CDC Data More Positive on Myocarditis Benefit-Risk Than FDA’s Assessment of Pfizer’s Vaccine
Executive Summary
Updated modeling on heart events in young adults presented to CDC’s vaccine advisors points towards much lower rates of the adverse event from mRNA vaccines than some of FDA’s modeling.
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