Forcing all young students to get COVID-19 vaccine boosters will cause more harm than benefit, according to a new risk-benefit analysis.
Some 22,000 to 30,000 adults aged 18 to 29 who have never been infected with COVID-19 must be vaccinated with a messenger RNA (mRNA) booster to prevent a single COVID-19 hospitalization, researchers estimated after crunching numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other sources. The Pfizer and Moderna shots are built on mRNA technology.
For one prevented hospitalization, the researchers estimated there would be 18 to 98 serious adverse events, including 1.7 to 3 cases of heart inflammation in young males.
The vast majority of cases of heart inflammation, or myocarditis, require hospital care….