Myocarditis on the Joe Rogan Experience
6 fact-checked claims across 4 episodes · Oct 2021 to Jun 2025 · updated Jul 18, 2026
Each is a receipt: the exact quote, its timestamp, what published evidence says, and who benefits.
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- Joe Rogan (2)
- Peter McCullough (2)
- Robert Malone (2)
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“are four to six times more likely to be diagnosed with vaccine-related myocarditis than ending up in the hospital with COVID.”
Rogan cites a study/headline claiming boys 12-15 are 4-6 times more likely to get vaccine-related myocarditis than to be hospitalized with COVID.
“And that's the athletes, sudden death in athletes. So it used to be 29 per year, now it's 290 per year, growth 10 times.”
Rogan claims sudden death in athletes rose from 29 per year to 290 per year, a tenfold increase.
“this figure one from the Tshope paper, 27% never deviated from normal heart function.”
McCullough applies a 13% permanent-impairment rate from a pre-COVID pediatric myocarditis study to predict that 13% of vaccine-associated myocarditis cases in kids will develop permanent heart damage or failure.
“13,000 certified cases of myocarditis, pericarditis, that number should be no more than 600 on a background rate.”
McCullough claims that as of the taping, there were 13,000 CDC-certified cases of vaccine-associated myocarditis/pericarditis compared to an expected background rate of no more than roughly 600-800 cases per year.
“Incidence rate is 1 in 2,700. Now, there's all kinds of hand-waving that, oh, myocarditis is mild, and they recover from it, okay? Those statements aren't, let…”
Malone claims the historic death rate following myocarditis is about 27%, implying post-vaccination myocarditis in boys carries similarly high mortality risk.
“The number that keeps getting cited is one in a thousand people have adverse events, including myocarditis. If myocarditis that requires hospitalization is one…”
Malone states that myocarditis requiring hospitalization after COVID vaccination occurs in about 1 in 2,700 boys.