Story at a glance
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating reports that young adults and adolescents who received COVID-19 vaccines experienced heart inflammation after their second doses.
- The small number of myocarditis cases have occurred primarily in adolescent or young adult males after their second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
- “Within CDC safety monitoring systems, rates of myocarditis reports in the window following COVID-19 vaccination have not differed from expected baseline rates,” the CDC report states.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating reports that young adults and adolescents who received COVID-19 vaccines experienced heart inflammation after their second doses.
The agency’s Vaccine Safety Technical (VaST) Work Group said in its May 17 report that a small number of myocarditis cases have occurred primarily in adolescent or young adult males after their second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Cases typically occur within four days of the dose, according to the report.
“Within CDC safety monitoring systems, rates of myocarditis reports in the window following COVID-19 vaccination have not differed from expected baseline rates,” said the agency in the report. “However, VaST members felt that information about reports of myocarditis should be communicated to providers.”
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CORONAVIRUS RIGHT NOW
FAUCI BOMBSHELL: ‘NOT CONVINCED’ COVID-19 DEVELOPED NATURALLY OUTSIDE WUHAN LAB
IF I’M VACCINATED, WHY SHOULD I CARE IF UNVACCINATED PEOPLE DON’T WEAR MASKS?
TEXAS REPORTS ZERO COVID-19 DEATHS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OVER A YEAR
THE COVID-19 VARIANT FIRST IDENTIFIED IN INDIA HAS BEEN FOUND IN THE US
RARE ‘BLACK FUNGUS’ INCREASINGLY FOUND IN COVID-19 PATIENTS IN INDIA
Celine Gounder, an infectious disease specialist at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York told The New York Times that it may be “coincidence that some people are developing myocarditis after vaccination.”
“It’s more likely for something like that to happen by chance, because so many people are getting vaccinated right now,” Gounder said.
Our country is in a historic fight against the Coronavirus. Add Changing America to your Facebook or Twitter feed to stay on top of the news.
Meanwhile, Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told Reuters that vaccines can cause the inflammation and that it’s important for researchers to look for a link between the COVID-19 vaccines and the new cases. But vaccine benefits outstrip the risk, according to Adalja.
“Vaccines are going to unequivocally be much more beneficial outweighing this very low, if conclusively established, risk,” Adalja told Reuters.
VaST maintained that “cases appear to be mild,” and follow-up is “on-going.”
READ MORE STORIES FROM CHANGING AMERICA
HOW THE CORONAVIRUS HAS IMPACTED THE OIL INDUSTRY – AND THE FUTURE OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS
REPORTS OF DOLPHINS AND SWANS IN VENICE CANALS GO VIRAL DURING CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
CORONAVIRUS SHOULD BE A WAKE UP CALL ABOUT OUR TREATMENT OF THE ANIMAL WORLD
THE EFFECT OF CORONAVIRUS IS SO EXTREME YOU CAN SEE IT FROM SPACE
CORONAVIRUS SHOULD BE A WARNING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Changing america
