MSNBC blames myopericarditis diagnosis on common cold
An MSNBC anchor who was diagnosed with both pericarditis and myocarditis and spent nine days in the hospital is blaming her near-death experience on the common cold.
Pericarditis occurs when the fluid-filled sac around the heart becomes inflamed, while myocarditis is when inflammation occurs in the heart muscle itself.
Yasmin Vossoughian returned to the air Sunday after a few weeks’ absence and shared details about “a health scare” she experienced last month.
The 44-year-old told viewers that prior to the incident, she was running seven miles a day, did yoga, didn’t smoke, was vegetarian, drank in moderation and was a “pretty healthy person”.
But on December 20th, Vossoughian began suffering chest pains which gradually became worse over the next ten days. Her husband took her to the emergency room where she was told she had “reflux”.
“I didn’t really buy it, but I was relieved it wasn’t my heart,” said the weekend anchor. “My body, though, was pretty certain not to believe the reflux.”
The next day, she woke up with pain in her chest and left shoulder and felt a tightening in her chest when she took deep breaths.
“My husband drove me to the emergency room, and from there, the nightmare that has been my January began,” she said.
The TV host was diagnosed with inflammation of the lining of her heart, or pericarditis, a known side effect of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines as confirmed by both the FDA and CDC.
Vossoughian boasted in April 2021 that she was vaccinated and praised her husband for waiting eight hours in the cold for the vaccine. She hosted segments on the need for child vaccinations and children getting vaccinated without parental consent.
But Vossoughian says the pericarditis was “brought on by a virus, a literal common cold”.
The doctors drained fluid from her heart and she was released four days later.
But three days later, Vossoughian was hospitalized again, this time for myocarditis, another well-known side effect of the COVID-19 vaccines confirmed by health agencies around the world. She spent five days in the hospital.
This, too, Vossoughian blamed on the cold, which she claimed “caused all of the inflammation in and around my heart”.
Perhaps sensing her claim was outrageous, the MSNBC anchor felt the need to bring her cardiologist, Dr. Greg Katz, on the air to confirm that the body can develop myopericarditis in response to a cold. Dr. Katz confirmed that he is seeing pericarditis “more this year than other years”.
“It’s not unheard of — it’s rare, but not the rarest,” said Dr. Katz unsurely.
In a tweet accompanying the story, MSNBC wrote: “How Yasmin Yossoughian's cold turned into myocarditis — and how you can keep an eye out for symptoms too.”
