Australia Ceases Reporting Cases of Myocarditis Post-COVID Vaccination

Australia Ceases Reporting Cases of Myocarditis Post-COVID Vaccination
A 14-year-old girl gets a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Hartford, Conn., on May 13, 2021. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images
Jessie Zhang
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Australia’s therapeutic goods administration (TGA) has announced that reports on myocarditis and pericarditis cases following mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna are not necessary anymore and will no longer be provided.

Australia’s national drug authority says this is because the rates have stabilised.

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