A Rose By Any Other Name

In this article from Nov 2021, PopSci suggests a bold and daring approach to tackling post-vaccine cardiac disease:

“Let’s not call this myocarditis”

Sarah Long, pediatric infectious disease expert at Drexel University College of Medicine

Over the past two weeks, the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention weighed approval for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for kids aged 5 to 11 years old.

During the days-long meetings, questions of heart inflammation following the vaccine loomed large.

… Sarah Long, a pediatric infectious disease expert at Drexel University College of Medicine, and a member of the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel, thinks that the post-vaccine heart inflammation might be different from the myocarditis that’s seen during an infection with COVID-19 or from some other cause. It’s so different, and less severe, than typical myocarditis, she says, that giving it the same name has created unnecessary worry over the condition.

… while inflammation of the heart lining sounds concerning, Long points out that surgeons sometimes remove it altogether during heart procedures, and patients do fine. It’s just not as essential to a healthy heartbeat.

https://www.popsci.com/health/how-dangerous-is-myocarditis-the-truth-about-the-scary-sounding-condition/

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