Stewart McSweyn DNF - still having serious breathing issues after getting Covid

I also know someone who had horrible side effects for a similar time frame, 7 months. His running suffered a major blow. He was a Trials qualifier and then had trouble running at all. Also he still got covid in December, so his problems before that were definitely not due to covid. Thankfully he's getting better recently.

Everyone who had a crappy running season last year will blame it on either getting Covid or the vaccine. Prior to Covid, it was a toxic fellow athlete environment. Prior to that, it was poor coaching. Prior to that it was the flu. Prior to that it was crappy sleep. Sorry folks, sometimes running just doesn't click and there is no reason at all. And yes, the side effects for me sucked as well for #2, so I get it, but too many people are making some pretty big jumps to conclusions.

He was fine until his recent booster. He had Covid in December and was okay until his recent booster. Figure it out.

He was NOT fine until he had the booster. The truth still matters so because you need to lie for your agenda you are WEAK.

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He certainly was.

transient heart issues.

Low risk

It's not just because of the wind, he pulled out of World Indoors too

n=1 but I definitely noticed a drop off in fitness for about 6 week post-booster shot. It ended up being temporary, as at the end of that 6 week stretch I did have one of my best races in years, but things were pretty rough in the build up to it. I was fine at slower paces, but anything approaching race pace felt much harder than it should have, and I had to pull the plug on multiple workouts in a row. As my training and workouts had been extremely consistent for several months both before and after this stretch, it seems like the most probable explanation for my struggles during that timeframe.

But, as I said, it was temporary (and quite short lived in the scheme of things), and I have zero regrets about getting the booster. No way to know if I would have similar effects from the first dose of vaccine early last year as I was dealing with a hip injury at the time, and didn't run for several weeks after receiving the shots.

According to his coach, you're totally wrong.

Who should we believe?

It's so interesting to me that it's apparently either "the vaccines are 100% shut up you stupid anti-vaxxer", or "COVID isn't real, dumb sheeple, and the vaccine will kill us all". The situation is obviously very nuanced and not as simple as either extreme. Personally, I don't know a single young, healthy person who has either gotten very sick for a long time from COVID, or any young, healthy people who have died or gotten ill from the vaccine either. What isn't really in controversy, though, is that hundreds of thousands have died of COVID and that the vaccine has unpleasant and potentially dangerous side effects. Bottom line is that it's really difficult to know the prudent way to keep oneself healthy and safe as a young, otherwise healthy person, and people need to do the best they can with the information they have.

Also, poor McSweyn. Hope he gets better.

None of this applies to me, sure I’m a recreational runner but I had been running fine for the year leading up to the second dose. See my prior post as reference too, it was not sickness/lack of sleep/nutrients I got my doctors to throw the book at me in terms of testing. It wasn’t overnight but around 2 weeks after I went from doing my easy runs at ~7:00 pace to being doubled over at like 9:30 pace after 2 miles. I have it all documented in my running log. I’m not an antivaxer I got the shot, but I wish I would’ve been more informed about the side effects. Sure there could have been something else that caused this but seems like an awful coincidence, thankfully I’m starting to get fitness back months later

Yeah, it's nuanced. McSweyn isn't "lucky" to still be alive after having covid. It's expected that he would only have mild illness from covid--it would be unlucky if he was hospitalized or killed by it, from a statistical perspective.

At the same time, the booster probably didn't give him myocarditis or perocarditis. If that were the case, how would he have been able to run at all?

He went through 4k at just over 10:40. Sure, that's slightly behind PR pace for him, but still pretty dang fast and surely a significant effort for him. Not to mention, he was running solo and in wind. Even in ideal health, those are tough conditions to run a world class 5k time. He would have had to close his last 1k in close to 2:30 to hit the standard, and he maybe realized he didn't have it in him. That could be a result of less than 100% health, but long covid or a vaccine injury would have kept him off the start line altogether.

What you're describing is called nuance, and it's something that the rabid hordes of LRC posters unfortunately lack, much like its co-founders.

no surprise...

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You're deluded. Take a look at the Pfizer trial report docs that have just been released and wake up.