Posted on 01/17/2023 6:01:57 AM PST by Red Badger
Despite ‘fact’ checkers’ best efforts to dismiss it as normal, the number of people in this group who died suddenly between January and April 2022 was 1,696% above the historical monthly norm. Is this the deadly combo that’s causing it?
STORY AT-A-GLANCE Over the past two years (2021 and 2022), more than 1,650 professional and amateur athletes have collapsed due to cardiac events and 1,148 of them proved fatal
Damar Hamlin, a 24-year-old Buffalo Bills football player went into cardiac arrest on live television after making a tackle during a January 2, 2023, game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Team trainers and emergency medical staff performed CPR for more than nine minutes, which saved his life
Whether the COVID jab played a role in what happened to Hamlin is impossible to know for sure, but Dr. Peter McCullough suspects it may have played a role — provided he actually got the shot
A condition called commotio cordis is known to occur in baseball when a player is hit hard on the breastbone, thereby causing cardiac arrest. There are approximately 20 to 30 such cases each year, but never in pro football. In McCullough’s view, commotio cordis can likely be ruled out. The more likely cause for Hamlin’s cardiac arrest, he believes, is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), or abnormal thickening of the heart muscle, which is the primary cause for athletes suffering cardiac arrest
During exercise, adrenaline is pumping, and when the heart is damaged this adrenaline rush is what triggers the cardiac arrest. This helps explain not only the death of athletes on the field, or people dying while jogging, but also why so many are dying in their sleep, because adrenaline is released between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m., as your body readies to wake up
With every passing day, the list of people suffering tragic consequences from the COVID mRNA shots grows longer. As of December 23, 2022, the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) had received 33,334 reports of post-jab deaths, 26,045 cases of myocarditis and 15,970 heart attacks.1
Many of these people and their stories have remained hidden from public view as social media have universally censored these stories. As a result, people who only read mainstream media are largely unaware of the damage being done. However, there is a population of people whose injuries and deaths have been far more public.
Over the past two years (2021 through 2022), more than 1,6502,3,4,5,6,7 professional and amateur athletes have collapsed due to cardiac events and 1,1488 of them proved fatal. In his book “Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022,”9 Edward Dowd writes extensively about the anomalous number of deaths now occurring among athletes, which, despite “fact checkers” best efforts to dismiss it as “normal,”10,11 is anything but.
What Happened to Damar Hamlin?
More than likely, you’ve heard that Damar Hamlin, a 24-year-old Buffalo Bills football player went into cardiac arrest on live television after making a tackle during a January 2, 2023, game against the Cincinnati Bengals.12,13 Team trainers and emergency medical staff performed CPR for more than nine minutes, which saved his life. After initially being placed in a medically-induced coma, Hamlin was reportedly on the mend within a week.1
Whether the COVID jab played a role in what happened to Hamlin is impossible to know for sure. Looking at the replays, it’s clear he took a very severe hit right to the chest right before his collapse, and this certainly could have caused the heart attack. At bare minimum, it’s not unheard of. Former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker had a similar incident in 2017, as did hockey legend Chris Pronger in 1998.15
On the other hand, it’s also not inconceivable that the COVID jab — if Hamlin was in fact “vaxxed” — could have affected his heart, thereby playing a contributing role. We now know the COVID shot is associated with a significantly elevated risk of myocarditis, which in turn raises the risk of sudden cardiac death in contact sports.16
While the NFL enforced strict COVID jab rules for employees who have contact with players, the players and coaches were not subject to mandates.17,18 That said, 95% of players did get the shot, according to the NFL league.19
Cardiologist Offers His View
In a January 4, 2023, Children’s Health Defense interview, Dr. Peter McCullough, a cardiologist and internist, reviewed what could have happened in Hamlin’s case. As noted by McCullough, a condition called commotio cordis (Latin for “agitation of the heart”) is known to occur in baseball when a player is hit hard on the breastbone, thereby causing cardiac arrest. There are approximately 20 to 30 such cases each year.
However, no such case has ever occurred in 100 years of pro football. Football players have padding that protects the breastbone, so in McCullough’s view, commotio cordis can likely be ruled out. The more likely cause for Hamlin’s cardiac arrest, he believes, is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), or abnormal thickening of the heart muscle, which is the primary cause for athletes suffering cardiac arrest.
The reason why HCM is the No. 1 cause of cardiac arrest in professional athletes is because it causes few if any symptoms and often goes undiagnosed. Professional athletes undergo extensive medical evaluation and cardiovascular screening20 before being given the green-light to play, and they also constitute the healthiest segment of society in general,21 so most heart problems are ruled out before they ever enter the field.
“The elephant in the room,” however, according to McCullough, is the COVID jab. Before these shots were rolled out, the average number of cardiac arrests in all European soccer and football leagues combined was 29 per year. Since the advent of the COVID shots, 1,598 European pro athletes have suffered cardiac arrest, giving us a comparative annual tally of nearly 800. Of those 1,598 cardiac arrests, 1,101 were fatal.
McCullough detailed these and other stats in a December 17, 2022, letter to the editor of the Journal of Scandinavian Immunology. The paper was co-authored by Panagis Polykretis, Ph.D., a researcher at the Institute of Applied Physics, which is part of the Italian National Research Council.22 McCullough and Polykretis have been, and still are, calling for a proper investigation of these deaths.
McCullough Suspects COVID Jab-Induced Myocarditis
McCullough and Polykretis suspect COVID jab-induced myocarditis is the explanation for this otherwise inconceivable increase in cardiac arrests among athletes, and McCullough believes it also tops the list of potential reasons for Hamlin’s cardiac arrest, considering 95% of NFL players had received the jab as of March 2022.23
McCullough cites research showing about 2.5% of COVID jab recipients sustain heart damage, 90% of them being men. And, in about half of all jab-related myocarditis cases, there are no symptoms to alert you there might be a problem. As explained by McCullough, myocarditis causes scarring on the heart, and it is this scarring that causes an abnormal electrical rhythm (ventricular tachycardia) and sudden adult death syndrome.
There are now more than 200 scientific papers on jab-related myocarditis. A January 2023 study24 in the European Journal of Pediatrics found high levels of circulating spike protein in 16 male high school students hospitalized with myocarditis induced by the shots, which again suggests the spike protein your body produces is a key pathogenic factor.
McCullough explains in greater detail how the shot may have triggered Hamlin’s cardiac arrest: During play, adrenaline is pumping, and when the heart is damaged this adrenaline rush is what triggers the cardiac arrest.
This helps explain not only the death of athletes on the field, or people dying while jogging, but also why so many are dying in their sleep, because adrenaline is released between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m., as your body readies to wake up.
1,696% Increase in Sudden Death Among Athletes
Whatever caused Hamlin’s cardiac arrest — and hopefully a careful medical investigation after his recovery will clarify what happened — there’s no doubt that athletes in general are dying in far greater numbers now than ever before.
The number of athletes who ‘died suddenly’ between January 2021 and April 2022 was 1,696% above the historical monthly norm between 1966 and 2004 — 42 per month compared to just 2.35 per month. In related news, a November 2022 report25 by The Exposé showed the number of athletes who “died suddenly” between January 2021 and April 2022 was 1,696% above the historical monthly norm26 between 1966 and 2004 — 42 per month compared to just 2.35 per month.
The following graph illustrates the rise in recorded athlete collapses and deaths between January 2021, the month the COVID shots started to roll out, and April 2022.
As noted by The Exposé:27
“In all between Jan 21 and April 22, a total number of 673 athletes were known to have died. This number could, however, be much higher. So that’s 428 less than the number to have died between 1966 and 2004. The difference here though is that the 1,101 deaths occurred over 39 years, whereas 673 recent deaths occurred over 16 months …
The yearly average number of deaths between 1966 and 2004 equates to 28. January 2022 saw three times as many athlete deaths than this previous annual average, as did March 2022. So this is obviously highly indicative of a problem.
The 2021 total equates to 394 deaths, 14x higher than the 1966 to 2004 annual average. The Jan to April 2022 total, a period of 4 months, equates to 279 deaths, 9.96x higher than the annual average between 1966 and 2004.
However, if we divide the 66 to 04 annual average by 3 to make it equivalent to the first four months’ worth of deaths in 2022, we get 9.3 deaths. So in effect, by April 2022, deaths among athletes were 10x higher than the expected rate …
[B]etween 1966 and 2004. the monthly average number of deaths equates to 2.35. But between January 2021 and April 2022, the monthly average equates to 42. This is an increase of 1,696%.”
Risk of Cardiovascular Damage Soars After Second Shot A nearly 1,700% increase in sudden cardiac-related death among athletes is inexplicable unless you take the experimental COVID jabs into account. Research28 published in November 2021 found inflammatory markers — signs of cardiovascular damage — rose dramatically after the second COVID shot, and the risk of heart attacks and other heart-related problems more than doubled in the months following these injections.
Pre-jab, patients had an 11% five-year risk of heart attack. Post-jab, that risk rose to 25%, a 227% increase in risk. As reported by The Exposé, other statistics also reveal heart damage has become ubiquitous among those who got one or more mRNA jabs:29
“Acute cardiac failure rates are now 475 times the normal baseline rate in VAERS. Tachycardia rates are 7,973 times the baseline rate. Acute myocardial infarction is 412 times the baseline rate.
The rates of internal hemorrhage, peripheral artery thrombosis, and coronary artery occlusion are all over 300 times the baseline rate … It doesn’t take a genius to work out that COVID-19 vaccination is the reason the monthly average number of athlete deaths was 1,700% higher than the expected rate by April 2022.”
Sudden Death: The No. 1 Cause of Death for Under 65s in 2021 In late December 2022, Steve Kirsch also published data showing the shots are a public health disaster.30 According to the results of a survey Kirsch conducted, “sudden death” was the No. 1 cause of death in 2021 and 2022 among Americans under 65 who had received the COVID shot.
The second and third causes of death in this group were cardiac-related death and cancer respectively. Importantly, the incidence of turbo-charged cancer among the jabbed was also significant, and myocarditis killed more than COVID-19.
Among the unjabbed, the primary cause of death for people 65 and younger in 2021 and 2022 was hospital treatment for COVID. Incidences of sudden death, pulmonary embolism and turbo-charged cancers were all low, and there were no unknown causes of death, nor any myocarditis deaths.
Kirsch summarized the three most stunning differences between the jabbed and unjabbed as follows:31
“Sudden death rates are off the charts for the vaccinated cf. unvaccinated for those <65 … It’s the #1 cause of death for this age group …
Myocarditis as a cause of death is registering now for both age ranges but only for the vaccinated …
Cardiac issues as a cause of death in vaccinated young people (<65) are significantly elevated vs. their unvaxxed peers.”
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Exactly.
Exactly.
Often, what is most telling is not what they say or do but what they don’t say or do.
I don’t remember hearing that players were exempt. I believe that Cole Beasley and Aaron Rogers are the only two players that didn’t take the shot - and they had to fight not to take it.
RE: Hamlin: Does anyone think is weird that there is NO press coverage of him leaving the hospital or of his arrival at his parents’ home? How many seriously hurt pro players have not been recorded victoriously leaving hospital? Hamlin ONLY texts and no visitors are allowed. Something is weird here.
The athletes are probably just the more visible victims. Also the ‘suddenly’ dead. There are probably millions more ‘injured.’I read a report out of the UK that said autopsies are becoming a rare thing as “excess deaths’ are causing mortuaries to overflow. They are calculating 50K ‘excess deaths’ in the last year. I suspect that is an under-count.
Grand total for 2022 is 303.
Interesting.
The other studies you referenced both looked at young, competitive athletes who died of very specific sudden cardiac events. And who's cases were well documented in the medical system.
On the other hand, the "citizen reports" you reference are, shall we say, less selective:
"This means that provided a person is reasonably fit, healthy and does some athletic activity, rather than an unfit “couch potato,” then they can be included in this list. Needless to say, these are only the persons reported to us by readers or that we discovered during research. Also note that almost all of these have been reported in the media."
A quick scan of the most recent entries shows quite a diversity of causes of death. "Unknown" is by far the most common but just in the last several months we also have:
liver disease
autoimmune disorder
cancer
Hodgkin's lymphoma
brain aneurysm
sepis from Strep A
hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
pneumonia
"an illness"
mononucleosis
leukemia
"following brain surgery"
...
These are being compared to a very selective subset of deaths from a specific cardiac anomaly..
The data are compelling...
Uh, no.
Exactly doodlebob. While anecdotal evidence does not scientific facts make, there comes a time when anecdotal evidences need to be taken seriously because a new trend is being established. I. This case, young people are dropping over, and “it appears that” it is I creasing in frequency.
IF this is truly,increasing, the scientists should be alarmed and start to take th8s issue very seriously.
We used to,be a nation that took people’s health very seriously, such as inmthe case of the diet pill that was killing people, fen Phan I think it was called? The product was yanked off the shelves when it was discovered that a few people were dying from it. Far fewer died from the diet drug tha. Have died from vaccines for covid (if that is what is causing g the deaths, and it appears that it is), yet the propaganda dists, scientists and medical establishment are doing everything they can to resist looking into,the actual cause objectively.
Not only are they resisting, but they are attacking anyone that suggests that it needs to be Investigated.
We used to take people’s health seriously- made it a priority, but these days politics seems to,have really marred the process, and a shocking disregard for life seems to have taken over.
We will never know how many researchers and medical professionals who pushed the vsccines on us refused to take the vaccines themselves because of their suspicion of it
The shot was to be injected intramuscularly so the mRNA would stay in the muscle.
Unfortunately, unskilled persons were pressed into service as nurses and the shots were not aspirated (back draw to ensure in muscle, not blood vessel).
Males, especially athletes, have larger blood vessels so more often the mRNA went into the blood vessels and became widely distributed and, not surprisingly, found the heart where the production of spike proteins caused myocarditis.
Hope that helps.
While about 43% of these cases hit folks under 36 years of age, only 7% of the deaths occur in this age bracket.
Thanks again.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla’s bioweapon takes another? Suddenly?
I tell my wife this is the reason I don’t exercise or work too hard. Course I have not been jabbed.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla’s bioweapon takes another? Suddenly?
He needs a dose of his own medicine.....................
This is not exclusively a myocarditis problem. My cousin’s 13 year old son who was very healthy and athletic collapsed while practicing at school. He had a massive stroke. Both my cousin and his wife are college professors, they made made the poor kid get the shot and deny that it had anything to do with it.
Not sure if one can say that the system is broken because statistics blah blah ...
Statistical results are utterly dependent on the amount and quality of input. Since this is a well known property of statistics, the real science is setting up the input to a statistical study so the results favor the opinion of the guy paying the bill.
I had this argument with my stat professor several times. My opinion was that it is ridiculous to say that if I solicit 213 opinions on a subject, get a result, then say that the majority opinion is the opinion of everyone in the USA. So I called Bullshiite which is probably why I got a ‘C’.
I think I see the problem...........................
Watch ANECDOTALS. One hour and twenty-two minutes. Well worth it.
Welcome semimojo. I am sorry to see that you are the one who drew the short straw this morning. Defending the indefensible slaughter of those who trusted the narrative even with the assistance of Google, Fauci, the FDA and CDC is a thankless job that I hope that you are being well compensated for.
Good advice, except that in the case of an athlete who drops over dead from some sort of weird clot like structure blocking an artery in his heart or a bulging aorta that bursts... CPR will likely be no help. This is from someone who performed a lot of CPR during his career and in many cases did it all the way to the hospital in the back of an ambulance or rescue unit. In many cases these kids are dead by the time they hit the ground and nothing will be bringing them back.
My cousin's 13 year old who dropped on the field at school received CPR and he survived, but that is because he had a massive stoke and not a heart problem.
I was a nationally ranked athlete when I was a young person and traveled all over the country to completions and to places like the Olympic Training Center. And I have followed related athletic events since that time. Typically, the incidence of this type of thing has been so rare that most people were never even aware that it happened. Almost young person that I knew or was aware of who died suddenly during an athletic competition went down because of some type of head injury. How many examples of that have we heard about in the last couple of years?
Temporary Morgues are Being Built Across UK Due to Unprecedented Increase in Excess Deaths
The Gateway Pundit
January 15, 2023
By Jim Hoft
The unprecedented increase in deaths has prompted the construction of temporary morgues in various locations throughout the UK, including tourist hotspots and airports.
Top British cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a highly esteemed, award-winning NHS consultant cardiologist, stated that the deaths were likely linked to the experimental mRNA COVID vaccines.
A recent report claimed 50,000 excess deaths were reported in 2022 compared to a normal year. The excess deaths in the UK last year was the worst in 50 years.
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