Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest was seized on by anti-vaccine activists pushing unfounded claims about Covid vaccines. His swift recovery has pushed them to even stranger theories.
that the Covid vaccine was to blame, adding to a growing narrative among anti-vaccine voices that many vaccinated people were dying unexpectedly.
Medical personal attend to Damar Hamlin after he collapsed during the NFL football game in Cincinnati on Jan. 2.Twenty days after his collapse, Hamlin attended a playoff game against the Bengals. Online sleuths picked apart the news coverage and online posts documenting his return to the stadium. They concluded that Hamlin’s glasses and face covering were a disguise and attributed the blurry shots of him not to a raging snowstorm, but to a more sinister coverup.
Following the game, tens of thousands of posts across social media suggested that Hamlin was dead or that his appearance had been somehow faked, according to Zignal Labs, a company that analyzes social media, broadcast, traditional media and online conversations. Hashtags, including #WhereIsDamarHamlin, were trending on Twitter.
The notion that powerful forces control the world in part with the careful deployment of body doubles is a long-standing conspiracy theory. In recent years, such theories have been aimed at figures including President Joe Biden, former first lady Melania Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and pop star Avril Lavigne.Attributing any high-profile death or injury to a vaccine is a common anti-vaccine tactic.
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