{"id":52367,"date":"2021-06-29T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/what-do-we-know-about-the-relation-between-protein-s-and-myocarditis-cases-in-young-people-vaccinated-with-pfizer\/"},"modified":"2023-11-01T08:09:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T08:09:33","slug":"what-do-we-know-about-the-relation-between-protein-s-and-myocarditis-cases-in-young-people-vaccinated-with-pfizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/en\/what-do-we-know-about-the-relation-between-protein-s-and-myocarditis-cases-in-young-people-vaccinated-with-pfizer\/","title":{"rendered":"What do we know about the relation between S protein and myocarditis cases in young people vaccinated with Pfizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"article-social\">\n      <div class=\"fc-social\">\n        <div class=\"menu-social\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=What do we know about the relation between S protein and myocarditis cases in young people vaccinated with Pfizer&amp;url=https:\/\/verificat.cat\/fact-check\/what-do-we-know-about-the-relation-between-protein-s-and-myocarditis-cases-in-young-people-vaccinated-with-pfizer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/twitter@2x.png\" alt=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\"  height=\"24\">\n          <\/a>\n          <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dialog\/share?app_id=2321917788023696&amp;href=https:\/\/verificat.cat\/fact-check\/what-do-we-know-about-the-relation-between-protein-s-and-myocarditis-cases-in-young-people-vaccinated-with-pfizer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/facebook@2x.png\" alt=\"facebook\"  height=\"24\">\n          <\/a>\n          <a class=\"mobiletablet\" href=\"whatsapp:\/\/send?text=https:\/\/verificat.cat\/fact-check\/What do we know about the relation between S protein and myocarditis cases in young people vaccinated with Pfizer\" data-action=\"share\/whatsapp\/share\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/whatsapp@2x.png\" alt=\"whatsapp\"  height=\"24\">\n          <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/wp-content\/themes\/atomic-blocks\/images\/img_post_verificat.png\" alt=\"Verificat\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In an interview on the Stew Peters programme, a self-identified &quot;health economist&quot;, Jane Ruby, has claimed that the cases of myocarditis detected in some young people after receiving the Pfizer vaccine are linked to the protein S that is generated after the vaccine, and that this in turn &quot;competes directly with the ACE2 receptor, which is cardioprotective&quot;, which is why these elements are linked. It is DECEITFUL. Protein S could be behind the myocarditis events, but not due to the interaction with the ACE2 receptor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"yellow\">\n<p>&quot;The CDC and the FDA already knew in December 2020 that protein S was responsible for heart damage. This directly competes with the ACE2 receptor, which is a cardioprotector.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Several international organisations, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), have confirmed the occurrence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/fact-check\/es-la-proteina-spike-una-toxina-cat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some myocarditis events<\/a> &mdash;inflammation of the heart produced by the immune system as a response to a viral infection&mdash; in young people who have received the mRNA vaccine, but for the moment they are punctual and with mild symptomatology. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/acip\/work-groups-vast\/report-2021-05-17.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fvaccines%2Facip%2Fwork-groups-vast%2Ftechnical-report-2021-05-17.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A follow-up is currently being developed<\/a> to rule out whether or not the vaccine is the source.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible that the <em>Spike <\/em>protein is involved in cases of myocarditis: &quot;There may obviously be some link,&quot; Alberto Garc&iacute;a Lled&oacute;, spokesman for the Spanish Society of Cardiology (SEC, in Spanish), told Verificat. Basically, what we are doing is<em> hyperstimulating<\/em> the immune system with a vaccine, so it is possible that there could be autoimmune responses, that is, that the immune system, which should only destroy viruses or bacteria, does some collateral harm to the body. That&#039;s what myocarditis is,&quot; he concludes.<\/p>\n<h3>The ACE2 receptor is not involved<\/h3>\n<p>However, what has been totally ruled out by the scientists is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fcimb.2020.00317\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the ACE2 receptor<\/a> (a human protein key in the production of angiotensins, a molecule that controls blood pressure and is expressed in the lungs, heart, kidney, and intestines and whose absence cause cardiovascular diseases), is involved in this inflammation.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Although there may be a link between the immune response generated by the vaccine and myocarditis, the angiotensin-2 receptor (ACE2) has nothing to do with it,&quot; he says. &quot;Vaccines produce antibodies against protein S, not against the ACE receptor. In other words, they attack the key and not the lock,&quot; he concludes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/wpallimport\/files\/img\/blog\/ACE2-EN.png\" style=\"width: 100%;height: auto\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S protein could be behind the myocarditis events, but not due to the interaction with the ACE2 receptor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[201,216,196,218],"tags":[208],"class_list":{"0":"post-52367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-covid-19-vaccines","7":"category-salut-vaccines-en","8":"category-vaccines","9":"category-vacunes-vaccines-en","10":"tag-vaccines-en","12":"without-featured-image"},"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":201,"label":"Covid-19"},{"value":216,"label":"Salut"},{"value":196,"label":"Vaccines"},{"value":218,"label":"Vacunes"}],"post_tag":[{"value":208,"label":"Vaccines"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Marc","author_link":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/en\/author\/marc\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":201,"name":"Covid-19","slug":"covid-19-vaccines","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":201,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":196,"count":35,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":201,"category_count":35,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Covid-19","category_nicename":"covid-19-vaccines","category_parent":196},{"term_id":216,"name":"Salut","slug":"salut-vaccines-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":216,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":197,"count":166,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":216,"category_count":166,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Salut","category_nicename":"salut-vaccines-en","category_parent":197},{"term_id":196,"name":"Vaccines","slug":"vaccines","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":196,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":50,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":196,"category_count":50,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Vaccines","category_nicename":"vaccines","category_parent":0},{"term_id":218,"name":"Vacunes","slug":"vacunes-vaccines-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":218,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":197,"count":146,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":218,"category_count":146,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Vacunes","category_nicename":"vacunes-vaccines-en","category_parent":197}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":208,"name":"Vaccines","slug":"vaccines-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":208,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":180,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}