UK Health Regulator Failed to Warn About COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects, Claim MPs

A cross-party group of MPs has claimed the UK’s drug safety regulator failed to mention in 2021 that the COVID-19 vaccines carry risks of myocarditis and pericarditis. On Feb. 22, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Pandemic Response and Recovery published a letter it had sent in December to the Health and Social Care Committee raising serious concerns about the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and patient safety. The letter, which was addressed to Conservative MP Steve Brine, said that there “is reason to believe the MHRA was aware of a signal for post-vaccination myocarditis and pericarditis in February 2021.” It said, however, that it “failed to mention myocarditis or pericarditis in safety updates in April, May and June, only alerting the public on June 25, supposedly ‘following a thorough review of extremely rare reports of myocarditis and pericarditis after COVID-19 vaccination.'”...