The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released new data suggesting that cases of post-COVID-19 vaccine-linked heart inflammation among young males have risen.
Recent figures published in the CDC’s Vaccine Safety Datalink surveillance system show that within a week of getting the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, there were 14 confirmed cases of myocarditis or pericarditis among 102,091 males between the ages of 16 and 17. And of the 206,000 12- to 15-year-old males who got the same two-dose vaccine series, 31 cases were confirmed in a week, according to the data (pdf).
In August 2021, the CDC reported 42.6 myocarditis and pericarditis cases per million and 71.5 per million for 12- to 15-year-old males and 16- to 17-year-old males, respectively. That breaks down to about one in 23,500 for the younger group and around one in 14,000 for the older group….