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LOCAL NEWS Long Island high school football player taken off life support after collapsing at summer workout
CBS News ^ | Jennifer McLogan

Posted on 07/17/2023 2:57:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A Newfield High School football player has been taken off life support after he collapsed during a summer workout.

Robert Bush, 17, suffered sudden cardiac arrest after a 4-minute conditioning drill on July 3. His teammates and coach desperately tried to save him when he collapsed on the field.

"We're at the beginning of the final stages of my brother," said Steven Bush. "We haven't said our goodbyes, but that's what we are preparing to do, talk about organ donation."

Robert's family says he was taken off life support Friday night so that his organs could be donated.

The grieving family is getting love and support from the community in Selden.

Watch Jennifer McLogan's report

It's unknown if Robert has a heredity condition. He was adopted at birth into the Bush family and is among 10 of their children and 300 foster children.

"Did you ever see the movie 'Rudy'? That's him," said Christopher Bush about his brother.

Robert's teammates visited him in the hospital.

"You don't realize how much a community can come together until you see it firsthand," said Christopher.

There are lingering questions about how much time passed before Robert's heart was shocked by a defibrillator. Were AEDs accessible and on the field?

The Bush family asked why summer sports programs don't have the same safety requirements as in-season practices and games.

"As an athletic trainer myself, we've got to make sure we are advocating for medical professionals for these kids. Practice, conditioning, it doesn't matter. Someone needs to be there. Could have made the difference," said Joshua Bush, Robert's cousin.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Sports
KEYWORDS: athlete; cheapskate; collapse; donatedonaldtrump; donatefreerepublic; donatetrump; newyork; sports
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To: norcal joe; entropy12
I read that sudden deaths have actually gone way down since the start of COVID vaxes, and even more so for young adults.

An absolute lie. Excess deaths were higher in 2022 alone than they had been in 70 years prior.

22 posted on 07/17/2023 3:33:59 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: tflabo
Yep, and something that's always bothered me too since Covid hit the nation, and the jabs came out. If this young man was jabbed wouldn't donating his organs then pass along the very thing that could have led to his death, and wouldn't that be dangerous to do?

I'm genuinely curious.

23 posted on 07/17/2023 3:35:35 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: nickcarraway

Had to be vaxxed to play sports.


24 posted on 07/17/2023 3:53:35 PM PDT by SkyDancer (My Talents Are So Hidden That Even I Can't Find Them ...)
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To: Wuli
or is it just the reporing of them that has increased???

Every year, there's always a couple of football players dying of heat exhaustion.

25 posted on 07/17/2023 4:51:44 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Responsibility2nd

It’s over 100 degrees outside. That does a number on the body.


26 posted on 07/17/2023 4:55:21 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: nickcarraway

And the covaxers rejoice


27 posted on 07/17/2023 4:57:38 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: napscoordinator

Yeah, but not in Long Island.

And the report indicates they had done a four minute drill.

This does not look heat related.


28 posted on 07/17/2023 5:08:18 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Pray for God's intervention to stop Biden's invasion)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I don’t know why I thought Georgia. Maybe it was the jab. Who knows.


29 posted on 07/17/2023 5:09:12 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: nickcarraway
LOL

And at the ping, obviously, not at this young man's unfortunate passing.


30 posted on 07/18/2023 5:06:04 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: nickcarraway

I’m not sure organ donation is a good idea if that was a vaxx-related death...


31 posted on 07/18/2023 5:15:16 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: mewzilla

And I have a question for his parents: Why didn’t they ensure that there was an AED and someone trained to use it available before they allowed their son to participate in sports?


32 posted on 07/18/2023 5:18:43 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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