Committee also looked at evidence on a very rare set of conditions called myocarditis and pericarditis, associated with the messenger mRNA vaccines, and the Moderna vaccine is an mRNA vaccine like the Pfizer one, and based on experience of hundreds of thousands, hundreds of millions I should say, of doses given overseas, it appears that while this condition is rare and tends to occur more often in younger men, it’s generally transient, most of it resolves through rest, in some patients does require observation and treatment in hospital.
When you look at the overall benefits versus the risks, the benefits significantly exceed, so yet another step in Australia’s campaign to vaccinate the nation.
