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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it is investigating after a small number of teens and young adults reported having heart problems after being vaccinated for COVID-19. A CDC safety committee released an advisory last week to alert doctors of “myocarditis” among younger vaccine recipients after a “relatively few” cases of the unusual heart symptom surfaced. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday during a press briefing that President Joe Biden has been informed of the reported cases and that the administration will continue to advise young people to ge...

“Our health and medical experts still continue to convey that it is the right step for 12- to 15-year-olds to get vaccinated, that these are limited cases, and that, obviously, the risks of contracting COVID are certainly significant even for people of that age,” Psaki said. Health officials say the reported cases appear to be mild and typically begin within four days after the second dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.                The CDC has yet to determine if the vaccines were the cause of the reported heart condition. “What’s important to know and to recogni...

Connecticut Confirms at Least 18 Cases of Apparent Heart Problems in Young People After COVID-19 Vaccination © Provided by NBC Connecticut At least 18 teens and young adults in Connecticut have shown symptoms of heart problems after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, acting health commissioner Dr. Deirdre Gifford said Monday. Gifford said all but one of the young adults hospitalized for signs of heart problems have been released. Four of those young residents were hospitalized at Yale New Haven Health and three at Connecticut Children's. "All of the cases that were reported to us were hospital...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it is investigating after a small number of teens and young adults reported having heart problems after being vaccinated for COVID-19. A CDC safety committee released an advisory last week to alert doctors of “myocarditis” among younger vaccine recipients after a “relatively few” cases of the unusual heart symptom surfaced. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday during a press briefing that President Joe Biden has been informed of the reported cases and that the administration will continue to advise young people to ge...

The symptoms seem to appear in teenagers and young adults about four days after their second dose of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine. 13-year-old Loraine Curtis of San Jose received her first COVID- shot today and just learned about the finding. “It’s definitely concerning but I do feel a little bit safer knowing that it didn’t happen to a lot of people,” said San Jose resident Loraine Curtis. Hayward resident Melissa Angervil said that now she is even more hesitant about her child getting the vaccine in the future. “It’s scary because you really just don’t know what can happen ...