Article falsely claims study links COVID-19 vaccines to rare heart complication

An article on a conspiracy news site falsely claims that a CDC report shows that COVID-19 vaccines cause a 13,200 percent increase in autoimmune myocarditis. The study in question never mentions autoimmune myocarditis, which is an extremely rare form of myocarditis, which is itself a rare condition. The study did find a slight increase in myocarditis in male adolescents and young adults, but the overall risk of heart complications in the age group is much higher after COVID-19 infection than vaccination.

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