Article 5Y2R6 Heart inflammation after Covid vaccine ‘no more common than after other jabs’

Heart inflammation after Covid vaccine ‘no more common than after other jabs’

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Nicola Davis Science correspondent
from World news | The Guardian on (#5Y2R6)

Research finds risk of myopericarditis after Covid jab is low and similar to that after flu vaccine

Heart inflammation after a Covid jab is not only rare but no more common than after other types of vaccinations, researchers have found.

As Covid vaccination programmes began around the world it emerged that some people - particularly young men - subsequently developed myocarditis, a type of inflammation of the heart muscle, or pericarditis, inflammation of the outer lining of the heart.

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