Claims connecting sudden death in athletes to COVID-19 vaccines fall short of scrutiny
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* Scientific reviews, medical experts and sports cardiologists have found no association between sudden death in athletes and the COVID-19 vaccines.
* Figures used to support the claim that there is a link are inconsistent and often include unconfirmed and incomplete reports that don’t confirm vaccination or involve any emergency episodes.
Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome, also known as SADS, has been studied for years. The syndrome is caused by an undetected genetic heart condition and often occurs in young adulthood.
But ever since the COVID-19 vaccines were released in late 2020, people have continually suggested that the shots are making SADS more common.
Articles and social media posts have highlighted instances of young athletes collapsing during games, with claims that the rate of these occurrences are way up since the vaccines came to market.
Take this Instagram post .. https://archive.ph/ob4MF : "SADS — according to International Olympic Committee data, an average of 29 athletes under the age of 35 suffer sudden death per year from 1966-2004. From March 2021 to March 2022, 769 athletes have died or suffered cardiac arrest."
There are a number of issues here.First: the data itself. While the study that the post described as "International Olympic Committee data" only reflects sudden deaths, the 769 figure it is being compared with incorporates deaths and cardiac arrest episodes that did not result in death. PolitiFact’s review of some of the reports that were counted in that figure also found the number included reports of cases that didn’t involve any emergency medical episodes at all.
We were unable to get in touch with researchers involved in that study for more details or updated figures, and the International Olympic Committee told us that it doesn’t track this kind of data.
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In the clip, reporter Pearson Sharp talked about how tennis players Jannik Sinner and Paula Badosa had to drop out of the Miami Open in 2021. Sharp then said the women were just two of "more than 769 athletes who have collapsed during a game on the field over the last year from March of 2021 to March of this year." However, Sinner and Badosa did not collapse during any match.Tennis officials confirmed .. https://www.berkshireeagle.com/ap/factcheck/miami-open-withdrawals-weren-t-caused-by-covid-vaccine-effects/article_77205734-bce1-11ec-abd0-53c7bfa48bdd.html .. that Sinner was suffering from foot blisters and Badosa had a viral illness at the time.
We reached out to Sharp about the data he used to get the figure. He told us the deaths and injuries were taken directly from headlines collected over the past year from around the world and sent several examples.
A review of the articles Sharp sent over also showed that the reports aren’t consistent. Some cite medical professionals who ruled out vaccination as a cause. Others don’t include any information on the athlete’s vaccination status. And some were about athletes that neither collapsed nor experienced a cardiac event.
One of the examples is Gilbert Kwemoi, a Gold medalist middle-distance runner from Kenya who collapsed in his home and died in August 2021. None of the reports about his death that we reviewed indicate whether he was vaccinated against COVID-19 or if it was a cardiac event that caused his death. His brother told news .. https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1111716/gilbert-soet-kwemoi-dies-aged-23 .. outlets that Kwemoi had developed an "illness" at a training camp.
Berrier was quoted in 2019 to have said that his heart was only working "at 70%"
"There is no danger in day-to-day life," Berrier said, "but if I put too much strain on it there's the risk that blood won't be pumped in fast enough and I'll have a heart attack."
Sharp also pointed to the case of Kjeld Nuis, a Dutch speed skater. Nuis briefly developed pericarditis after receiving Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine but he didn’t collapse during any sporting event and he didn’t say whether his vaccination contributed to his heart problem or whether it was linked to his athletic activity. After experiencing some flu-like symptoms and chest pressure, Nuis said he was examined by his sports doctor and cardiologist.
"Was immediately able to go the next day and after a heart film, ultrasound and an MRI. Everything seems to be fine! Now at training camp," the skater said on his Instagram page .. https://www.instagram.com/p/CRl0twZIYiu/ .
"To date, I am not aware of a single COVID vaccine-related cardiac complication in professional sports," Matthew Martinez, a sports cardiologist who works with the National Football League, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League and Major League Soccer and who is the director of sports cardiology at Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey told us in December .. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/01/blog-posting/theres-no-proof-covid-19-vaccines-are-causing-heal/ . Martinez reaffirmed that observation when we reached out to him again in June.
The same goes for Jonathan Kim, an associate professor of medicine and chief of sports cardiology at Emory University in Atlanta. "I am not aware of any reports that vaccines in athletes are causing cardiac issues," he said.
Vaccines don’t increase deaths
Studies and scientific reviews found no association between vaccination and deaths in anyone — adults or children — except in rare cases, according to a 2015 study .. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4599698/ . More recently, following the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines, a 2021 study .. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7043e2.htm .. by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found no increased risk for death among those vaccinated for COVID-19.
According to the Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes Foundation .. https://www.sads.org/sads-conditions/ , SADS conditions are genetic heart issues that can cause sudden death in young, apparently healthy, people.
Warning signs of SADS conditions include family history of sudden, unexplained death under age 40, fainting or seizure during exercise, excitement or startle, and consistent or unusual chest pain and/or shortness of breath during exercise, the SADS foundation said.
These conditions have been studied for decades, and the foundation told PolitiFact that there is "no evidence" suggesting that any of the COVID-19 vaccines cause people to develop SADS conditions, or make people’s conditions more severe.
Dr. Michael J. Ackerman, director of the Long QT Syndrome Clinic and professor of medicine, pediatrics and molecular pharmacology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine said there is not a "single signal" of increased SAD events among diagnosed and treated patients who’ve been vaccinated.
"Over two years into the pandemic, there’s been no indication in the largest programs in the world of an increase in death from these conditions," Ackerman said.
Our ruling
An Instagram post claims that an average of 29 young athletes suffered sudden death per year from 1966 to 2004, while 769 athletes have died or suffered cardiac arrest from March 2021 to March 2022, suggesting the COVID-19 vaccines have caused a spike in sudden deaths.
A study published in 2006 found that an average of 29 young athletes experienced sudden deaths over a nearly 40-year span, but there is no comparable study to weigh it against. The 769 figure is based on a collection of articles that incorporate reports of athlete deaths, cardiac arrest incidents and various incomplete anecdotes that didn’t involve any emergency medical episodes or have any confirmed connection to the vaccines.
Studies and scientific reviews have found no association between vaccination and sudden deaths, and officials with the SADS foundation, as well as sports cardiologists, say there is no evidence that suggests any of the COVID-19 vaccines cause people to experience sudden death.
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Myocarditis: COVID-19 is a much bigger risk to the heart than vaccination
IMAGE - Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle most commonly caused by a virus. (Shutterstock)
Published: January 18, 2022 4.34am AEDT Updated: January 22, 2022 7.02am AEDT
The heart has played a central role in COVID-19 since the beginning. Cardiovascular conditions are among the highest risk factors for hospitalization. A significant number of patients hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 infections have signs of heart damage, and many recover from infection with lasting cardiovascular injury.
Perhaps the most common point of conflict concerning COVID-19 vaccines is the risk of myocarditis following immunization, particularly among young people.
What do the numbers tell us about COVID-19, vaccines and myocarditis?
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e5.htm , [color=red]the risk of myocarditis after infection with COVID-19 is much higher, at 146 cases per 100,000. [/color]The risk is higher for males, older adults (ages 50+) and children under 16 years old. Soccer player Alphonso Davies, 21, of Canada’s national men’s team, was sidelined by heart inflammation after having COVID-19.
Post-vaccination myocarditis
Myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination is rare and the risk is much smaller than the risks of cardiac injury linked to COVID-19 itself.
Based on a study out of Israel .. http://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2110737 , the risk of post-vaccine myocarditis is 2.13 cases per 100,000 vaccinated, which is within the range usually seen in the general population. This study is consistent with others in the United States and Israel which put the overall incidence of post-vaccine myocarditis between 0.3 and five cases per 100,000 people.
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Take-home message
The dynamic changes in the global pandemic, combined with rapid developments in research, make it challenging for the public to take in all the information about the risks and benefits of COVID-19 vaccines. In cases like this it is useful to turn to the guidance of medical organizations whose mandates are to protect the health and welfare of society.
Considering all of the available research, organizations including the American Heart Association, Canadian Cardiovascular Society, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Canadian Paediatric Society and the American Academy of Pediatrics encourage all who are eligible to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
That’s a message we should all take to heart.
This is an updated version of a story originally published on Jan. 17, 2022. It clarifies that a study found patients with myocarditis from COVID-19 had poorer outcomes compared to COVID-19 patients who did not develop myocarditis.
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