Public Health Ontario (PHO) in Canada recently released report, Myocarditis and Pericarditis Following Vaccination with COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines in Ontario: December 13, 2020 to August 7, 2021, which found that the majority of COVID-19 vaccine recipients who went to the hospital for heart inflammation after the novel vaccine were young people.1
Adolescents and young adults who had received a COVID-19 vaccine made up more than half of the cases of myocarditis, which is inflammation of the heart muscle,1 and pericarditis, which is inflammation of the lining of the heart, that resulted in a hospital visit. Symptoms of myocarditis and pericarditis include feeling short of breath, chest pain, fluttering or a pounding heart and malaise.2 3
Of the 204 reports4 (narrowed down from 314) 31 cases of heart inflammation occurred in children between the ages of 12-17, and 75 cases were in young adults 18-24 years of age. Boys were affected the most by the vaccine with 80 percent of the cases presenting in males5 and 69.6 percent occurring after the second shot.4 Young men aged 18-24 had the highest rates of heart problems post vaccination with a reporting rate of 37.4 per million doses following a second dose of Pfizer/BioNTech’s experimental COVID biologic BNT162b2 and 262.2 per million doses following Moderna/NIAID’s experimental COVID biologic mRNA-1273.4
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