A recent study published last month found that the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines may cause myocarditis in young adults in as little as one week following vaccination.
Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart, usually caused by viruses, drug reactions, and general inflammatory conditions.
The study found that males between the ages of 18 and 24 years who received the Moderna vaccine were 44 times more likely to develop myocarditis.
For those who received the Pfizer vaccine, cases of myocarditis were 13 times higher.
The study’s publication follows the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) recommendation that children as young as 6 months be vaccinated with either the Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination, as reported in The Dallas Express.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) acknowledged in June that the Moderna vaccine is likely to “pose a higher risk of [cardiac] inflammation” in people of a certain age group than those who got the Pfizer vaccine.
Since the vaccines were rolled out, almost 77 million people in the U.S. have received at least two doses of the Moderna vaccine.
The CDC stated further that the findings on pericarditis and myocarditis, the kinds of heart inflammation that are apparently linked to both vaccines, “were not consistent across each of the U.S. vaccine safety monitoring systems.”
Dr. Sanjay Verma, a cardiologist, told The Epoch Times, “Knowing the spike protein’s affinity to ACE2 receptors in the heart and spike protein’s injury to cardiomyocytes (cells of the heart), the association of myocarditis with SARS-CoV2 virus or spike protein-based mRNA vaccination was not entirely unexpected. Thus far, CDC has not adjusted its COVID-19 morbidity and mortality data accordingly.”
According to data provided by the Vaccine Safety Datalink system, heart inflammation occurred in 97.3 cases for every million doses of the Moderna vaccine “given to males of ages 18-39.”
The Pfizer vaccine clocked 81.7 cases per million.
For both vaccines, the inflammation mostly occurred within one week of the second dose.
The CDC states that most people who suffer from myocarditis as a result of getting vaccinated with the mRNA COVID-19 shot will “heal.” Symptoms include shortness of breath, chest pains, fatigue, and heart palpitations.
