[SeekAndFind]

Professor Jeffrey Morris, the director of biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania (here), told Reuters there would need to be a high burden of proof to establish a link between anecdotal reports of footballers collapsing and vaccine-induced myocarditis.

He said via email: “One would, of course, need to establish the rate of cardiac arrest is higher than what is typical pre-pandemic, and then even if there is evidence of significantly excess events right now, determine whether it is being driven by COVID-19 infections (that might be undiagnosed, especially in young people) or the vaccines.

“I haven’t seen any data or papers connecting the dots to support this type of assertion, so I’d classify it as a hypothesis driven by anecdotal reports that are definitely worth following up on, but seems way premature to begin spreading the notion that it is the truth that these are driven by vaccination.”

Prof. Morris explained that several studies do indeed suggest a link between myocarditis and the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines – but said Israeli research found the risk of developing heart inflammation could be six times higher in those with COVID-19 itself.

He added: “Reports suggest that the vast majority of vaccine (and infection) induced myocarditis are mild and quickly resolve, with one paper showing that the rate of serious or long-term effects from myocarditis much higher in ‘classic’ myocarditis unrelated to COVID-19 than from infection or vaccines.”

Dr Scott Murray, clinical director of Cheshire-based heart clinic Venturi Cardiology, echoed Morris’ comments on the risk of myocarditis caused by vaccines compared with the risk posed by COVID-19.

He also said that attention to these cases was possibly due to high-profile incidents shared online, pointing to the widely publicized collapse in June of Danish footballer Christian Eriksen.

A claim about Eriksen was addressed by Reuters fact-checking team at the time ( here ).

VERDICT

No evidence. There is currently no evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are linked to reported incidents of athletes collapsing in public.

[SmokingJoe]

So Reuters presents the evidence to a bunch of people who are paid by Big Pharma/billionaires to lie and they proceeded to spew out their usual lies and disinformation.
So what's new?

[kiryandil]

The Brandon Media has taught us that anything following “fact check” is a lie for The Media Narrative and The Deep State.

[fireman15]

There is also no evidence to support President Trump’s false claims that the election was stollen. But everyone knows that the police shoot completely innocent black people every day for no reason.

[jimfree]

There is evidence. What would be helpful from the deniers is an analysis that tells us why those numbers are not significant, e.g., they might be consistent with historic numbers or something like that.

[richardtavor]

Thanks for laying out the facts and letting people decide on what they believe. I detest Reuters fact checkers because they ususally are agenda driven and only choose the sources that support their conclusions. But in this case, their conclusion is partially correct - it is too early to reach a definitive answer and the need for more research is established.

[hinckley buzzard]

Observational evidence can be suggestive although it is not positive proof. The best study would be simply to compare current incidents in the given population for a given time frame with an equal time frame pre-pandemic. Of course the ptb will never do that study, for fear of what it might reveal.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

(from the article):" “I haven’t seen any data or papers connecting the dots to support this type of assertion, so I’d classify it as a hypothesis driven by anecdotal reports
that are definitely worth following up on, but seems way premature
to begin spreading the notion that it is the truth that these are driven by vaccination.”

"You have to look for it,.. in order to find it"
At this point in time, I can find no research to investigate, or funding research to look into the the correlation between athletes deaths and vaccinations.
Who is charge of funding such research ? - Oh yeah ! Dr. Fauci
Enough said !

[ptsal]

Hogwash

[Bob434]

[[there would need to be a high burden of proof to establish a link between anecdotal reports of footballers collapsing and vaccine-induced myocarditis. ]]

But of course absolutely no high burden of proof needed to malign ivermectin and hcq and claim they are danberous

In other news, Reuters sucks!

[Mr. Jeeves]

"I’d classify it as a hypothesis driven by anecdotal reports that are definitely worth following up on..."

"Yep, that's definitely worth followin' up on. Some old day. Clem, what are you doin' in 2027?" /s