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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AHH, the AP (All Propaganda). MUST BE TRUE! /S
got to cover dat azz
Consider if there had been no COVID and, therefore, no experimental “vaccines” in our social reality. In such a world, the fallen Buffalo player would very likely have been attended to differently, carted off the field, to a prompt resumption of the game. Instead, it was morose with an underlying current that, due to politics, must not be spoken of or speculated about. Obviously, just my theory and opinion.
I'd like to know that too.
What I do know is those claiming there's been a big increase in sudden deaths of athletes are either making up the numbers, speculating without numbers, or flat-out lying like McCullough and Polykretis.
“Baselessly”
Already on my list of BS words and phrases.
You would think even Leftist editors would tone down the repetition, for fear of giving the game away.
When I want facts checked I go to the research scientists at AP. /s
If these claims are baseless, the burden of proof is on Big Pharma and Big Gov to prove they are baseless, not the other way around.
In fact, by law, they were required to prove that BEFORE the “vaccines” were ever distributed.
And mandating the “vaccines” was/is criminal regardless.
What I do know is those claiming there’s been a big increase in sudden deaths of athletes are either making up the numbers, speculating without numbers, or flat-out lying like McCullough and Polykretis.
I’m surprised the FR $$s, who’ve dug way deep into this Safe and Effective premise, haven’t jumped on, to defend A$$ Pre$$, on this whopper.
I wonder how much govt funding goes to paying AssPress fact-checkers?
The coverup and gaslighting continues.
As with most of the rest of the media, AP is nothing but a joke.
You don’t buy the claim at the end of the article that they are just trying to counter ‘misinformation?’
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You missed my “/s” Sarcastic
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sarcastic
The written word unlike the spoken word is not very good at indicating sarcasm so we have to let the reader know what you are writing in not meant to be taken literally but is mocking something.
Before COVID in general, too. To leave no doubt (and the fact that lockdowns curtailed much activity).
There really should be an honest, scholarly, thorough study of not just how many after, but how many BEFORE.
This article claims that the research was really shallow and possibly just made up, from some casual observer.
We need much better than that. Otherwise it’s a house of cards.
Besides, I’m still mostly worried about long-term illness - cancers, etc, down the road.
But, percents are still more important than absolute counts.
So, if only 2000 players were around then, that would be horrible % vs maybe 2000000 players the last few years.
Probably won’t be much different, or will be some increase, but percent is where it’s at, not numbers.
At least ap is a constant liar
woops- sorry- i copied and pasted the wrong quote=- i meant ot quote your post
[[Well, there is the meme out that 1200+ athletes died on the field from 1970 - 2000, and 1500+ athletes died on the field from 2021 - 2022]]
my response was to that quote- not the one i posted by mistake-
if that claim is true, vaccine makers have a lot of explaining to do. They shouldn’t be allowed to run from the facts
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