Top Florida Doctor Warns Young Men COVID Vaccines Pose ‘High Risk’ of Death

Florida’s Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo warned on Friday against young men receiving COVID-19 vaccines, citing an analysis by the state health department that said they pose “high risk” of death.

“Today, we released an analysis on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines the public needs to be aware of. This analysis showed an increased risk of cardiac-related death among men 18-39. FL will not be silent on the truth,” Ladapo tweeted.

The state’s health department released a statement on Friday stating that it carried out an analysis using a self-controlled case series technique to evaluate vaccine safety.

The department said that the analysis showed that there is an 84 percent increase in “relative incidence of cardiac-related death among males 18-39 years old within 28 days” after vaccination that contains messenger RNA (mRNA), which is used in the PfizerBioNTech and the Moderna vaccines.

The analysis clarified that COVID-19 vaccination was associated with a “modestly increased risk for cardiac-related mortality” 28 days after receiving the vaccine.

The primary analysis was conducted on Floridians who were 18 years and older “who died within 25-weeks of COVID-19 vaccination” since the vaccines were first rolled out in December 2020.

However, the analysis excluded individuals who had a confirmed COVID-19 infection, received a booster or received their last COVID-19 vaccination after December 8, 2021. The study concluded on June 1.

“Individuals with preexisting cardiac conditions, such as myocarditis and pericarditis, should take particular caution when considering vaccination and discuss with their health care provider,” the state’s health department said in the statement.

“Based on currently available data, patients should be informed of the possible cardiac complications that can arise after receiving a mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. With a high level of global immunity to COVID-19, the benefit of vaccination is likely outweighed by this abnormally high risk of cardiac related death among men in this age group,” it added as new guidelines.

The analysis also revealed that men over 60 years old had a 10 percent increased risk of cardiac-related death within 28 days of receiving vaccines that contain mRNA. It also showed that vaccines without mRNA didn’t have these increased risks among any population.

In April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report that said cardiac complications, especially myocarditis and pericarditis, have been connected with COVID-19 infection and mRNA COVID-19 vaccination.

The agency said that cases of myocarditis or pericarditis were “calculated” after unspecified doses of mRNA Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines in an effort to compare the risk for cardiac outcomes after COVID infections to after vaccines.

“The incidence of cardiac outcomes after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination was highest for males aged 12–17 years after the second vaccine dose; however, within this demographic group, the risk for cardiac outcomes was 1.8–5.6 times as high after SARS-CoV-2 infection than after the second vaccine dose,” the CDC said in the report.

As of Friday, over 110 million people in the United States have received the first COVID vaccine booster dose, according to the CDC’s data tracker.

Newsweek reached out to the Florida Department of Health, the Immunization Action Coalition, the Galveston National Laboratory, and vaccine experts Ruth Karron and Joshua M. Sharfstein with the Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health.