Health advisers in Israel say they’ve found a possible link between a “small number of heart inflammation” cases in mostly young men who have taken the Pfizer COVID vaccine.
So far, Israel has counted 275 cases of the inflammation, aka myocarditis, between December 2020 and May 2021. Three teams of experts looked at the data and concluded that “there is a probable link between receiving the second dose (of Pfizer) vaccine and the appearance of myocarditis among men aged 16 to 30.”
Pfizer, on the other hand, responded that it had “not observed a higher rate of the condition … than would normally be expected in the general population.” The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also said they had not seen any more cases than would be expected, but would ask health care providers to be aware of the reports.
SOURCE: Reuters June 2, 2021