Does vaccine-induced myocarditis cause death?

The study identified 1,292 deaths among people 16–30 years old between June 2021–December 2022 in Oregon and looked at vaccination rates and causes of death. The data did not show a link between vaccination and previously healthy young persons.

The tweet cites an article from the Epoch Times, a far-right media company rated “Unreliable, Problematic” and affiliated with the Falun Gong religious movement. The primary claim that this CDC study doesn’t “disprove a link between COVID-19 vaccines and sudden deaths among young people” is accurate since proving a negative is tricky.

In general, proving a negative (proving that the vaccine doesn’t cause cardiac deaths) is much more difficult and often impossible compared to proving a positive. Science usually tries to find out and show what exists or what effects happen instead of trying to prove that something doesn’t exist or happen. The authors of the study even explained that one of the limitations of their study included a small sample size, and for a very rare event, you’d need a very large sample size to discover it.

One of the things pointed out in the article in the Epoch Times was that a previous Korean study did show a link between vaccination and sudden death. What the data showed was that out of over 44.2 million individuals who had been vaccinated, they found eight (8) deaths under the age of 45 (.000018%) connected to sudden cardiac death as a result of vaccination-related myocarditis.