Israel Sees Probable Link Between Pfizer Vaccine and Rare Myocarditis Cases

Israel Sees Probable Link Between Pfizer Vaccine and Rare Myocarditis Cases
A medical worker prepares a COVID-19 vaccine at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Dec. 20, 2020. Amir Levy/Getty Images
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JERUSALEM—Israel’s Health Ministry said on June 1 it had found the small number of heart inflammation cases observed mainly in young men who received Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in Israel were likely linked to their vaccination.

Pfizer has said it hasn’t observed a higher rate of the condition, known as myocarditis, than would normally be expected in the general population.