The Defense Department is reviewing 14 cases of heart inflammation or myocarditis among people who were fully vaccinated in the military’s health department, according to Military.com.
- The 14 cases came from people who received the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.
- Similarly, Israel has found a possible link among fully vaccinated people, according to the Jerusalem Post.
But Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the CDC, said the agency hasn’t found a link between heart inflammation and the COVID-19 vaccine, per Reuters.
- “We have not seen a signal and we’ve actually looked intentionally for the signal in the over 200 million doses we’ve given,” Walensky said, according to Reuters.
- She said the CDC is working with the Department of Defense to review those aforementioned cases.
Similarly, the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) didn’t see any link between the vaccine and heart inflammation, according to Reuters.
Vaccine side effects
Questions about how the COVID-19 vaccine affects people have been raised since it was first introduced. These questions reached a breaking point recently when the CDC decided to put a pause on the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine due to rare reports of blood clots among women. The CDC later ended the pause, allowing the vaccine to be released again.
People who get the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine were found to report more side effects than people who got other vaccines, as I wrote for the Deseret News.