MedPage Today April 11, 2024
— Mortality from vaccine-related myocarditis not supported by Oregon death records
The hunt for a signal of excess sudden cardiac deaths among young people after COVID-19 vaccination left Oregon health officials empty-handed, they reported.
Investigators searched death certificates for Oregon residents 16-30 years old who died from cardiac or undetermined causes of death from June 2021 to December 2022 and tried to match these deaths with mandatory statewide records of mRNA COVID vaccination, according to Juventila Liko, MD, and Paul Cieslak, MD, both of the Oregon Health Authority’s Public Health Division in Portland, in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Among the 24 male decedents with an mRNA COVID-19 vaccination record, two died within 100 days of having received...
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