COVID Vaccine Preprint Study Prompts Twitter Outrage

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A preprint study finding that the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID vaccine is associated with an increased risk for cardiac adverse events in teenage boys has elicited a firestorm on Twitter. 

Although some people issued thoughtful critiques, others lobbed insults against the authors, and still others accused them of either being anti-vaccine or stoking the fires of the vaccine skeptic movement.

For the complete story, click on the following link: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/958778?uac=209076CT&faf=1&sso=true&impID=3641968&src=mkm_covid_update_210915_MSCPEDIT

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