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Higher heart risk rate from Moderna Vaccine as COVID-19 reinfection soars in US

*Health experts have disclosed Coronavirus reinfection rates are rising in the United States

Isola Moses | ÂÌñÏׯÞ

The United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says it has discovered that Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine may pose a higher risk of heart inflammation than the vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech.

ÂÌñÏ×ÆÞ reports both are mRNA vaccines.

The country’s health regulator’ report was released ahead of a meeting by an advisory committee to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), that would analyse data on the Pfizer/BioNTech Vaccine and determine whether it should be administered to young children, agency report said.

The CDC study also showed that the number of cases of heart inflammation caused by myocarditis and pericarditis was 97.3 cases per million doses for young adult males, following the second dose of Moderna’s shot, report

That compares to 81.7 cases per million Pfizer vaccine doses.

Meanwhile, report has indicated that Coronavirus reinfection rates are rising in the US.

Health experts say huge numbers of Americans have been infected with COVID-19 since the late 2021 arrival of the Omicron variant and its various subvariants, with several consumers having been infected multiple times.

Doctors point to two of the newer subvariants – BA.4 and BA.5 – as the leading culprits behind reinfections.

Even among fully vaccinated and boosted people, the two strains find ways to evade protective antibodies and make people sick, according to report.

There is some good news, however, as the COVID-19 infections caused by the emerging subvariants appear to be much less serious than infections from previous strains.

It was gathered that despite the rising number of cases, there are fewer COVID-19 patients requiring hospitalisations and even fewer requiring intensive care in the American country.

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