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Covid jabs might raise the risk of sudden cardiac deaths in young women, official data revealed today.
Government analysts trawled through data from England's historic roll-out in order to re-check the safety profile of vaccines in under-30s.
No significant increase in deaths among the vaccinated was uncovered, debunking one of the biggest current conspiracy theories surrounding the lockdown-banishing scheme.
Although when the results were broken down further, experts found an elevated risk of cardiac-related deaths in women for one type of jab.
Data collected by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed women who got a non-mRNA jab were 3.5 times more likely to die of such ailments within 12 weeks of being vaccinated.
This chart shows the risk increased risk of cardiac death in young people in England following a Covid vaccination according to the ONS analysis. Coloured lines represent the risk recorded through the data. Each bracket shows the lower and higher estimates with the centre dot representing the overall average. A result grater than 1 indicates a greater risk of a cardiac death, while less than 1 is a reduced risk. Young women (pink lines) who got a non-mRNA Covid jab saw a 3.5 times higher risk of death in the 12 weeks post-vaccination. While increases in males deaths (blue) was also observed for non-RNA jabs and in some estimates for mRNA vaccines the ONS said the data range was too large for it to be considered as evidence of an increased risk
This was compared to after that time-frame, as opposed to the unvaccinated.
Looking at the figures this way allowed the ONS team to spot any noticeable link to vaccination.
Some deaths linked to vaccines might have been missed in official figures, hence the need to look at the data another way.
Non-mRNA jabs include ones made by AstraZeneca and Novavax, which were the only two available during the period the study covered.
Although, no data on specific vaccine brand was included in the analysis.
Writing in the journal Nature, the ONS team concluded that 11 cardiac deaths in young women may be attributable to non-mRNA jabs.
However, the study doesn't directly prove that any deaths were caused by any vaccine.
Fatalities could, for example, have been from an unrelated health condition or even a Covid infection itself given the virus is known to cause similar cardiac effects.
Researchers said young women given non-mRNA jabs in the period studied tended to be classified as clinically vulnerable, hence why they were prioritized for jabs.
This factor may have explained their increased risk of death, the team suggested.
No similar heightened risk was found in men. Academics did not offer a reason as to why, however, as that was beyond the scope of the analysis.
Nor did they uncover any proof that mRNA jabs, such as ones made by Pfizer and Moderna, carried such risk.
That disproves a conspiracy theory beloved by anti-vaxxers that the mRNA shots are responsible for a wave of 'sudden' deaths.
Just 75 Brits have been killed by Covid vaccines, official statistics show. It equates to roughly one death for every 2.1million jabs dished out in the UK
In fact, the study, which also examined the general risk of death after testing positive for Covid , found unvaccinated young people had significantly higher chance of dying than the jabbed from 'all causes'.
Researchers opted to look at the 12 week period post vaccination as this was the original time period set between vaccination doses.
The analysis was based on data from between December 8 2020, when Covid jabs were first rolled out, until May 25 last year.
It included people in England between the ages of 12 and 29, with researchers looking at this group specifically in response to some studies pointing to a risk of cardiac diseases in young people post-Covid vaccination.
While credited with saving the nation from an endless lockdown and thousands of lives, Covid vaccines, like any medical treatment, aren't risk free.
For example, mRNA vaccines can, in extremely rare cases, cause myocarditis. This inflammation of the heart is particularly a risk for young men and boys.
And the AstraZeneca jab was withdrawn for the under-40s in the UK in April 2021 after it was linked to a rare, but life-threatening, risk of developing blood clots.
Vahé Nafilyan, a
