A top university in Rhode Island is not denying that a student at the school was hospitalized with heart inflammation after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
Russell Carey, an executive vice president at the school, said in a recent missive (pdf) that the university would not comment on a specific student’s medical condition.
“In regard to the second- and third-hand claims outlined in your letter about an alleged reaction to the vaccine by a Brown student: To provide information about a specific student’s medical condition without consent would violate federal privacy law,” Carey said.
Carey was responding to doctors and a state lawmaker who questioned the school over the hospitalization, which was reported by a cardiologist who was on call at a school-linked hospital when it occurred in 2021….