Did a Teenager Die From Myocarditis After Her Second COVID Dose?

Her cause of death has not been confirmed, and there is currently no proof to suggest it was tied to the vaccine.

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A tweet from right-wing provocateur Charlie Kirk suggests the death of a 19-year-old in Illinois is related to her receiving the coronavirus vaccine.

Notorious spreaders of coronavirus and vaccine misinformation Alex Berenson and Robert Kennedy Jr. made the same claim as well. 

Simone Scott was a student at Northwestern University who passed away on June 11 following pneumonia-related issues after receiving a heart transplant in May. Scott had graduated from Mason High School in Ohio, and the school district said in a post on Facebook: “This weekend we learned that Simone passed away following what was suspected as being a virus (not COVID) attack (sic) her heart a few weeks ago, which resulted in her receiving a heart transplant.” Cincinnati NBC affiliate WLWT 5 reported that Scott had received her second COVID vaccine shot on May 1.

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  1. Raincheck

    When 170 million Americans have gotten the vaccine, we will see people who have gotten the vaccine die of….. just about everything. Just as we will see the roughly equal number of unvaccinated people die of…. just about everything.

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    1. Nicco

      The only thing you won’t see vaccinated people dying of is Covid…

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        George.Skinner

        You'll probably see some of that too, unfortunately. Vaccines don't always work, and the anti-vaxxers will seize on that as a line of attack as well.

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    2. Brett

      Miocarditis is a physiological response. The fact that it is rare and mostly benign does not mean we should ignore it. I took my shots but I'd like some more data on the kids especially those with existing heart problems before forcing the unwilling to take it.

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  2. Alex DeLarge

    This is a garbage "fact check." The claim is that this person died shortly after her vax shot. That claim is indisputably "True."

    Even if you rewrite the claim as that she died "because of" the vax, the verdict would be: "Maybe True."

    Instead the whole piece is a lot of blah, blah, blah pro-vax propaganda. It's especially egregious because we've been lectured for a year that everyone who died after contracting the 'rona died because of it. Will The Dispatch now fact check those claims as false? Hell no.

    "Fact checks" are the lowest form of propaganda. This column is a never-ending embarrassment to The Dispatch.

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    1. Matt C

      With all due respect, read the statement it is fact checking more carefully.

      It isn't, as you said, a fact check of whether she died after getting the shot. The title is, "Did a Teenager Die From Myocarditis After Her Second COVID Dose?" It specifies the cause of death. As the article covers, it is not at all clear that it is true that she died of myocarditis. The claim is not indisputably 'true'.

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    Pat Riot

    Easily 200 million Americans who have taken the vaccine will die someday.

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  4. Brett

    Thanks for this. Just as some context, it ROUTINELY happens that medical professionals mistreat and accidentally hurt or kill young people with heart conditions because they treat them like any other patient. CHD parents are very sensitive to this even to the point of avoiding calling for an ambulance and going to the heart specialty hospital rather than the closest one in an emergency. If this young person was forced by her educational institution to take the vaccine to stay in school notwithstanding a heart condition - with CDC investigating degree of link with myocarditis (i.e., what appears to be a physiological response even if most often benign) - that's a real tragedy.

    I say that though to clarify that you shouldn't assume it is all vaccine skeptics or tribal loyalties moving feelings on this point. The heart defect parent community trust THEIR doctors but they don't trust non-specialist medical professionals at all, and that isn't new or vax-related. The reality is Fauci isn't actually qualified to comment on whether kids with CHD should take the vaccine - only their cardiologists and surgeons have that qualification.

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