CDC Postpones Emergency Meeting on COVID Vax Complications

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CDC Postpones Emergency Meeting on COVID Vaccine Complications to Observe Juneteenth Holiday



Erin Coates

June 18, 2021 at 10:20am


The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cancelled its meeting to discuss the occurrence of heart inflammation among people who received the COVID-19 vaccine to observe the Juneteenth national holiday.



CDC advisers were scheduled to meet on Friday to assess the possibility of a link between rare cases of myocarditis and mRNA COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, Reuters reported.



The CDC and the Food and Drug Administration confirmed 268 reports of myocarditis or pericarditis among people ages 30 and younger after receiving the coronavirus vaccine, according to Precision Vaccinations.



The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices was postponed to June 23-25 after President Joe Biden declared June 19 as the Juneteenth Day of Observance.



Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the United States in commemoration of enslaved Americans in Galveston, Texas, who were freed from bondage on June 19, 1865.



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“I call upon the people of the United States to acknowledge and celebrate the end of the Civil War and the emancipation of Black Americans, and commit together to eradicate systemic racism that still undermines our founding ideals and collective prosperity,” Biden said in his proclamation.



The ACIP was going to conduct a benefit-risk discussion Friday on the COVID-19 vaccine, specifically with regard to myocarditis and pericarditis in teenagers and young adults.



Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle and pericarditis is an inflammation of the sac around the heart, NPR reported.



The CDC has recommended everyone over the age of 12 get vaccinated, and nearly 7 million teens and preteens have received at least one dose as of Thursday.

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