Florida’s Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, announced new guidance on mRNA vaccines on Friday, specifically recommending against mRNA COVID-19 vaccines for males aged 18 to 39.
The new guidance came after the Florida Department of Health carried out an analysis to evaluate vaccine safety, the department said in a bulletin on Friday.
The statewide analysis of vaccinated Florida residents aged 18 years or older (pdf) found an 84 percent increase in the relative incidence of cardiac-related deaths among males aged 18–39, within 28 days of mRNA vaccination.
“Non-mRNA vaccines were not found to have these increased risks,” the Florida Department of Health noted.
Given the high level of global immunity to COVID-19, the benefit of vaccination with mRNA vaccines “is likely outweighed by this abnormally high risk of cardiac-related death among men in this age group,” the department said….