Scott received her second dose of Moderna on May 1, WLWT 5 reported. When the 2020 Mason High School graduate and senior class vice president paid a surprise visit to her parents for Motherâs Day, May 9, her mother said she noticed Scott wasnât feeling well.
âI did notice she was kind of stuffy so her voice wasnât exactly the same,â Valerie Kraimer said.
Scott returned to campus on May 11, where even after a visit to the doctor, her condition worsened. Kraimer said multiple tests came back negative including a COVID-19 test.
Scottâs parents were hundreds of miles away so her father called campus police to have someone check in on her.
âWe learned that a doctor had to jump on her chest and give her CPR because she was that bad, and then the whole cascade of events happened, Kraimer said. âThey had to intubate her and realized she was in heart failure.â
After multiple interventions, including hooking Scott to an ECMO machine that mirrors the function of the heart so her own heart could rest, doctors determined she needed a heart replacement. Her doctors have not fully confirmed the cause of her death, but they said it appears Scott suffered from myocarditis.
Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle that can lead to cardiac arrhythmia and death. According to researchers at the National Organization for Rare Disorders, myocarditis can result from infections, but âmore commonly the myocarditis is a result of the bodyâs immune reaction to the initial heart damage.â
The university told students Scott died from complications after undergoing a heart transplant. âScottâs death came weeks after a heart complication in May, which led to a heart transplant,â The Daily Northwestern reported.
Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson said in a thread posted June 14, the Northwestern journalism student âsuffered a case of apparent myocarditis-induced heart failure on Sunday, May 16. Despite extraordinary measures to save her, including a heart transplant, she died Friday morning at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.â
THREAD
19-year-old Simone Scott was excited to get her second dose of @moderna_txâs #Covid vaccine on May 1.
Now her mother Valerie Kraimer is arranging her funeral. pic.twitter.com/BOAwSynrFz
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) June 14, 2021
âDoctors appear to have repeatedly missed signals as Scottâs condition worsened in the two weeks following her second shot â before she abruptly crashed,â Berenson said.
Scott received the COVID vaccine on her own accord, but her university now mandates students be fully vaccinated before returning to campus, The College Fix reported.
âI still feel like sheâs here, even though I know that sheâs not and it just feels like such a waste,â Kraimer said.
Scottâs parents are still waiting on multiple tests on her heart to come back in the hope they will learn why they lost their daughter so suddenly.
As The Defender reported June 11, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will convene an emergency meeting of its advisers on June 18 to discuss higher-than-expected reports of heart inflammation following doses of Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines.
The CDC said during a June 10 meeting of the U.S. Food and Drug Administrationâs (FDA) Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee the agency had identified 226 reports of heart inflammation that might meet its âworking case definitionâ of myocarditis and pericarditis following the shots, The Defender reported last week.
According to the CDC, a total of 475 cases of myocarditis or pericarditis were recorded in patients 30 and younger who received an mRNA vaccine. The median age of people with myocarditis or pericarditis following the first dose was 30, and after the second-dose, 24.
The CDCâs Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) revealed 900 cases of myocarditis and pericarditis, among all age groups reported in the U.S following COVID vaccination between Dec.14, 2020 and June 4, 2021. Of the 900 cases reported, 533 cases were attributed to Pfizer, 331 cases to Moderna and 32 cases to J&Jâs COVID vaccine.
Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, deputy director of the CDCâs Immunization Safety Office said during the June 10 FDA hearing there had been a higher-than-expected number of cases of heart inflammation among young people recently vaccinated with their second doses of mRNA vaccine.
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CDC data showed 196 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis among 18- to 24-year-olds through May 31, compared with an expected rate of between eight and 83 cases.
Among 16- to 17-year-olds, 79 cases of myocarditis and pericarditis were reported through May 31. The expected rate among people in this age group is between two and 19 cases, Shimabukuro said during his presentation.
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