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Calculated Shard: 143 (from laksa109)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa143.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical, ml_categories_json AS ml_categories_json, ml_types_json AS ml_types_json, ml_intent_types_json AS ml_intent_types_json, meta_language AS meta_language, attrs_author AS attrs_author, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(attrs_publish_time), 0) AS attrs_publish_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(attrs_original_publish_time), 0) AS attrs_original_publish_time, ifNull(attrs_is_republished, 0) AS attrs_is_republished, ifNull(attrs_nr_words, 0) AS attrs_nr_words, ifNull(attrs_boilerpipe_nr_words, 0) AS attrs_boilerpipe_nr_words, ifNull(body_ext_links_number, 0) AS body_ext_links_number, ifNull(body_int_links_number, 0) AS body_int_links_number, ifNull(meta_nofollow, 0) AS meta_nofollow, ifNull(meta_noarchive, 0) AS meta_noarchive, ifNull(props_was_rendered, 0) AS props_was_rendered, ifNull(src_redirect, \'\') AS src_redirect, ifNull(download_time_msec, 0) AS download_time_msec, ifNull(download_ttfb_msec, 0) AS download_ttfb_msec, ifNull(download_size, 0) AS download_size FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-covid-vaccine-mrna-heart-side-effects-warning-label/\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-covid-vaccine-mrna-heart-side-effects-warning-label/\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fda-covid-vaccine-mrna-heart-side-effects-warning-label\/","crawl_time":1776582721,"first_indexed_time":1747844091,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,cbsnews!www,\/news\/fda-covid-vaccine-mrna-heart-side-effects-warning-label\/ s443","src_root_hash":"10008871826360721943","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"FDA expands COVID vaccine warning about heart side effect risk for young males - CBS News","meta_descriptions":["The FDA is requiring COVID vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna to update their warnings about the possible risk of myocarditis and pericarditis."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"By\nUpdated on:  May 21, 2025 \/ 12:32 PM EDT\n\/ CBS News\nAdd CBS News on Google\nThe\nFood and Drug Administration\nis telling Pfizer and Moderna to expand the warning labels on their\nCOVID-19 vaccines\nabout the risk of a possible heart injury side effect linked to the mRNA shots, primarily in teen boys and young men, citing findings from a study published last year and new agency data.\nOrders to expand the warnings were posted Wednesday by the FDA, in letters dated April 17 to Pfizer and BioNTech about their\nComirnaty\nvaccine and Moderna about its\nSpikevax\nvaccine.\nBoth\nvaccines\npreviously carried warnings about how the risk of the heart side effects — which doctors call myocarditis (an inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart) — looked to be higher in young men, generally within the first week after vaccination. While the earlier labels specified ages 18 to 24 years old for Moderna's vaccine and 12 to 17 years old for Pfizer's, the new warning will apply to males ages 16 to 25 for both vaccines.\n\"Following administration of the 2023-2024 Formula of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, the highest estimated incidence of myocarditis and\/or pericarditis was in males 16 through 25 years of age,\" the FDA says in the new blanket warning it will require for both vaccines.\nThe rate of myocarditis and pericarditis was around 8 cases per million doses for children and adults under 65 years old after use of that season's vaccines, the FDA says.\nThe new warnings ordered by the FDA add that the \"highest estimated incidence was in males 16 through 25 years of age,\" with a rate of 38 cases per million.\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has\npreviously described\nrates of myocarditis and pericarditis as rare after COVID-19 vaccination. \nCDC officials told the agency's vaccine advisers\nlast month\nthat acute myocarditis \"tends to resolve quickly\" after vaccination, and no increased risk had been seen in data from recent seasons in people 12 to 39 years old.\nIt is unclear whether Pfizer or Moderna disputed the order. They had \"within 30 calendar days of the date of this letter\" to try to rebut the demand. Spokespeople for Moderna and Pfizer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\n\"Americans deserve radical transparency around the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines and the FDA is delivering on their promise to do just that. Moderna and Pfizer should take steps to ensure that individuals are aware of COVID vaccine-related adverse events resulting in myocarditis and pericarditis,\" Andrew Nixon, a spokesperson for the \nDepartment of Health and Human Services\n, told CBS News in an email. Nixon did not explain why the letters were posted more than a month after they were written.\nThey appeared on the FDA's website hours ahead of a\nhearing\norganized by the Republican-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on \"how health officials downplayed and hid myocarditis and other adverse events associated with the COVID-19 vaccines.\"\nAaron Siri, an attorney who worked closely with Health and Human Services Secretary\nRobert F. Kennedy Jr.\nin the past\nto call on the FDA to pull COVID-19 and other vaccines and vet nominees during the transition, is among the witnesses.\nThe FDA says the warnings were spurred by new data from the agency's safety surveillance system and results published\nin October\nfrom scientists following up with people who developed COVID-19 vaccine-associated myocarditis.\nTalks about this kind of safety labeling change began before the ouster of the FDA's previous top vaccines official, Dr. Peter Marks, multiple people familiar with the situation said, but had not yet been finalized as officials wrestled with how to accurately present the findings.\nMarks left the FDA\non April 5.\nScientists in that study followed up with people who had faced chest pain and elevated amounts of troponin in their blood, a protein that usually signals some kind of heart damage. They were predominantly young adolescent males.\n\"While their clinical course was nearly always mild with a low prevalence and extent of cardiac dysfunction, myocardial injury was common,\" the scientists wrote in the study, which was co-authored by FDA officials.\nSimilar to what the study described, the FDA's new warning also says that the heart MRI findings showed \"improvement over time in most people.\"\n\"It is not known if these heart MRI findings might predict long-term heart effects of myocarditis. Studies are underway to find out if there are long-term heart effects in people who have had myocarditis after receiving an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine,\" the FDA said.\nEdited by\nPaula  Cohen\nIn:\nCOVID-19 Vaccine\nCOVID-19\nFood and Drug Administration","attrs_markdown":"- [Latest](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fda-covid-vaccine-mrna-heart-side-effects-warning-label\/)\n  - [U.S.](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/us\/)\n  - [Iran War](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/iran-war-trump-israel-lebanon-ceasefire-hezbollah-strait-hormuz\/)\n  - [Strait of Hormuz](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/strait-of-hormuz-visit-iran-war-exclusive\/)\n  - [World](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/world\/)\n  - [Politics](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/politics\/)\n  - [Entertainment](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/entertainment\/)\n  - [HealthWatch](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/healthwatch\/)\n  - [MoneyWatch](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/moneywatch\/)\n  - [Crime](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/crime\/)\n  - [Space](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/space\/)\n  - 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He covers federal public health agencies.\n\n[Read Full Bio](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/alexander-tin\/)\n\n[Alexander Tin](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/alexander-tin\/)\n\nUpdated on: May 21, 2025 \/ 12:32 PM EDT \/ CBS News\n\n[Add CBS News on Google](https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=cbsnews.com)\n\nThe [Food and Drug Administration](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/food-and-drug-administration\/) is telling Pfizer and Moderna to expand the warning labels on their [COVID-19 vaccines](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/covid-vaccine-2025-fda-seniors-clinical-trials\/) about the risk of a possible heart injury side effect linked to the mRNA shots, primarily in teen boys and young men, citing findings from a study published last year and new agency data.\n\nOrders to expand the warnings were posted Wednesday by the FDA, in letters dated April 17 to Pfizer and BioNTech about their [Comirnaty](https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/media\/186581\/download?attachment) vaccine and Moderna about its [Spikevax](https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/media\/186580\/download?attachment) vaccine.\n\nBoth [vaccines](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fda-critic-covid-boosters-new-top-vaccines-official-vinay-prasad\/) previously carried warnings about how the risk of the heart side effects — which doctors call myocarditis (an inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart) — looked to be higher in young men, generally within the first week after vaccination. While the earlier labels specified ages 18 to 24 years old for Moderna's vaccine and 12 to 17 years old for Pfizer's, the new warning will apply to males ages 16 to 25 for both vaccines.\n\n\"Following administration of the 2023-2024 Formula of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, the highest estimated incidence of myocarditis and\/or pericarditis was in males 16 through 25 years of age,\" the FDA says in the new blanket warning it will require for both vaccines.\n\nThe rate of myocarditis and pericarditis was around 8 cases per million doses for children and adults under 65 years old after use of that season's vaccines, the FDA says.\n\nThe new warnings ordered by the FDA add that the \"highest estimated incidence was in males 16 through 25 years of age,\" with a rate of 38 cases per million.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has [previously described](https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/covid-19\/clinical-considerations\/myocarditis.html) rates of myocarditis and pericarditis as rare after COVID-19 vaccination.\n\nCDC officials told the agency's vaccine advisers [last month](https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/acip\/downloads\/slides-2025-04-15-16\/05-Panagiotakopoulos-COVID-508.pdf#page=40) that acute myocarditis \"tends to resolve quickly\" after vaccination, and no increased risk had been seen in data from recent seasons in people 12 to 39 years old.\n\nIt is unclear whether Pfizer or Moderna disputed the order. They had \"within 30 calendar days of the date of this letter\" to try to rebut the demand. Spokespeople for Moderna and Pfizer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\n\n\"Americans deserve radical transparency around the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines and the FDA is delivering on their promise to do just that. Moderna and Pfizer should take steps to ensure that individuals are aware of COVID vaccine-related adverse events resulting in myocarditis and pericarditis,\" Andrew Nixon, a spokesperson for the [Department of Health and Human Services](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/united-states-department-of-health-and-human-services\/), told CBS News in an email. Nixon did not explain why the letters were posted more than a month after they were written.\n\nThey appeared on the FDA's website hours ahead of a [hearing](https:\/\/www.hsgac.senate.gov\/subcommittees\/investigations\/hearings\/the-corruption-of-science-and-federal-health-agencies-how-health-officials-downplayed-and-hid-myocarditis-and-other-adverse-events-associated-with-the-covid-19-vaccines\/) organized by the Republican-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on \"how health officials downplayed and hid myocarditis and other adverse events associated with the COVID-19 vaccines.\"\n\nAaron Siri, an attorney who worked closely with Health and Human Services Secretary [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/rfk-jr-interview-takeaways-measles-food-dyes-weight-loss-drugs\/) [in the past](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/rfk-jr-mitch-mcconnell-polio-vaccine\/) to call on the FDA to pull COVID-19 and other vaccines and vet nominees during the transition, is among the witnesses.\n\nThe FDA says the warnings were spurred by new data from the agency's safety surveillance system and results published [in October](https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/eclinm\/article\/PIIS2589-5370\\(24\\)00388-2\/fulltext) from scientists following up with people who developed COVID-19 vaccine-associated myocarditis.\n\nTalks about this kind of safety labeling change began before the ouster of the FDA's previous top vaccines official, Dr. Peter Marks, multiple people familiar with the situation said, but had not yet been finalized as officials wrestled with how to accurately present the findings. [Marks left the FDA](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fda-top-vaccine-official-peter-marks-forced-out-decries-rfk-jr-misinformation-and-lies\/) on April 5.\n\nScientists in that study followed up with people who had faced chest pain and elevated amounts of troponin in their blood, a protein that usually signals some kind of heart damage. They were predominantly young adolescent males.\n\n\"While their clinical course was nearly always mild with a low prevalence and extent of cardiac dysfunction, myocardial injury was common,\" the scientists wrote in the study, which was co-authored by FDA officials.\n\nSimilar to what the study described, the FDA's new warning also says that the heart MRI findings showed \"improvement over time in most people.\"\n\n\"It is not known if these heart MRI findings might predict long-term heart effects of myocarditis. 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While the earlier labels specified ages 18 to 24 years old for Moderna's vaccine and 12 to 17 years old for Pfizer's, the new warning will apply to males ages 16 to 25 for both vaccines.\n\n\"Following administration of the 2023-2024 Formula of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, the highest estimated incidence of myocarditis and\/or pericarditis was in males 16 through 25 years of age,\" the FDA says in the new blanket warning it will require for both vaccines.\n\nThe rate of myocarditis and pericarditis was around 8 cases per million doses for children and adults under 65 years old after use of that season's vaccines, the FDA says.\n\nThe new warnings ordered by the FDA add that the \"highest estimated incidence was in males 16 through 25 years of age,\" with a rate of 38 cases per million.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has [previously described](https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/covid-19\/clinical-considerations\/myocarditis.html) rates of myocarditis and pericarditis as rare after COVID-19 vaccination.\n\nCDC officials told the agency's vaccine advisers [last month](https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/acip\/downloads\/slides-2025-04-15-16\/05-Panagiotakopoulos-COVID-508.pdf#page=40) that acute myocarditis \"tends to resolve quickly\" after vaccination, and no increased risk had been seen in data from recent seasons in people 12 to 39 years old.\n\nIt is unclear whether Pfizer or Moderna disputed the order. 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Nixon did not explain why the letters were posted more than a month after they were written.\n\nThey appeared on the FDA's website hours ahead of a [hearing](https:\/\/www.hsgac.senate.gov\/subcommittees\/investigations\/hearings\/the-corruption-of-science-and-federal-health-agencies-how-health-officials-downplayed-and-hid-myocarditis-and-other-adverse-events-associated-with-the-covid-19-vaccines\/) organized by the Republican-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on \"how health officials downplayed and hid myocarditis and other adverse events associated with the COVID-19 vaccines.\"\n\nAaron Siri, an attorney who worked closely with Health and Human Services Secretary [Robert F. 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By Updated on: May 21, 2025 / 12:32 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google The Food and Drug Administration is telling Pfizer and Moderna to expand the warning labels on their COVID-19 vaccines about the risk of a possible heart injury side effect linked to the mRNA shots, primarily in teen boys and young men, citing findings from a study published last year and new agency data. Orders to expand the warnings were posted Wednesday by the FDA, in letters dated April 17 to Pfizer and BioNTech about their Comirnaty vaccine and Moderna about its Spikevax vaccine. Both vaccines previously carried warnings about how the risk of the heart side effects — which doctors call myocarditis (an inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart) — looked to be higher in young men, generally within the first week after vaccination. While the earlier labels specified ages 18 to 24 years old for Moderna's vaccine and 12 to 17 years old for Pfizer's, the new warning will apply to males ages 16 to 25 for both vaccines. "Following administration of the 2023-2024 Formula of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, the highest estimated incidence of myocarditis and/or pericarditis was in males 16 through 25 years of age," the FDA says in the new blanket warning it will require for both vaccines. The rate of myocarditis and pericarditis was around 8 cases per million doses for children and adults under 65 years old after use of that season's vaccines, the FDA says. The new warnings ordered by the FDA add that the "highest estimated incidence was in males 16 through 25 years of age," with a rate of 38 cases per million. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has previously described rates of myocarditis and pericarditis as rare after COVID-19 vaccination. CDC officials told the agency's vaccine advisers last month that acute myocarditis "tends to resolve quickly" after vaccination, and no increased risk had been seen in data from recent seasons in people 12 to 39 years old. It is unclear whether Pfizer or Moderna disputed the order. They had "within 30 calendar days of the date of this letter" to try to rebut the demand. Spokespeople for Moderna and Pfizer did not immediately respond to a request for comment. "Americans deserve radical transparency around the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines and the FDA is delivering on their promise to do just that. Moderna and Pfizer should take steps to ensure that individuals are aware of COVID vaccine-related adverse events resulting in myocarditis and pericarditis," Andrew Nixon, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services , told CBS News in an email. Nixon did not explain why the letters were posted more than a month after they were written. They appeared on the FDA's website hours ahead of a hearing organized by the Republican-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on "how health officials downplayed and hid myocarditis and other adverse events associated with the COVID-19 vaccines." Aaron Siri, an attorney who worked closely with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the past to call on the FDA to pull COVID-19 and other vaccines and vet nominees during the transition, is among the witnesses. The FDA says the warnings were spurred by new data from the agency's safety surveillance system and results published in October from scientists following up with people who developed COVID-19 vaccine-associated myocarditis. Talks about this kind of safety labeling change began before the ouster of the FDA's previous top vaccines official, Dr. Peter Marks, multiple people familiar with the situation said, but had not yet been finalized as officials wrestled with how to accurately present the findings. Marks left the FDA on April 5. Scientists in that study followed up with people who had faced chest pain and elevated amounts of troponin in their blood, a protein that usually signals some kind of heart damage. They were predominantly young adolescent males. "While their clinical course was nearly always mild with a low prevalence and extent of cardiac dysfunction, myocardial injury was common," the scientists wrote in the study, which was co-authored by FDA officials. Similar to what the study described, the FDA's new warning also says that the heart MRI findings showed "improvement over time in most people." "It is not known if these heart MRI findings might predict long-term heart effects of myocarditis. Studies are underway to find out if there are long-term heart effects in people who have had myocarditis after receiving an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine," the FDA said. Edited by Paula Cohen In: COVID-19 Vaccine COVID-19 Food and Drug Administration

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He covers federal public health agencies. [Read Full Bio](https://www.cbsnews.com/team/alexander-tin/) [Alexander Tin](https://www.cbsnews.com/team/alexander-tin/) Updated on: May 21, 2025 / 12:32 PM EDT / CBS News [Add CBS News on Google](https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=cbsnews.com) The [Food and Drug Administration](https://www.cbsnews.com/tag/food-and-drug-administration/) is telling Pfizer and Moderna to expand the warning labels on their [COVID-19 vaccines](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-2025-fda-seniors-clinical-trials/) about the risk of a possible heart injury side effect linked to the mRNA shots, primarily in teen boys and young men, citing findings from a study published last year and new agency data. Orders to expand the warnings were posted Wednesday by the FDA, in letters dated April 17 to Pfizer and BioNTech about their [Comirnaty](https://www.fda.gov/media/186581/download?attachment) vaccine and Moderna about its [Spikevax](https://www.fda.gov/media/186580/download?attachment) vaccine. Both [vaccines](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-critic-covid-boosters-new-top-vaccines-official-vinay-prasad/) previously carried warnings about how the risk of the heart side effects — which doctors call myocarditis (an inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart) — looked to be higher in young men, generally within the first week after vaccination. While the earlier labels specified ages 18 to 24 years old for Moderna's vaccine and 12 to 17 years old for Pfizer's, the new warning will apply to males ages 16 to 25 for both vaccines. "Following administration of the 2023-2024 Formula of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, the highest estimated incidence of myocarditis and/or pericarditis was in males 16 through 25 years of age," the FDA says in the new blanket warning it will require for both vaccines. The rate of myocarditis and pericarditis was around 8 cases per million doses for children and adults under 65 years old after use of that season's vaccines, the FDA says. The new warnings ordered by the FDA add that the "highest estimated incidence was in males 16 through 25 years of age," with a rate of 38 cases per million. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has [previously described](https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/clinical-considerations/myocarditis.html) rates of myocarditis and pericarditis as rare after COVID-19 vaccination. CDC officials told the agency's vaccine advisers [last month](https://www.cdc.gov/acip/downloads/slides-2025-04-15-16/05-Panagiotakopoulos-COVID-508.pdf#page=40) that acute myocarditis "tends to resolve quickly" after vaccination, and no increased risk had been seen in data from recent seasons in people 12 to 39 years old. It is unclear whether Pfizer or Moderna disputed the order. They had "within 30 calendar days of the date of this letter" to try to rebut the demand. Spokespeople for Moderna and Pfizer did not immediately respond to a request for comment. "Americans deserve radical transparency around the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines and the FDA is delivering on their promise to do just that. Moderna and Pfizer should take steps to ensure that individuals are aware of COVID vaccine-related adverse events resulting in myocarditis and pericarditis," Andrew Nixon, a spokesperson for the [Department of Health and Human Services](https://www.cbsnews.com/tag/united-states-department-of-health-and-human-services/), told CBS News in an email. Nixon did not explain why the letters were posted more than a month after they were written. They appeared on the FDA's website hours ahead of a [hearing](https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/hearings/the-corruption-of-science-and-federal-health-agencies-how-health-officials-downplayed-and-hid-myocarditis-and-other-adverse-events-associated-with-the-covid-19-vaccines/) organized by the Republican-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on "how health officials downplayed and hid myocarditis and other adverse events associated with the COVID-19 vaccines." Aaron Siri, an attorney who worked closely with Health and Human Services Secretary [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-interview-takeaways-measles-food-dyes-weight-loss-drugs/) [in the past](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-mitch-mcconnell-polio-vaccine/) to call on the FDA to pull COVID-19 and other vaccines and vet nominees during the transition, is among the witnesses. The FDA says the warnings were spurred by new data from the agency's safety surveillance system and results published [in October](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370\(24\)00388-2/fulltext) from scientists following up with people who developed COVID-19 vaccine-associated myocarditis. Talks about this kind of safety labeling change began before the ouster of the FDA's previous top vaccines official, Dr. Peter Marks, multiple people familiar with the situation said, but had not yet been finalized as officials wrestled with how to accurately present the findings. [Marks left the FDA](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-top-vaccine-official-peter-marks-forced-out-decries-rfk-jr-misinformation-and-lies/) on April 5. Scientists in that study followed up with people who had faced chest pain and elevated amounts of troponin in their blood, a protein that usually signals some kind of heart damage. They were predominantly young adolescent males. "While their clinical course was nearly always mild with a low prevalence and extent of cardiac dysfunction, myocardial injury was common," the scientists wrote in the study, which was co-authored by FDA officials. Similar to what the study described, the FDA's new warning also says that the heart MRI findings showed "improvement over time in most people." "It is not known if these heart MRI findings might predict long-term heart effects of myocarditis. Studies are underway to find out if there are long-term heart effects in people who have had myocarditis after receiving an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine," the FDA said. 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By Updated on: May 21, 2025 / 12:32 PM EDT / CBS News [Add CBS News on Google](https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=cbsnews.com) The [Food and Drug Administration](https://www.cbsnews.com/tag/food-and-drug-administration/) is telling Pfizer and Moderna to expand the warning labels on their [COVID-19 vaccines](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-2025-fda-seniors-clinical-trials/) about the risk of a possible heart injury side effect linked to the mRNA shots, primarily in teen boys and young men, citing findings from a study published last year and new agency data. Orders to expand the warnings were posted Wednesday by the FDA, in letters dated April 17 to Pfizer and BioNTech about their [Comirnaty](https://www.fda.gov/media/186581/download?attachment) vaccine and Moderna about its [Spikevax](https://www.fda.gov/media/186580/download?attachment) vaccine. Both [vaccines](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-critic-covid-boosters-new-top-vaccines-official-vinay-prasad/) previously carried warnings about how the risk of the heart side effects — which doctors call myocarditis (an inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart) — looked to be higher in young men, generally within the first week after vaccination. While the earlier labels specified ages 18 to 24 years old for Moderna's vaccine and 12 to 17 years old for Pfizer's, the new warning will apply to males ages 16 to 25 for both vaccines. "Following administration of the 2023-2024 Formula of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, the highest estimated incidence of myocarditis and/or pericarditis was in males 16 through 25 years of age," the FDA says in the new blanket warning it will require for both vaccines. The rate of myocarditis and pericarditis was around 8 cases per million doses for children and adults under 65 years old after use of that season's vaccines, the FDA says. The new warnings ordered by the FDA add that the "highest estimated incidence was in males 16 through 25 years of age," with a rate of 38 cases per million. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has [previously described](https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/clinical-considerations/myocarditis.html) rates of myocarditis and pericarditis as rare after COVID-19 vaccination. CDC officials told the agency's vaccine advisers [last month](https://www.cdc.gov/acip/downloads/slides-2025-04-15-16/05-Panagiotakopoulos-COVID-508.pdf#page=40) that acute myocarditis "tends to resolve quickly" after vaccination, and no increased risk had been seen in data from recent seasons in people 12 to 39 years old. It is unclear whether Pfizer or Moderna disputed the order. They had "within 30 calendar days of the date of this letter" to try to rebut the demand. Spokespeople for Moderna and Pfizer did not immediately respond to a request for comment. "Americans deserve radical transparency around the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines and the FDA is delivering on their promise to do just that. Moderna and Pfizer should take steps to ensure that individuals are aware of COVID vaccine-related adverse events resulting in myocarditis and pericarditis," Andrew Nixon, a spokesperson for the [Department of Health and Human Services](https://www.cbsnews.com/tag/united-states-department-of-health-and-human-services/), told CBS News in an email. Nixon did not explain why the letters were posted more than a month after they were written. They appeared on the FDA's website hours ahead of a [hearing](https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/hearings/the-corruption-of-science-and-federal-health-agencies-how-health-officials-downplayed-and-hid-myocarditis-and-other-adverse-events-associated-with-the-covid-19-vaccines/) organized by the Republican-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on "how health officials downplayed and hid myocarditis and other adverse events associated with the COVID-19 vaccines." Aaron Siri, an attorney who worked closely with Health and Human Services Secretary [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-interview-takeaways-measles-food-dyes-weight-loss-drugs/) [in the past](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-mitch-mcconnell-polio-vaccine/) to call on the FDA to pull COVID-19 and other vaccines and vet nominees during the transition, is among the witnesses. The FDA says the warnings were spurred by new data from the agency's safety surveillance system and results published [in October](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370\(24\)00388-2/fulltext) from scientists following up with people who developed COVID-19 vaccine-associated myocarditis. Talks about this kind of safety labeling change began before the ouster of the FDA's previous top vaccines official, Dr. Peter Marks, multiple people familiar with the situation said, but had not yet been finalized as officials wrestled with how to accurately present the findings. [Marks left the FDA](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-top-vaccine-official-peter-marks-forced-out-decries-rfk-jr-misinformation-and-lies/) on April 5. Scientists in that study followed up with people who had faced chest pain and elevated amounts of troponin in their blood, a protein that usually signals some kind of heart damage. They were predominantly young adolescent males. "While their clinical course was nearly always mild with a low prevalence and extent of cardiac dysfunction, myocardial injury was common," the scientists wrote in the study, which was co-authored by FDA officials. Similar to what the study described, the FDA's new warning also says that the heart MRI findings showed "improvement over time in most people." "It is not known if these heart MRI findings might predict long-term heart effects of myocarditis. Studies are underway to find out if there are long-term heart effects in people who have had myocarditis after receiving an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine," the FDA said. Edited by Paula Cohen In: - [COVID-19 Vaccine](https://www.cbsnews.com/tag/covid-19-vaccine/) - [COVID-19](https://www.cbsnews.com/tag/covid-19/) - [Food and Drug Administration](https://www.cbsnews.com/tag/Food-and-Drug-Administration/)

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