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In Israel say they've found a possible link between the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and cases of heart inflammation in young men ages 16 to 30, according to a report submitted this week to the country's Ministry of Health

 

The report concluded that around 1 in 5,000 men who receive the vaccine may experience this side effect, known as myocarditis, which is higher than the rate seen for the whole vaccinated population during that time period, which was 1 in 50,000.

So far, the data isn't yet strong enough to prove that the vaccine caused these cases — experts say there are a number of factors that make it difficult to definitively tie the vaccine to heart inflammation, a link that's also being investigated in the United States. 

 

And even if there is a link, it's important to note that the vast majority of myocarditis cases seen after vaccination have so far been mild and responded well to anti-inflammatory medications, such as steroids, said Dr. Alejandro Jordan-Villegas, a pediatric infectious disease expert at Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, who was not involved with the report. At this point, "the benefit of the vaccine outweighs the risk," Jordan-Villegas told Live Science.

 

"I ask parents, relatives and close friends to join me and talk with teens about the importance of these prevention strategies and to encourage them to get vaccinated," CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, said in an statement.

 

The Israeli report, which was led by Dr. Dror Mevorach, head of internal medicine at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, found more than 110 cases of myocarditis in Israel that occurred around the time of COVID-19 vaccination, mostly after the second shot, out of about 5 million people vaccinated across the country. That works out to a rate of 1 in 50,000 people vaccinated. But the majority of people who developed myocarditis were young men, with the rate among men ages 16 to 24 (who made up 10% of the vaccinated population) estimated to be 1 in 5,000, according to the report, which Mevorach emailed to Live Science. However, younger men are in general more likely than women to get myocarditis, according to the National Organization for Rare Disorders.