On Dec 17: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told that it had received news of eight cases of myocarditis, a type of heart inflammation, in children aged 5-11 years who got Pfizer (PFE.N) and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine. The CDC also said that reporting rates of myocarditis for boys aged 16 to 17 could be more than 69 cases per million and around 40 cases per million second doses in boys aged 12-15 years old.
