[stinky613]

The part that confuses me the most is that the two 'vaccine side effects' in question are the swelling of muscles in or around the heart... But side effects of (even mild[1]) COVID infections include _damage_ to muscles in or around the heart.

It seems like halting the use of a flu vaccine because of the flu vaccine causing flu-like symptoms.

[1]https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...

[themgt]

In Iceland 95% of the most at-risk over 60 year olds are fully vaccinated and over 90% of everyone over 16 is fully or partially vaccinated. Four people total have died of COVID-19 in Iceland since the beginning of the 2021, around 1/100,000.

The evidence for negative vaccine side effects also suggests they're most prevalent in the younger, healthier population least at risk from COVID, who are also the vast majority of the few remaining Icelanders not fully vaccinated.

Given all that, when considering the potential risk/benefit of offering Pfizer and Moderna or just Pfizer, the expected upside of continuing to offer Moderna if they have any reason for concern is very small indeed.

[phillipseamore]

An important note about those deaths is that at least two of them were tourists. With Iceland's small population (370K) and high number of tourist (though just 340K Jan-Aug 2021, far from the 2 million annually in recent years) many of the metrics for Covid-19 have been skewed (tourists are at least 10% of hospitalizations etc.)

[OrvalWintermute]

Pericarditis & myocarditis are actually side effects of other vaccines too.

The difference in this case is much higher rates of peri/myo, and also, a larger amount of individuals receiving vaccinations, and, at younger ages.

[jimmygrapes]

I think you mean COVID-like symptoms.