By Tea Lynn Moore

Since the COVID shots were deployed to the public at the end of 2020, the news has been flooded with an alarming number of stories of young and exceptionally fit athletes dropping dead on the field. It is not normal for so many athletes to suffer from cardiac arrests or die while playing their sport.  Many of these cardiovascular issues and deaths come shortly after they received a COVID vaccine. While it is possible this can happen to anyone who did not get a shot, the vaccine mandates issued to athletes, combined with the sheer number of athletes dropping dead, certainly point to the obvious.

At the same time, the so-called health professionals running the COVID vaccine programs around the world keep repeating that “the COVID vaccine is safe and effective.” In response to their pronouncement, GoodSciencing put together a non-exhaustive and continuously growing list of (mainly young) athletes who had major medical issues and/or died in 2021 and 2022 after receiving one or more COVID shots. Since January 2021, GoodSciencing has listed 1657 athlete cardiac arrests/serious issues, with 1149 athlete deaths. Check out the growing list at Goodsciencing.com. 

In addition to GoodSciencing’s list, lists of athlete deaths categorized into their particular sport can be found on Wikipedia. Each list is just as jarring as the next. For example, on the Wikipedia page “List of association football players who died during their careers,” they list FIFA player deaths with their cause of death. While European Football has historically averaged the highest number of deaths per year among all sports, the year 2021 was their worst year yet.  In 2021 there were 19 cardiovascular deaths on the field, the previous ten years saw between 3-12 sudden cardiovascular deaths per year, averaging 7.1 deaths per year, meaning: sudden FIFA deaths on the field increased by 268% at the time athletes were getting vaccinated.

While it feels like the new normal now, athletes haven’t always been collapsing on the field. A study in Circulation by Maron et al. on sudden deaths in US athletes, from 1980 to 2006 in thirty-eight sports, identified 1049 cardiovascular deaths, with an average of 66 deaths per year (range 50 to 76). The years 2021 and 2022 averaged 141 sudden cardiovascular deaths in US athletes per year in those same sports (goodsciencing.com). Meaning, sudden cardiovascular deaths in US athletes have more than doubled since the vaccine was rolled out and mandated into the arms of young athletes. 

Many of the recent cardiac arrests seen in athletes are thought to have been caused by myocarditis. In 2021, the CDC found that males aged 18-24, showed an increase in myocarditis between 19.4 and 213 times (source: Benefit-risk discussion slides from a 2021 CDC ACIP meeting).  At the time this data was collected (August 2021), less than 50% of the US population was vaccinated. So, taking this fact into consideration, this would mean that vaccinated males aged 18-24 had an observed incidence of up to 426 times the expected rate of myopericarditis. According to the Cleveland Clinic, Myocarditis has a 5-year survival rate of only 50%.

While we witnessed an unprecedented amount of collapses and deaths on the field, it leaves us wondering: if those who are the healthiest among us are suddenly dying, what does that mean for the rest of us?