Are Athletes Dropping Dead From the COVID Jab?

Epoch Times ^ | January 17, 2023 | Joseph Mercola

[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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[exnavy]

To make a short statement of it, yes. And many more. Bill Gates, study the things he says and does. Population reduction, to save the planet.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Agree with Dr McCullough. Had it been commotio cordis, Hamlin would not have been able to spring up to his feet and stand as the video shows. Commotio cordis is a sudden stoppage of the heart.

[logi_cal869]

If they have their way - including some FReepers - it will not only be a crime to criticize the stupid, non-whites and government, but both these and future jabs as well.

Some FReepers are so stupid. (bring it)

[Red Badger]

PING!........................

[logi_cal869]

That’s almost exactly what I stated here when I saw the video.

[ClearCase_guy]

I agree with the statistics here that show a huge increase in these deaths of athletes.

And I find it disturbing that there are “experts” and “fact checkers” out there who can whip out their own set of statistics and just wave this all away “Everything is normal”.

The system is fundamentally broken when the statistics can prove two opposite things.

[Socon-Econ]

How does the jab know it’s an athlete rather than, say, an office worker exercising at the gym?

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting, Red Badger. Life/Health BUMP!

[wildcard_redneck]

The money quote: "While the NFL enforced strict COVID jab rules for employees who have contact with players, the players and coaches were not subject to mandates. That said, 95% of players did get the shot, according to the NFL league.

The important people are exempt. The employees of Big Pharma were not mandated to get the clot shot either - they will not eat their own dog food.

[Red Badger]

[V_TWIN]

Boy you really know how to get people wound up 1st thing in the morning don’t you. Lol!

I’ll say this, if it happens again in the nfl especially if it’s in a non contact scenario such as a player just running down the field it’s gonna be hard for the nfl et al to explain away that’s for sure.

[Sicon]

"How does the jab know it’s an athlete rather than, say, an office worker exercising at the gym?"

Pretty sure it's happening there as well, there just aren't a lot of media and cameras around, and the victims aren't relatively famous.

I've seen ambulances and police outside a local gym twice in the past 6 months. I never once saw an ambulance there in the past 10 years or more (basically, as long as the gym has been there). Could be coincidence, could be the jab. I'm betting the jab.

[Red Badger]

If it happens again, say in the Superbowl, the entire vaxx and booster scheme is dead for all time.....................

[V_TWIN]

Nobody’s tracking people keeling over at the gym.....for all we know it may very well be happening.

[Georgia Girl 2]

That’s also happening. Its a death jab.

[DoodleBob]

There was an attempt to quash the "died suddenly" story last week. To be fair, some of the Citizen Reporting isn't peer reviewed, and there is an apples to oranges element of the comparison.

That said, outright dismissal is also bad form.

Here is a data-driven response:

A study Sudden Deaths in Young Competitive Athletes-Analysis of 1866 Deaths in the United States, 1980–2006 shows an average of sixty-six (66) deaths per year.

A separate global study, Sudden cardiac death in athletes: the Lausanne Recommendations lists 1101 (1966-2004) reported cases in athletes under 35 years, or an average of 29 per year.

This data set of citizen reports shows over 1,000 such deaths in 2022.

Now, these data are apples and oranges. The peer data averages may be downed-biased because the researchers didn't have Internet search capabilities back then. Also the first study is US only and the Lausanne study is global. Finally, the citizen dataset is not totally homogenous with that of the peer data, most notably on an age basis.

Thus, let's fix what we can - the age difference.

Let's take the citizen dataset, and focus on people 13-25 (the age range with the first study). Dec 2022-28 deaths, Nov 2022-39, Oct 2022-19, Sept 2022-17 , Aug 2022-about 30, July 2022-15, June 2022-22, May 2022-19, April 2022-22, March 2022-44 (that was a tough month), February 2022-17, January 2022-31.

Grand total for 2022 is 303.

That's waaaaaay more than the benchmarks. Notwithsndingnthe pros and cons to the data sets, this result should be, for people of good faith, worthy of a "hmmmmm...." and further investigation. Something is up.

Now, let's be honest: these citizen datasets suffer from a lack of consistency in data capture, recording, and processing that the benchmark data possess (though they, as noted, the benchmarks likely suffer from a reporting limitation). It's the same reason why clinical trials are so important in assessing whether or not a shot should graduate to a vaccine. Thus, nobody should do a victory lap with 303. Indeed, we are taking about young people dying - nobody should be happy.

I am also not going to claim that all of this data are prima facie evidence that the shots are causing these sudden deaths. In fact, I am hoping that the claim that zillions of shot-recipients will be dead in five years turns out to be as wrong as it is sensational.

However, considering the virtual absence of legitimate data capture with consistent recording, data scrubbing, and verification, we drink the dirty water at the oasis in this desert.

The data are compelling - SOMETHING bad is happening to youths.

Let's keep in mind, these shots were granted EUA and weren't subject to proper clinical trials, to assess long-term risks. This is especially worrying because vaccines fail trials 59% of the time and take a median of 9 years.

The fact that "scientists" simply dismiss the "died suddenly" claims without so much as ATTEMPTING to investigate the hypothesis, tells you all you need to know.

[Alberta's Child]

I work in a STEM field, and I had more than 30 credits of undergraduate science and engineering courses with laboratory components. I routinely work with statistics, and I can tell you that most of what passes for “statistical analysis” in public matters is highly error-prone at best and fraudulent at worst.

One common problem is “sample bias” or “selective sampling” when using samples to measure things over large groups.

Let’s consider average height, for example. If you measured all 330+ million Americans, you’d find that they have an average height of about 5’6”. If you took a truly random sample of 10,000 Americans, you’d probably come up with the same average height.

But if your “random” sample of 10,000 Americans only included men, you’d come up with an average height of about 5’9”.

And if your “random” sample only included men who have played basketball at least at the collegiate level, you’d come up with an average height of 6’3” or taller.

And if you are looking for incidences of health problems or other characteristics, you have to remember that the more you look for them, the more cases you will find. That’s why hospital admissions, for example, are usually a highly inaccurate method for computing the proportions of the population dealing with various health issues … because anyone who shows up at a hospital is already dealing with a problem to begin with.

[Chunga85]

The best way to make the ground more fertile for “conspiracy theories” is to shroud all of these situations in secrecy and that’s what they’ve done.

I suspect difficulties arise in keeping the families on the reservation.

[wjcsux]

In before the Branch Covidians get here.