"With the current available information, the Board has considered that the myocarditis was probably due to vaccination in this individual," a statement from New Zealand's Covid-19 Vaccine Independent Safety Monitoring Board said of the man, who died within two weeks of receiving his first Pfizer vaccine, per Bloomberg.
The statement noted that "Covid-19 infection can itself be a cause of myocarditis" and said "it remains safer to be vaccinated than to be infected with the virus."
The board also highlighted that "the benefits of vaccination with the Pfizer vaccine for Covid-19 continue to greatly outweigh the risk of such rare side effects."
The World Health Organization (WHO) has acknowledged that "a very rare signal of myocarditis" has been reported from some COVID-19 vaccines. The organization added that most myocarditis cases occur in young men between the ages of 16 and 24, typically within a few days of their second vaccination.
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