Covid-19 roundup: CDC ad­vi­sors find like­ly link be­tween mR­NA vac­cines and rare cas­es of heart in­flam­ma­tion; NIH launch­es new vac­cine study in preg­nant vol­un­teers 

The FDA will up­date the fact sheets for the Pfiz­er/BioN­Tech and Mod­er­na Covid-19 vac­cines, af­ter the CDC ad­vi­so­ry group ACIP found that rare cas­es of heart in­flam­ma­tion in ado­les­cents and young adults are like­ly linked to the shots, Reuters re­port­ed.

Ac­cord­ing to the CDC’s web­site, there have been more than a thou­sand re­ports of heart in­flam­ma­tion fol­low­ing mR­NA vac­ci­na­tion since April. These cas­es are rare, ac­cord­ing to the agency, giv­en the hun­dreds of mil­lions of dos­es ad­min­is­tered. Most have been mild, and in­di­vid­u­als of­ten re­cov­er on their own or with min­i­mal treat­ment, sev­er­al pub­lic health fig­ures said in a joint state­ment.

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