Eleven years ago, a Wired Science blogger estimated the fraction of people who are public figures. The high estimate was 410 public figures per million persons. Using this estimate along with a midpoint estimate (between the lowest and highest), along with background U.S. rates of myocarditis, 3 U.S. public figures a year get myocarditis:
But recently, Dr. Peter McCullough listed names of public figures stricken with serious adverse events after taking COVID shots. While the only myocarditis case that the good doctor mentioned was a death and not American (Dominican Basketball Player, Oscar Cabrera-Adames), we should watch the ~100,000 public figures alive in the U.S.
If more than 3 cases of myocarditis are found in U.S. public figures in a year, it could represent a safety signal.
Reference
[yearly myocarditis incidence is up to 2.16 per 100,000 person-years] — Gubernot D, Jazwa A, Niu M, Baumblatt J, Gee J, Moro P, Duffy J, Harrington T, McNeil MM, Broder K, Su J, Kamidani S, Olson CK, Panagiotakopoulos L, Shimabukuro T, Forshee R, Anderson S, Bennett S. U.S. Population-Based background incidence rates of medical conditions for use in safety assessment of COVID-19 vaccines. Vaccine. 2021 Jun 23;39(28):3666-3677. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.05.016. Epub 2021 May 14. PMID: 34088506; PMCID: PMC8118666. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8118666/