CDC calls urgent meeting to investigate 226 cases of heart inflammation in teen boys after having Pfizer or Moderna shots
The CDC has called an urgent meeting regarding the higher-than-expected number of young men who have had heart inflammation after receiving the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines
- The CDC will hold an urgent meeting on June 18 to address the number of young men who've had heart inflammation after receiving Pfizer and Moderna vaccines
- The meeting will address the the 226 plausible cases of heart inflammation after receiving the second dose of the vaccines
- It comes a week after Israel reported it had found a likely link to the condition in young men following the second Pfizer dose
- The CDC other health regulators across the world have been investigating links between heart inflammation cases and COVID-19 vaccines since
- Israel said it had found 148 cases of myocarditis soon after the patient had been vaccinated
- In May, officials at the European Medicines Agency also reported receiving 107 reports of myocarditis following the Pfizer vaccine
- Britain's medical regulator announced on Friday it has not yet detected any link between Pfizer and Moderna's vaccines and heart damage