As prayers for Damar Hamlin began to roll in on social media after he received CPR on the field, so too did the inevitable conspiracy theories that somehow the cardiac arrest he suffered came from the Covid vaccine.
” about the vaccine, while other anti-vaxxers simply used the syringe emoji to imply that somehow Hamlin getting inoculated is to blame for his medical emergency.
It’s something that Dr. Paula Cannon, professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, is all too familiar with. Cannon says that since the vaccine was introduced three years ago, these unfounded theories have spawned from close to nothing, even after they have been proven time and again to be “extraordinarily safe.”
“What is it with these feeble-minded people who cannot hold unpleasant truths in life in their head for one minute, who have to turn everything into some magical alternative explanation?” Cannon tells. “Of course, it’s not the vaccine. It’s the fact that he was hit in a football game.”NBC News that the collapse could have resulted from commotio cordis, which occurs when someone gets hit in the chest with a certain amount of force at a specific time during the heart cycle.
Cardiologist Khalid Aljabri explained on Twitter that the blow may have “triggered ventricular fibrillation” and caused the player to collapse.
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