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Inflammation of the heart and vaccines

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Katelyn Jetelina
May 24, 2021
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In the past few days, mass media has picked up that the CDC is investigating reports of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) following mRNA vaccines.

Coronavirus: severe forms of the disease can damage the heart

This is true. What happened?

On May 14, the CDC alerted clinicians to the possible link between myocarditis and vaccines. The CDC wanted to get this on clinicians’ radars in case they saw similar cases …

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