Posted on 01/07/2023 7:29:42 AM PST by shadowlands1960
CLAIM: Two researchers found that more than 1,500 athletes have suffered cardiac arrest since COVID-19 vaccinations began, compared to a previous average of 29 athletes per year, suggesting the vaccines are causing a dramatic rise in such cardiac issues.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The researchers cited a number from a blog that lists news stories about recent deaths and medical emergencies among people of all ages, from all over the world — some of which were attributed to other causes, such as cancer. The previous figure, meanwhile, is from a 2006 study that specifically reviewed literature for reports of sudden cardiac deaths among athletes under age 35. Comparing the two sources, with different methodologies, is not scientifically sound, experts told The Associated Press.
THE FACTS: Following Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest during a game Monday, social media posts and Fox News gave air to a long-circulating and faulty narrative that COVID-19 vaccines are causing a dramatic increase in athlete deaths.
“Cardiologist Peter McCullough and researcher Panagis Polykretis looked into this trend in Europe, European sports leagues. They found that prior to COVID and the COVID-19 vaccines there were roughly 29 cardiac arrests in those European sports leagues per year,” Fox’s Tucker Carlson claimed in a segment Tuesday night. “Since the vax campaign began, there have been more than 1,500 total cardiac arrests in those leagues and two-thirds of those were fatal.”
Carlson was in fact referencing a letter, not a rigorous study, that McCullough and Polykretis published in a Scandinavian journal in late 2022.
That letter does claim that “1598 athletes suffered cardiac arrest, 1101 of which with deadly outcome” between January 2021 and late 2022 — but it simply cites a blog, goodsciencing.com, for that figure.
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My rule—I never take medical advice from people who want to reduce world population!
It doesn’t need to do any work. All it has to do is slip the names ‘Tucker Carlson’ and ‘FOX News’ in there and mission accomplished... all these stories are just rightwing propaganda... not the good leftwing variety...
“Baselessly” is a lot more challenging to say than “debunked.” I’m surprised a modern “journalist” could get all the “s” letter right. It’s nearly as bad as Mississippi.
Why the change to the more difficult word?
I think that’s why the game was cancelled. To keep a lid on this thing.
Sports stars often have millions of followers on various “platforms”. None of them can leave the reservation and ask simple, obvious questions.
Medical “experts” aren’t asking this either, inexplicably. It looks desperate.
Eh? Pee!
Which is about what they’re worth.
Exactly. It says, essentially, you are not a government approved source, therefore you are not trustworthy!
"Science" my ass.
Fixed it-
AP baselessly claims athlete deaths linked to Covid vaccines are baseless.
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I will only trust that claim if the ap fact checks it lol.
Seriously, if ghat claim is true, vaccine makers have a lot of explaining tk do. They shouldn’t be allowed to run from the facts!
Fact check: True.
A much better poll would be taken at FR from vaxxed people. Anyone know how to setup a poll on FR?
Rand Paul and other Republicans should Investigate that claim and report on it. The left public has a right to know
except one thing, THEY say we’re jumping to conclusions when THEY jump to a conclusion.
Might be nice to wait and see what the science says. Both sides right now are baseless until we find a few facts.
Curious how they omit the term ‘fact-check’...
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It's absolutely false if you consider the deaths included in the 1598.
Here's one example:
Here's a 62 year old guy, who at one time participated in curling, who died of cancer. And there are dozens of these entries with old people with only the most tenuous connection to athletics (a sports announcer!) who died of cancer, Strep infections or unknown causes. All randomly collected off of the internet.
They try to compare this with a study of young (<35) athletes who died suddenly of specific cardiac conditions and who had their deaths written up in a medical journal.
The comparison is so deranged only an anti-vaxer would even waste the energy to post it.
An article from the Ass. Press saying something is false is good evidence it is true.
I wonder what the actual numbers are regarding young athletes, before and after vaccination became popular.
I had heard months ago that the number of healthy athletes dying on the field had grown exponentially since the vaccine became popular. I don’t know about the figures in the article.
I do know that a friend, with no history of cancer in her family, and 3 months after getting a clean bill of health on her more recent mamogram, got vaxxed and boosted.
And then she noticed one of her breasts hurt. The one on the same side she was vaxed. Within another three months, she was diagnosed with cancer and went through the full regimen, including having her breasts removed.
Oh, and she also had solid 20/20 vision and 7 weeks after getting vaxed, her retina, on the same side she was vaxxed, started separating. She had surgery for that as well. And a follow up - an attorney contacted her a few months later to get the specifics. She was added to a class action lawsuit regarding vax damage for cases covered at that particular clinic. At the time they contacted her it was just under 3,500 litigants in the class action.
YMMV.
My wife and I are in the control group. I’ve never even been tested, and we live our life as though Covid-19 never existed. That includes road trips all over the country since Summer of 2020.
We’re doing fine.
Change word popular with mandated.
AP = All Propaganda
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