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No reports of local teenagers with post-vaccine heart conditions


A COVID vaccine being administered (SBG Photo)
A COVID vaccine being administered (SBG Photo)
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The CDC is looking into some potential side effects in teenagers that could possibly be linked to the COVID-19 vaccine.

Scientists say it comes from several reports of heart inflammation which appears around four days after getting a shot.

So far, Metro Health so they haven't gotten any reports of it here in Bexar County.

One pediatrician says the fact that the CDC is investigating this is a good sign.

For the De La Cruz Family, the motivation to get vaccinated was simple.

“Just getting out of the house, just being normal again,” said Norma De La Cruz.

Norma and her 16-year old son Avry got their second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on Monday.

“Once the two weeks are over we’re going on vacation somewhere,” Norma said.

Avry, who is going to be a junior at the Marshall magnet school next year, is ready for high school activities to get back to normal.

“I haven’t really gone over there,” Avry said. “I’ve been virtual this whole time.”

“He’s got marching camp already the second week of June for a whole week,” Norma said. “So we were just grateful by then he’ll be ok.”

The CDC recommended the Pfizer vaccine for kids as young as 12 back on May 13.

Metro Health says more than 15,000 kids in Bexar County between the ages of 12 and 15 have been vaccinated already.

Right now, the CDC is looking into reports of a heart inflammation, also called myocarditis, after younger teens and young men get their second vaccine dose.

“This is the system working exactly the way the system is supposed to work,” said Dr. JB Cantey, a professor of pediatrics at UT Health San Antonio.

Cantey says so far studies have shown there is no link between the vaccine and heart inflammation, which unfortunately is common.

“Especially in teenagers and young adults,” Cantey said. “We see about a case out of every 5 to 10,000 people. “We’re seeing the same amount of myocarditis that we would see pre-vaccine.”

A spokesperson for the Texas Department of State Health Services says they've heard of a couple of cases of heart inflammation after vaccination, but nothing more frequent than what you'd normally expect.

The spokesperson added it is something they're keeping an eye on just in case.

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