MSNBC News host Yasmin Vossoughian described how she suffered first pericarditis and then … [+] myocarditis not too long after she had had a common cold. (Photo by Prince Williams/WireImage)WireImageAfter having what she described as a “common cold,” MSNBC News Host Yasmin Vossoughian suffered a very cold and uncommon situation: developing pericarditis followed by myocarditis. In a MSNBC News segment, the 44-year old described her harrowing experience that required two hospital stays and explained how it emphasized the need to “listen to your body…The only person who knows how you feel or what you are feeling or when you need help is you.” Yet, soon after her revelation, some folks on social media acted as if they knew more about Vossoughian’s body than she did. Although neither she nor Greg Katz, MD, the cardiologist who took care of her at New York University (NYU) Langone Hospital, mentioned the Covid-19 vaccine on the MSNBC segment, surprise, surprise, you still quickly saw claims on social media that Covid-19 vaccines were somehow to blame for her condition.
Her ordeal began on December 20, 2022, with chest pain that “waxed and waned.” Ten days later, she visited urgent care where she was told that she had gastroesophageal reflux. She said that she “didn’t really buy it. But I was relieved that it wasn’t my heart,” as she described in the following MSNBC news segment:
As you can see, she went on to say, “My body, though, was pretty certain not to believe the reflux. The next day, on December 30, I woke up with severe pains both in my chest and in m …