COVID-19 Vaccines Linked to Heart Issue in Teens and Young Adults
The CDC [is] finding 16 to 25 year olds who received the Pfizer or Moderna [COVID-19] vaccine have experienced higher than normal cases of myocarditis—an inflammation of the heart muscle. Myocarditis symptoms can include fever and fatigue, shortness of breath and chest pain. The CDC said the higher rate of cases occurred especially among young […]
Probable Link Found Between Pfizer’s COVID Shot and Heart Inflammation
On June 2, 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Health announced that it believes there is a “probable link” between Pfizer/BioNTech’s experimental messenger RNA (mRNA) BNT162b2 biologic for COVID-19 and dozens of cases of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) in Israel—mostly in males between 16-30 years of age. According to an epidemiological study undertaken by a […]
CDC Investigating Cases of Heart Inflammation After COVID-19 Vaccination
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has begun an investigation into reports of myocarditis (heart inflammation) in people between 16 and 45 years of age after receiving either the genetically engineered experimental messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 biologics for COVID-19 developed by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious […]
Israel Studying Possible Link Between Heart Inflammation and Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 Shot
The Israeli Health Ministry is evaluating cases of heart inflammation in people in Israel who have received Pfizer/BioNTech’s experimental messenger RNA (mRNA) BNT162b2 vaccine for COVID-19. In a preliminary study, led by Dror Mevorach, MD head of one of the COVID-19 units at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in Jerusalem, 62 cases of myocarditis—inflammation of the […]
