Teen who had heart attack after vaccine dose to receive $225,000
The 16-year-old teenager who suffered a heart attack six days after receiving his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech/Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine will be eligible for a one-time financial assistance of $225,000.
This will be provided under Singapore’s Vaccine Injury Financial Assistance Programme (VIFAP), said the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Monday (16 August) in a press statement.
Wait… what?? A program for vaccine injury financial assistance? What a concept. Maybe we should try that here.
It added that medical investigations have found that the youth had developed acute severe myocarditis which led to the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
“The myocarditis was likely a serious adverse event arising from the COVID-19 vaccine he received, which might have been aggravated by his strenuous lifting of weights and his high consumption of caffeine through energy drinks and supplements,” it said.
The teenager is currently “recovering steadily” and undergoing inpatient rehabilitation, the MOH added.
Just a reminder that the vaccine has been prone to cause heart and blood issues in some.
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