June 14, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The vaccine advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will convene an emergency meeting this week about heart-related side effects possibly linked to COVID-19 vaccines.
The meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), scheduled for June 18, will address reports of heart inflammation in young men who received a second dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, the Epoch Times reported.
The CDC announced the emergency meeting last week, following reports of an unexpectedly high number of heart inflammation cases tracked by vaccine safety monitoring systems. The announcement comes two weeks after Israel’s Health Ministry said that such side effects were probably connected to vaccination.
In a meeting on Thursday, the CDC admitted that hundreds of reports of rare heart conditions, myocarditis or pericarditis, have been submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), an injury tracking system run by the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
226 cases among people younger than 30 may fit the agency’s working definition of post-vaccine heart inflammation, CDC deputy director Dr. Tom Shimabukuro acknowledged on Thursday. Though most patients have recovered, 41 continue to experience symptoms, 15 remain in the
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