Actually, in his study, Borges only found a statistically significant link between SCD and Covid-19 infection with no statistically significant link determined for vaccination. Not quite the confirmation Slay News is touting.
Impact of COVID-19 and Vaccination on SCD Risk: Five studies investigated the potential impact of COVID-19 on SCD risk in pilots. The pooled analysis showed that pilots who had been infected with COVID-19 had a 1.8 times higher risk of SCD compared to those who had not been infected (RR: 1.8, 95% CI: 1.3-2.5) (16). Three studies examined the association between COVID-19 vaccination and the risk of myocarditis, a condition linked to SCD. The pooled analysis found no significant increase in the risk of myocarditis among vaccinated pilots compared to unvaccinated pilots (RR: 1.2, 95% CI: 0.8-1.8), suggesting insufficient evidence to draw conclusions about this association (17) (Figure 2)
