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Pfizer, Moderna Jabs Cause Heart Inflammation In Some Young Men, CDC Finds
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cdc-heart-inflammation-cases-ages-16-24-higher-than-expected-after-mrna-covid-19-2021-06-10/

As American public health officials and political leaders struggle to
entice more young adults to accept the COVID-19 vaccine, researchers
have just discovered a disturbing side effect of the Pfizer and
Moderna jabs, which rely on new mRNA technology to program the body to
fight the virus. While the adenovirus-vector jabs like the AstraZeneca
shot have been tied to dozens of fatal cerebral blood clots, the mRNA
vaccines have now been found to cause heart inflammation in some
patients.

We first caught wind of this late last week when the CDC announced it
would hold an "emergency meeting" about the rising number of heart
inflammation cases in the US VAERs database.

    YOU STUPID, STUPID STUPIDS.

    This was so predictable. pic.twitter.com/oHKFgR9vF4
    — Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) June 10, 2021

According to Reuters, the CDC started investigating after Israel's
Health Ministry reported that it had discovered a likely link to the
condition in young men who received the Pfizer jab. Although some
patients were hospitalized, most recovered on their own and (most
importantly) nobody died.

The CDC told Reuters that it's still assessing the risk from the
condition and has not yet concluded that there was a causal
relationship between the vaccines and cases of myocarditis or
pericarditis. Still, there are some lingering signs that the potential
side effects from the vaccines is higher for young people. More than
50% of the cases reported to the US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting
System - better known as VAERS - after people had received their
second dose of the jab were in people between the ages of 12 and 24,
the CDC said. Those age groups accounted for under 9% of doses
administered.

    "We clearly have an imbalance there," said Dr. Tom Shimabukuro,
deputy director of the CDC's Immunization Safety Office, during a
presentation to an advisory committee to the agency on Thursday. The
bulk of these cases have emerged within a week of vaccination.
Shimabukuro added that doctors saw a "preponderance" of young white
men. This contrasts with the AstraZeneca brain clots, which
overwhelmingly afflicted women. Just under 80% of all of these cases
were found in men.

Scientists knew something was wrong because, according to VAERS, there
were 283 observed cases of heart inflammation after the second vaccine
dose in patients aged 16 to 24. That's compared with an expectations
of 10-to-102 cases tally for that age group based on demographic data.

Another database, the Vaccine Safety Datalink, also showed a jump in
incidents of heart inflammation in younger men after their second shot
when compared to the rate seen after jab 1.

Meanwhile, Pfizer said it supports the CDC's assessment of the heart
inflammation cases, noting that "the number of reports is small given
the number of doses administered." Already 130MM Americans have
already received both of the Pfizer, or both of the Moderna, jabs.
Moderna spokespeople cautioned that consumers shouldn't jump to
conclusions before scientists have had time to further study this
issue. At this point, health authorities officially consider both
vaccines to be "safe" for public use. Moderna also claimed that
researchers hadn't established a "causal" relationship between the
jabs and the heart complications.

OF course, it's just the latest reminder of the drawbacks when
authorities take short cuts to approve vaccines.