Health officials in New Zealand believe a 26-year-old man’s death may be linked to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. An early review shows the probable cause of death was myocarditis, which is a rare side effect of the vaccine that inflames the heart muscle wall.
“With the current available information, the Board has considered that the myocarditis was probably due to vaccination in this individual,” New Zealand’s COVID-19 Vaccine Independent Safety Monitoring Board said in a statement to Bloomberg on Monday.
The board said that “COVID-19 infection can itself be a cause of myocarditis as well as other serious illnesses and it remains safer to be vaccinated than to be infected with the virus.”, Bloomberg reported. In late August, a woman died from myocarditis, which the board said was likely due to vaccination. Two other people -- a 13-year-old child and a man in his 60s -- have also died with potential myocarditis, though they may not have been related to vaccination.
“The benefits of vaccination with the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 continue to greatly outweigh the risk of such rare side effects,” the board told Bloomberg. The World Health Organization has said myocarditis is “very rare” but has been reported after the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, according . The cases have been more common in young men ages 16-24 after the second dose of the vaccine, typically within a few days after vaccination.
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