Covid vaccines not associated with sudden cardiac death in young people: US CDC – WION

The United States (US) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Thursday (Apr 11) that Covid vaccines were not associated with sudden cardiac death among previously healthy young people. Since vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna were authorised in late 2020, anti-vaccination groups in the country blamed the shots for fatal heart problems in young athletes.

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In a statement, the CDC said that vaccination has been associated with myocarditis in adolescents and young adults, and concerns have been raised about possible vaccine-related cardiac fatalities in this age group.

"In April 2021, cases of myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination, particularly among young male vaccine recipients, were reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System," it added.

To assess the above possibility, investigators searched the death certificates of people from Oregon between the ages of 16 and 30 years who died between June 2021December 2022 for cardiac or undetermined causes of death.

For the identified decedents, records in Oregon's immunisation information system were reviewed for documentation of COVID-19 vaccination received at 100 days or less than 100 days before death.

Of the 1,292 identified deaths, Covid was cited as the cause for 30, the CDC said.

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"For 101 others, a cardiac cause of death could not be excluded; among these decedents, immunization information system records were available for 88, three of whom had received an mRNA (Messenger RNA) COVID-19 vaccination within 100 days of the death," it said.

The CDC pointed out that of the 40 deaths that occurred among people who were vaccinated against the virus, three occurred at 100 days or less than 100 days after inoculation.

"Two of these deaths were attributed to chronic underlying conditions; the cause was undetermined for one. No death certificate attributed death to vaccination," the health body further said.

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