Are You Unvaccinated? It's Time to Make an End-of-Life Plan — Life expectancy in the United States fell by one and a half years in 2020, the largest annual decline in life expectancy since World War II. Now, one and a half years into the COVID-19 pandemic, with over 626,000 American lives lost, we have an abundance of safe, accessible Covid vaccines, and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine just received full approval beyond emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Summer 2021 was supposed to be a return to normalcy, a "hot vax" summer of connection and prosperity. Instead, we saw a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and the return of Center for Disease Control (CDC) mask mandates, largely due to the over 90-million eligible Americans who remain unvaccinated in the setting of the highly infectious Delta variant.

    COVID Vaccines Heart Risk Warning Update Issued by FDA — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded its warnings on Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines about the risks of two heart conditions.

    These manufacturers, the two main COVID-19 vaccine providers, will now have to update their information about the chances of myocarditis and pericarditis, the FDA said in a safety communication notice issued Wednesday.

    Pfizer and Moderna have both advised doctors about cases of myocarditis and pericarditis in young men who have taken the vaccine since 2021 but the FDA has asked them to expand these warnings.

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    1. drpussycookermd on

      >…the estimated unadjusted incidence of myocarditis and/or pericarditis … was approximately 8 cases per million doses in individuals 6 months through 64 years of age and approximately 27 cases per million doses in males 12 through 24 years of age.

      From the article. I’m totes okay with a one-in-a-million chance of bad reaction to prevent/lessen the far more likely possibility of covid infection

    2. arnoldinho82 on

      From your link, for anyone wondering what actually happened.

      The new warning says that the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis has shown to be highest among men between the ages of 12 and 24. Previous labels said the issue was a risk for men aged 12 to17, according to The Associated Press.

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