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The hard part about vaccines is that you have to convince people to get them when they are healthy. Reports of side effects shake people’s confidence. That’s why many parents are worried about vaccinating their children after hearing about a link between the Pfizer vaccine and myocarditis in young men. What most news reports failed to mention, though, is how rare and mild these cases actually were.
Myocarditis literally means inflammation of the heart muscle. It is not a common condition, nor is it rare. In any given year, there are four to six cases per 100,000 people. It can be caused by many different things, but it is often due to a viral infection that causes swelling and inflammation of the heart. Most cases resolve and heart function often returns to normal. A small number of people are left with long-term cardiac dysfunction.
The DoD has been tracking myocarditis cases since March, according to spokesman Peter Graves.
Of the 14 cases, one patient, who tested positive for COVID-19 three months ago, developed myocarditis after their first dose of vaccine. The remaining 13 patients developed myocarditis after their second vaccine doses. Eleven received the Moderna vaccine; three got Pfizer.
Military.com reporter Steve Beynon, 30, a member of the Washington, D.C., National Guard, is among the 14 military patients who developed myocarditis after his second dose of the Moderna vaccine. He was hospitalized at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in February and spent nearly three days in the ICU, but returned to work and has since performed his National Guard duties.
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Kassidi Kurill, a 39-year-old from Ogden, Utah, died on February 5
Her family, who are still awaiting results of her autopsy, believe her death may have been linked to the COVID-19 vaccine she received four days earlier
The family said the mother-of-one had no known health issues
But Dr Erik Christensen, chief medical examiner for the Utah Department of Health, said Kurill s death was only temporally related to the vaccine We don t have any evidence that there are connections between the vaccines and deaths at this point, Christensen said
He said an autopsy, which the family are still waiting on, can potentially reveal an undiagnosed condition that may have caused the death
Medical Examiner: No certified COVID-19 vaccine-related deaths in Utah
Medical Examiner: No certified COVID-19 vaccine-related deaths in Utah
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SALT LAKE CITY â The family of a woman who died after receiving her second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine believes there might be a connection to the vaccine itself.
âSo, she got the first one and there was a little pain and there was no big deal so three weeks later, she scheduled for the second one,â said Al Hawley regarding the passing of his step-daughter Kassidi Kurill. âShe takes the shot on Monday the 1
st of February, that evening she felt some local area pain on the injection side.â