{"id":36818,"date":"2021-06-23T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36818"},"modified":"2021-06-23T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T01:42:00","slug":"cdc-panel-finds-likely-link-between-rare-mild-heart-inflammation-in-adolescents-and-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36818","title":{"rendered":"CDC panel finds &#8216;likely&#8217; link between rare mild heart inflammation in adolescents and COVID-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) safety panel said there is a &#8220;likely association&#8221; of mild heart inflammation in adolescents and young adults after they were vaccinated with an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>The initial cases of myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle, and pericarditis, inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart, reported on the federal government&#8217;s tracking system were generally mild, especially compared to traditional myocarditis, scientists said.<\/p>\n<p>Most cases have been mild, with symptoms like fatigue, chest pain and disturbances in heart rhythm that quickly clear up within a day or so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rarity<\/strong>:\u00a0Officials said they are tracking about 1,200 initial reports of the rare heart inflammation following doses of mRNA coronavirus vaccines have been filed with the federal government&#8217;s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), though they have not yet been definitively linked to the vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>Most reports came from people in their late teens and early 20s, and many more occurred after the second dose than the first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A Centers for Disease Control&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36819,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36818\/revisions\/36819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}