The worst sort of "elephant in the room" journalism -- everything is to blame, but that obvious thing that everyone took leading to an enormous, never-seen-before statistical anomaly. But it's not that thing. We're sure.
I presume you mean the pandemic? I've had a similar complaint on a lot of analysis lately. People are looking to blame a ton of the previous few years trends in terms of anything but that. It is very weird.
The study in the article tracks young adults from 2000 to 2016 and was published in 2019. It entirely predates the existence of COVID-19 vaccines. Please stick with facts instead of what you 'feel' is true.
Are you attributing the decade-long annual 2% increase in heart attacks among young people to the COVID vaccine?
> A study of more than 2,000 young adults admitted for heart attack between 2000 and 2016 in two U.S. hospitals found that 1 in 5 were 40 years old or younger—and that the proportion of this group has been increasing by 2 percent each year for the last decade.
But anyway, yes COVID itself is also a potential culprit and yeah, the vaccines also should be monitored closely. In fact both are analyzed every day for this type of signal. Please publish a paper if you found some (not gleaned from the vibes around popular news articles).
