Real-world data from Israel linked Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to an elevated risk of heart inflammation, researchers said this week. Israeli scientists found that vaccination likely caused myocarditis, or heart inflammation, in one to five people per 100,000 who wouldn’t have otherwise suffered the condition. However, they also said that getting COVID-19 was linked to a higher risk—with 11 inflammation events out of 100 attributed to the disease. Most of the heart inflammation cases post-vaccination were in young males. The 21 people who had myocarditis in the vaccinated group had a median age of 25, and 90.9 percent were men. “We estimated that the BNT162b2 vaccine resulted in an increased incidence of a few adverse events over a 42-day follow-up period. Although most of these events were mild, some of them, such as myocarditis, could be potentially serious,” they said, referring to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. “However, our results indicate that SARS-CoV-2 …
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