ADVERTISEMENT Today: A CDC advisory panel met to examine heart inflammation and the vaccines, a judge gave a setback to Missouri Medicaid expansion, and Biogen opened the door to adjusting the price of its controversial Alzheimer’s drug. Let’s start with the CDC: CDC panel finds 'likely' link between rare mild heart inflammation in adolescents and COVID-19 vaccine A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) safety panel said there is a "likely association" of mild heart inflammation in adolescents and young adults after they were vaccinated with an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. The initial cases of myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle, and pericarditis, inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart, reported on the federal government's tracking system were generally mild, especially compared to traditional myocarditis, scientists said.