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19-Year-Old College Freshman Dies From Heart Problem One Month After Second Dose of Moderna Vaccine<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Simone Scott underwent a heart transplant one month after developing what her doctors believe was myocarditis following her second dose of Moderna. She received the second vaccine May 1 and died June 11.<\/em><\/h3>\n

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By Megan Redshaw
\nDefender<\/p>\n

Simone Scott, a 19-year-old freshman at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., died June 11<\/a> of complications from a heart transplant she underwent after developing what her doctors believe was myocarditis following her second dose of the Moderna COVID vaccine.<\/p>\n

Scott received her second dose of Moderna<\/a> on May 1, WLWT 5 reported<\/a>. When the 2020 Mason High School graduate and senior class vice president paid a surprise visit to her parents for Mother\u2019s Day, May 9, her mother said she noticed Scott wasn\u2019t feeling well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did notice she was kind of stuffy so her voice wasn\u2019t exactly the same,\u201d Valerie Kraimer said.<\/p>\n

Scott returned to campus on May 11, where even after a visit to the doctor, her condition worsened. Kraimer said<\/a> multiple tests came back negative including a COVID-19 test.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Sunday morning [May 16], she texted her father and said, \u2018Dad, I feel so dizzy. I cannot get out of bed\u2019 and that\u2019s when everything really started from there,\u201d Kraimer said.<\/p>\n

Scott\u2019s parents were hundreds of miles away so her father called campus police to have someone check in on her.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe 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<\/a>. \u201cThey had to intubate her and realized she was in heart failure.\u201d<\/p>\n

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<\/a> the cause of her death, but they said it appears Scott suffered from myocarditis.<\/p>\n

Myocarditis<\/a> is inflammation of the heart muscle that can lead to cardiac arrhythmia and death. According to researchers<\/a> at the National Organization for Rare Disorders, myocarditis can result from infections, but \u201cmore commonly the myocarditis is a result of the body\u2019s immune reaction to the initial heart damage.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The university told students Scott died from complications after undergoing a heart transplant. \u201cScott\u2019s death came weeks after a heart complication in May, which led to a heart transplant,\u201d The Daily Northwestern<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson said in a thread<\/a> posted June 14, the Northwestern journalism student \u201csuffered 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.\u201d<\/p>\n