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Cardiology update: Should mRNA vaccine myocarditis be a contraindication to future COVID-19 vaccinations ?

Dr. Anish Koka

The case reports Case 1 involves a 26 year old man who developed pericarditis after the Pfizer vaccine. Pericarditis, an inflammation of the sac the heart lives in, developed about 7 days after the Pfizer vaccine. The diagnosis was made based on classic findings of inflammation on an electrocardiogram associated with acute chest pain.

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A COVID19 vaccine exemption letter

Dr. Anish Koka

4 An accompanying editorial 5 notes “Data from COVID-Heart provide reassuring evidence that myocarditis, once predicted to be an emerging public health crisis attributable to COVID-19, is relatively uncommon even among hospitalized patients and is less virulent than predicted during the early days of the pandemic.