Myocarditis in the Autopsies of Five that “Suddenly Died”

Posted on by Jesse Santiano, M.D.

The autopsy of five COVID-jabbed people who suddenly died showed vaccine-induced-myocarditis. That was the conclusion of the pathologists from Heidelberg University in Germany.[1]

Clinical Research in Cardiology published the paper on Nov 27, 2022.

Patient profiles

All patients were found dead within the first week following injections with either the Pfizer or Moderna mRNA COVID shots.

Person 1 was found dead 12 h after the vaccination. A witness described a rattling breath shortly before discovering circulatory failure.

Person 2 complained about nausea and was found dead soon thereafter. Resuscitation was started immediately but without success, respectively.

The other persons were found dead at home without available information about terminal symptoms.

Three of the dead were women and two men. The median age at death was 58 years (age range 46–75 years).

Four people died after the first shot. The other two after the second dose.

No blood tests, ECGs, or imaging data were not available. All five patients were already passed when found.

Autopsy Results

Epicarditis and Myocarditis

Severe inflammation of the heart’s outer lining (epicarditis) and heart muscles (myocarditis) was observed. Regarding which, they exclaimed,

During the last 20 years of autopsy service at Heidelberg University Hospital, we did not observe comparable myocardial inflammatory infiltration.

Under the microscope, T-lymphocytes were in between the damaged heart muscles. The lymphocytes were mainly of the CD4+ type that sends signals to other immune cells to come and destroy the antigens they are attached to. 

The authors cited a previous paper that showed that higher percentages of CD4+ cells lead to a greater susceptibility to autoimmune myocarditis.[2]

Professors. Arne Burkhardt and Walter Yang, both pathologists in Reutlingen, Germany, had the same concerning findings in their autopsies of COVID-vaccinated people. Lymphocytic infiltration was found in several organs, including the heart. They termed it “lymphocyte amok.”

No other conditions were found to explain the death

Other possible causes of death, like pulmonary embolism, heart attacks, severe strokes, and cardiomyopathies, were not present in three of the deceased patients.

In Case three, no other cause for the inflammatory infiltration was found, but the infiltrate was small and mainly observed in the fat of the heart’s sack called the pericardium.

During my internal medicine residency, I assisted an outstanding cardiologist, Dr. A. Bonner, during angiograms. The catheter tip sometimes touched the heart muscle and triggered ventricular tachycardia (VT), a potentially fatal arrhythmia. That VT is quickly stopped by the cardiologist coolly pulling the catheter back.

For case three, it is possible that the inflammation of the pericardial fat irritated the heart muscle to cause VT and since the stimulus persisted, so did the VT.

That explains why the causality between the pericardial fat inflammation and death is “possible.”

In case five (see below), small amounts of the Human Herpes 6 (HHV6) may explain an alternative cause of the myocarditis, which is why they labeled “Possible” with regards to causality.

Negative COVID-19 tests in all

To exclude the possibility that the findings are due to SARS-CoV-2, nasopharyngeal swabs were done on all. All came back negative.

Additionally, none of the deceased persons had COVID-19 before vaccination. That rules out the possibility that the findings are from an autoimmune response from a previous infection of SARS-CoV-2.

Study Conclusion

Because of the close temporal association and the absence of other causes, the pathologists concluded that the COVID shots likely caused the (epi-) myocarditis.

In general, a causal link between myocarditis and anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccination is supported by several considerations:

  • (A) a close temporal relation to vaccination; all cases were found dead within one week after vaccination
  • (B) absence of any other significant pre-existing heart disease, especially ischaemic heart disease or cardiomyopathy
  • (C) negative testing for potential myocarditis-causing infectious agents
  • (D) presence of a peculiar CD4 predominant T-cell infiltrate, suggesting an immune mediated mechanism.

The inflamed hearts then suffered an abnormal heart rhythm, also called an arrhythmia, that led to the demise of the five vaccine-injured.

Myocarditis-related acute cardiac arrest due to either asystole or ventricular fibrillation is a well-established pathomechanism in other causes of acute myocarditis as well.

The heart has to contract to pump blood. In asystole, the heart stops beating, and there is no electrical rhythm, and the EKG is flat. Asystole is also called flat-line.

In ventricular fibrillation (VF), the heart jiggles like a jello, and no blood is pumped. Both asystole and VF cause sudden death.

The arrhythmia as a cause of death is consistent with other studies I discussed at

The table below summarizes the five cases.

Source: Schwab, C. et al. Autopsy-based histopathological characterization of myocarditis after anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination.

Causes of mRNA Vaccine Myocarditis

The authors mentioned three mechanisms for myocarditis after the Pfizer and Moderna injections.

The first was mentioned earlier as an autoimmune response, as evidenced by the large numbers of T lymphocytes of the CD4+ type.

The second possibility is molecular mimicry, where the cardiac muscles are attacked by antibodies elicited by the spike protein that mimics human antigens. I have several articles on that topic.

The third reason is the accidental injection into the vein of the COVID jab. Here is why the term “jab” is used for the COVID “vaccines.”

Medical personnel are trained to pull the syringe plunger before injecting a drug or a vaccine. If blood shows up at the base of the needle, the needle tip should be repositioned to prevent intravenous administration.

For the COVID “vaccines,” they were told to just stick or jab the needle in and push the plunger. That means there was no way no know whether the needle tip was inside a small vein.

A study by Li and colleagues showed that acute (rapid onset) myopericarditis could be induced with intravenous injection of an mRNA COVID shot.[3] This may explain the vaxxidents that happen to people who just had their injections.

In one autopsy case, the right side of the heart showed inflammation, raising the possibility of an IV injection.

To explain, the venous system carries blood from the injection site to the right side of the heart. An inflamed right heart suggests that the blood contained a high amount of the mRNA jab.

I will add a fourth mechanism. This is from Dr. Flavio Cadegiani, a Front Line Critical Care Alliance doctor. He hypothesizes that excessive adrenaline, or what he termed a “hypercathecholaminergic,” induces myocarditis. [4]

Parting thoughts

mRNA COVID injections can cause myocarditis and sudden death. The autopsy series may be small, but it is a start.

More studies should be made, but hopefully, readers will learn from this article, so they are not the subject of future autopsies.

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References:

  1. Schwab, C., Domke, L.M., Hartmann, L. et al. Autopsy-based histopathological characterization of myocarditis after anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination. Clin Res Cardiol (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-022-02129-5
  2. Chen P, Baldeviano GC, Ligons DL, Talor MV, Barin JG, Rose NR, et al. (2012) Susceptibility to autoimmune myocarditis is associated with intrinsic differences in CD4(+) T cells. Clin Exp Immunol 169(2):79–88
  3. Li C, Chen Y, Zhao Y, Lung DC, Ye Z, Song W, Liu FF, Cai JP, Wong WM, Yip CC, Chan JF, To KK, Sridhar S, Hung IF, Chu H, Kok KH, Jin DY, Zhang AJ, Yuen KY. Intravenous Injection of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) mRNA Vaccine Can Induce Acute Myopericarditis in Mouse Model. Clin Infect Dis. 2022 Jun 10;74(11):1933-1950. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciab707. Erratum in: Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Dec 16;73(12):2372-2373. PMID: 34406358; PMCID: PMC8436386.
  4. Cadegiani FA. Catecholamines Are the Key Trigger of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine-Induced Myocarditis: A Compelling Hypothesis Supported by Epidemiological, Anatomopathological, Molecular, and Physiological Findings. Cureus. 2022 Aug 11;14(8):e27883. doi: 10.7759/cureus.27883. PMID: 35971401; PMCID: PMC9372380.

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