Matt is unvaccinated against Covid-19 because his parents were worried that the vaccination could lead to myocarditis. “The reverse happened,” Ms Reyes says.
In October 2023, The Straits Times reported the Ministry of Health as saying that the incidence of vaccine-related myocarditis has remained rare, with reporting rates of one per 100,000 doses (0.001 per cent) for the monovalent vaccines and 0.4 per 100,000 doses (0.0004 per cent) for the bivalent vaccines.