Subclinical Heart Damage More Prevalent Than Thought After Moderna Vaccination: Study

Subclinical Heart Damage More Prevalent Than Thought After Moderna Vaccination: Study - Zachary Stieber, Reporter

• "Damage to the heart is more common than thought after receipt of Moderna’s COVID-19 booster, a new study indicates.
• One in 35 (2.8%) health care workers at a Swiss hospital had signs of heart injury associated with the vaccine, mRNA-1273, researchers found.
• In a generally healthy population, the level would be about 1 percent, the researchers said...

“According to current knowledge, the cardiac muscle can’t regenerate, or only to a very limited degree at best. 

So it’s possible that repeated booster vaccinations every year could cause moderate damage to the heart muscle cells,” University Hospital Basel professor Christian Muller, a cardiologist and the lead researcher, said in a statement...