Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul grilled Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel on Wednesday over whether the shot is safe for teen boys, citing an increased risk of myocarditis.
The meta-analysis claims, "The level of protection against re-infection, symptomatic disease, and severe disease appears to be at least as durable, if not more so, than that provided by two-dose vaccination with the mRNA vaccines."
A case report in the medical journal Frontiers in Immunology highlights a rare case of a patient developing rheumatoid encephalitis after receiving a booster immunization of the mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine, raising concerns about potential adverse reactions to the vaccine.