Death after Spikevax booster prompts new myocarditis warning
A TGA panel has recommended updates to product information after a young woman’s death
A woman in her 20s has died after receiving a booster dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, prompting stronger warnings about myocarditis risk.
The death is the first in Australia to be linked to mRNA vaccination.
In a vaccine safety report last month, the TGA said the woman died from myocarditis likely related to the booster dose she had received a few weeks earlier, given the absence of other apparent causes and the timing of her symptoms.
However, other “complicating factors” might have contributed, the regulator noted.
