They have written an open letter to the health ministry and the National Security Council (MKN) to voice concerns highlighted by researchers from Oxford University.
According to the study published on Dec 14 last year, there is a “causal relationship” between mRNA vaccines and myocarditis as well as pericarditis.
Myocarditis is the inflammation of the heart muscle, while pericarditis is the inflammation of the pericardium – the membrane enclosing the heart.
When contacted, Dr Amir Farid Isahak, one of those who signed the open letter, said myocarditis and pericarditis could lead to chest pains, trigger heart attacks and cause death.
Farid said according to the study, the myocarditis risk in young males was higher from mRNA vaccines than from Covid-19 infection.
He also said the actual number of cases of vaccinated individuals suffering from myocarditis and pericarditis was a “lot higher” than what was reported.
And this, said Farid, was what the group of doctors was trying to impress on the government.
Farid claimed that it was “common knowledge” even among those pushing vaccines that it could lead to myocarditis and pericarditis.
“If the risks outweigh the benefits, there is a need to review the push for vaccines. And there is no need to talk theory as the statistics are there,” he told FMT, referring to the study.
The open letter is signed, among others by Dr Manimalar Selvi Naicker, Dr Adlina Sulieman and Dr Hartati Suhaimi.
However, another group, comprising three doctors, argues that the clinical course of post mRNA vaccine-associated myocarditis is “mild”, with a survival rate in excess of 99%.
“More than 90% of the patients recover their cardiac function within a few weeks of the injury,” paediatrician Dr Musa Mohd Nordin, paediatric cardiologist Dr Zulkifli Ismail and public health physician assistant professor Mohammad Farhan Rusli said in a joint statement.
Young males infected with Covid-19, they said, were six times more likely to develop myocarditis compared with those who had received the mRNA vaccine.
“Evidence-based risk benefit assessment shows that the mRNA vaccines are overwhelmingly favourable and safer compared with Covid-19 acquired myocarditis and should continue to be recommended.”
They went on to hit out at the “preposterous allegations” and anti-vaccine nuances of the open letter to the health ministry, adding it was reminiscent of claims in the past that MMR vaccines caused autism.
“We must follow the science and not present data in snippets to further push an extremely dangerous agenda.”
CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST DATA ON THE COVID-19 SITUATION IN MALAYSIA