis only occur after vaccination and not after COVID-19 infection." The Epoch Times has repeatedly published vaccine misinformation. [...] In order to support The Epoch Times’ claim that myocarditis "only occur[s] after vaccination and not after COVID-19 infection", one would need to compare people who were exposed to one of two things: a COVID-19 vaccine or COVID-19, but not both. If a vaccinated person also got COVID-19 and then developed myocarditis, it would be impossible to know for sure if the cause was the vaccine or COVID-19 without additional information. [...] - 3 – Wong et al. (2022) Risk of myocarditis and pericarditis after the COVID-19 mRNA vaccination in the USA: a cohort study in claims databases. The Lancet.