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JohnSJ

(92,422 posts)
Thu Jun 10, 2021, 10:13 AM Jun 2021

A link between Covid-19 vaccination and a cardiac illness may be getting clearer

(CNN)Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say there has been a higher-than-expected number of cases of a heart ailment among young people, most often males, who've recently received their second doses of the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines. The CDC says the reports of the ailment are "rare" and that "most patients who received care responded well to medicine and rest and quickly felt better."

The advisers' statement, posted June 1 on the CDC website, strikes a different note from their statement about two weeks earlier, which said that the rates of myocarditis -- inflammation of the heart muscle -- were not higher among vaccinated people than among unvaccinated people. 
The new report comes as the Israeli Ministry of Health finds a "likelihood of a link" between the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine and myocarditis, most commonly among males ages 16 to 30.
The June 1 report by a work group of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices states that within 30 days of receiving the second dose of either Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, "there was a higher number of observed than expected myocarditis/pericarditis cases in 16-24-year-olds."

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The CDC says on its website that benefits of Covid-19 vaccination outweigh the known and potential risks "including the risk of myocarditis or pericarditis," which is swelling of the tissue around the heart. The agency says it is "actively monitoring these reports, by reviewing data and medical records, to learn more about what happened and to see if there is any relationship to COVID-19 vaccination."


https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/09/health/myocarditis-covid-vaccination-link-clearer/index.html


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A link between Covid-19 vaccination and a cardiac illness may be getting clearer (Original Post) JohnSJ Jun 2021 OP
Something to watch, but not panic over... Wounded Bear Jun 2021 #1
It won't just be the RW echo chamber. Anti-vaxers will jump all over this, without any context, JohnSJ Jun 2021 #2
Are you saying that anti-vaxxers and RWers are two different groups? Wounded Bear Jun 2021 #6
Robert Kennedy Jr., Naomi Wolf, Jill Stein are just a few examples JohnSJ Jun 2021 #7
Yeah but there's also Turbineguy Jun 2021 #3
Hillary Clinton's emails Danmark Jun 2021 #4
My guess is that the odds of getting COVID-19 and developing myocarditis from that are higher. Bleacher Creature Jun 2021 #5

JohnSJ

(92,422 posts)
2. It won't just be the RW echo chamber. Anti-vaxers will jump all over this, without any context,
Thu Jun 10, 2021, 10:25 AM
Jun 2021

and the actual risk verses reward


Bleacher Creature

(11,257 posts)
5. My guess is that the odds of getting COVID-19 and developing myocarditis from that are higher.
Thu Jun 10, 2021, 10:37 AM
Jun 2021

In which case getting the vaccine remains the better bet.

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