When Bronny James suffered cardiac arrest, Elon Musk and others suggested without evidence that COVID-19 vaccines were the cause. It’s a longtime trend in anti-vaccine disinformation.
"There’s something called the ‘innuendo effect’ whereby even suggestions that something is true lends to its credibility," said Pierre, who hasMusk’s suggestion that myocarditis might be linked to James’ cardiac incident"fuels belief in misinformation," he said."No matter that myocarditis and cardiac arrest are two separate conditions or that the risk of myocarditis appears much greater with COVID than with vaccinations.
"Is that a fair question to raise, and is it true that we see more of this than we did prior to the vaccine, doctor?" MacCallum asked. Nesheiwat said cardiomyopathy is more common than myocarditis for people like James and said he would need tests to determine what happened."We don’t have the data to say" whether athletes are experiencing heart trouble more frequently now, she said.Musk’s speculation"may be completely wrong," Ingraham said.
"There’s absolutely no signal that we’ve had an increase in the number of deaths over the last several years — amongst high school, collegiate or professional sports," said Dr. Matthew Martinez, the director of Atlantic Health System Sports Cardiology at Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey.
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