The findings of a small French study may be reassuring to those with histories of the heart condition who are reluctant to get vaccinated, experts said.
A health care worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a pop-up vaccination site at Hammons Field in Springfield, Mo., on Aug. 3.The Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine appears to be safe in people previously diagnosed with myocarditis, according to a small study presented Thursday at a European medical conference.
Researchers from France studied 55 patients, most of them young men, who had been hospitalized with myocarditis within the last five years and were later inoculated with a Covid-19 vaccine. The results may be reassuring to those with a history of myocarditis who are reluctant to get vaccinated. In February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended people over the age of 12 and young men
She noted that the risk of severe complications from Covid is much greater than the risk of vaccine-induced myocarditis., which highlights this is something that is not benign in some children," Poehling said.
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