After a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel this week deemed COVID-19 more dangerous to kids than the vaccine to prevent it, Michigan health authorities reported to the agency that a 13-year-old boy died within days of receiving the shot.

The Saginaw County Health Department said Thursday that it received a death notice from the medical examiner June 17 that the boy had died three days after receiving the second of the two vaccine doses. Federal officials are now exploring whether his death is linked to the vaccine.

“Loss of life in an adolescent for any reason is heartbreaking,” the Saginaw County Health Department said in a statement, adding that Health Officer Chris Harrington and medical director Delicia Pruitt “are mothers of children near the boy’s age, so it hits close to home for them.”

The announcement about the boy’s death came just after a CDC vaccine advisory panel met this week to consider reports of heart inflammation in adolescents, teens and young adults after being vaccinated. Saginaw County health officials did not indicate whether the boy had suffered heart inflammation or any other health condition, and did not respond to further questions about his death.

The health department said that because the boy was recently vaccinated, his death was reported by the medical examiner to the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

The reported cases of myocarditis and pericarditis occurred more often in boys and within days after the second shot. The CDC panel did not indicate that there had been any reports of death in those cases.

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