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. 2022 Nov 15;38(12):532–540. doi: 10.1007/s40267-022-00956-0

Table 5.

Excess myocarditis cases in younger people after receiving the second dose of an mRNA vaccine in European database analyses [2, 3, 7, 10]

Population analysed (vaccine-symptom interval) Population subgroup Excess cases per million dosesa
BNT162b2 mRNA-1273
23.1 million people, 81% vaccinated by study end, in 4 Nordic countries; December 2020 to October 2021 (28d) [7] All men 6.7 49.7
Men aged 16–24 yrs 55.5 183.9
Men aged 25–39 yrs 5.9 80.1
All women 0.9 4.8
Women aged 16–24 yrs 5.7 No data
50 million vaccinated people, equal to 88% of population aged ≥ 12 y, vs controls in France; April to October 2021 (7 d) [10] Male adolescents aged 12–17 yrs 19 Not yet approved
Men 18–24 aged yrs 47 170
Women 18–24 aged yrs 6 53
European Medicines Agency (7 d)b [2, 3] Men 12–29 aged yrs 27 132
European Medicines Agency (28 d)b [2, 3] Men 16–24 aged yrs 56 188

BNT162b2 Pfizer BioNTech BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine, mRNA-1273 Moderna mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine

aExtrapolated from cases per 10,000 or 100,000 doses

bStudy details not reported