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Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022

Are myocarditis cases caused by COVID-19 vaccines more dangerous than those from COVID-19?

Dean Miller, Lead Stories
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Myocarditis experts say cases of inflammation of the heart muscle caused by the COVID-19 infection are significantly worse and far more common than cases resulting from a reaction to the COVID-19 vaccines. 

A founder of the Myocarditis Foundation, Mayo Clinic specialist Leslie T. Cooper, M.D., said the accumulating evidence is that there's a far greater risk of serious myocarditis from infection than there is from the rare incidence of vaccine-triggered myocarditis.

"In terms of severity, there's really no comparison … Having been on the front line of this, taking care of COVID patients, there's no doubt the virus has got to be, 100 percent, worse than the vaccine," he said.

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