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Children who didn't need Covid vaccination will now pay the price in heart problems

FDA Detects Serious Safety Signal for COVID-19 Vaccination Among Children

Zachary Stieber
May 25, 2023Updated: May 26, 2023
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Children of certain ages who received Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine face an elevated risk of heart inflammation, according to a new federally funded study.

Vaccinated children aged 12 to 17 face a heightened risk of myocarditis, a form of heart inflammation, and a related condition called pericarditis, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) researchers found.

The number of myocarditis and pericarditis events in that age group met the threshold for a safety signal, the researchers reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association on May 22.

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