False, Misleading Information About COVID-19 Vaccines and Myocarditis Spreads Widely

Health agencies and doctors are making false claims about COVID-19 vaccination in an attempt to encourage people to take up the new shots.

A health care worker prepares a COVID-19 vaccine in a file photograph. Bay Ismoyo/AFP via Getty Images

False and misleading information about COVID-19 vaccines and heart inflammation is being spread widely, including by doctors.

That includes claims that data clearly show myocarditis, or heart inflammation, is more prevalent after COVID-19 infection when compared to COVID-19 vaccination.