Vaccine opponents are misrepresenting a recent study that assessed a group of 15 children who were diagnosed with myopericarditis (inflammation of heart muscles) after receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Of the 15 patients, 10 had abnormal cardiac activity when evaluated. A physician with a large online following who has previously spread vaccine misinformation posted that 63 percent of children in the study experienced the abnormality without clarifying that the study only included a small group of children experiencing a rare vaccine side effect. The post also fails to mention that all of the children improved quickly after receiving treatment.
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