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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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I stopped reading at “AP.”
It seems that the AP will publish almost any lie for sufficient monetary compensation.
Since it comes from AP, it’s worthless propaganda for a failed medical establishment.
The AP was captured by Obama in 2008 and hasn’t been let out of the dungeon yet... probably never will be.
It is from AP so we know it is true and can be trusted /s
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.
I’ve learned, simply put, to not trust any source that had to pay a settlement to Nick Sandmann. They are proven liars.
AP is “running interference.”
You don’t buy the claim at the end of the article that they are just trying to counter ‘misinformation?’
AP fake checkers.
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
Anyone assuming the AP is a honest reliable source for “fact check” is an absolute moron. AP is about as reliable as CNN, NY TIMES, social media, or any of the Hags on the View.
How long do you figure it takes a team of cardiologists to check this kid for myocarditis? 75 years?
Half the players and half the viewers, at least, instantly thought “vaccine” upon seeing him collapse.
That came from the letter AP is referencing... they are right in saying there hasn’t been an actual peer reviewed study on this question, which just leads me to ask ‘why?’...
AP thinks it’s a Jedi and can use the mind-trick ,LOL
If AP did redo reporting they would report their numbers and the methodology they used to generate them. They would also compare their results to the results mccollough cited and that methodology.
This article does none of the work, that is required to refute the numbers cited.
AP propaganda!
It certainly was what I thought.. just a few hours before I put up a post about the former Jaguar player that ‘died suddenly.’ These stories keep coming...
if only the science would science this up
I don’t trust any organization that gets paid by the Feds, like the AP, to run or carry certain stories.
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