Acute Myocarditis/Pericarditis in Hong Kong Adolescents Following Comirnaty Vaccination
A study looking at how many adolescents got Myocarditis/Pericarditis after Pizer
A study from Oxford Academic Clinical Infectious Diseases looking at incidences of myocarditis/pericarditis in adolesants aged 12 to 17 after taking the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine.
Results:
The overall incidence of acute myocarditis/pericarditis was 18.52 (95% Confidence Interval [CI], 11.67-29.01) per 100,000 persons vaccinated.
Conclusions
There is a significant increase in the risk of acute myocarditis/pericarditis following Comirnaty vaccination among Chinese male adolescents, especially after the second dose.
All cases are mild and required only conservative management.
Link to study:
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab989/6445179