Boy, 16, had cardiac arrest after exercise following 1st Pfizer vaccine dose

BATTLEFORWORLD.COM | July 5, 2021: The Singapore Ministry of Health (MOH) announced on Monday (5 July) that an investigation has been launched after the Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH) on Saturday reported an incident involving a 16-year-old boy who suffered a cardiac arrest after lifting weights six days into receiving his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The young boy was treated at the emergency department following his collapse at home on the same morning and remains in critical condition at the intensive care unit at the National University Hospital (NUH).

His first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech/Comirnaty vaccine was administered on June 27. According to the ministry: “We are in contact with the medical team in the NUH who are providing close medical care for the patient. The preliminary diagnosis of his condition is an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Clinical and laboratory tests are in progress to understand the underlying cause.”

The ministry also noted that the work of the hospital’s medical team in NUH is to find out if the incident was linked to the boy’s COVID-19 vaccination. To include a thorough investigation on whether there was an acute severe myocarditis, which is severe inflammation of the heart muscles affecting the heart function.

The emerging data is showing that a small risk of myocarditis and pericarditis was observed after vaccination with mRNA COVID-19 vaccines – …

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