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Damar Hamlin's collapse & the inevitable mRNA vaccine questions

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A thread about the unexpected and unfolding Damar Hamlin tragedy can be found here:

Bills versus Bengals Monday Night Football Jan 2
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-13405-...l#pid55539


Damar Hamlin's collapse & the inevitable mRNA vaccine questions
https://doctorbuzz.substack.com/p/damar-...inevitable

EXCERPTS: . . . The first explanation that began to circulate widely late Monday night, after Damar Hamlin had collapsed to the field after making a rather mundane tackle, was that the hit he absorbed from Bengals receiver Tee Higgins’ shoulder and helmet to his chest had triggered a rare sports injury known as “commotio cordis.” We doctors do a lot of pattern recognition, and when you see a young athlete take a blow to the chest and then collapse in short order, commotio cordis is the pattern that knowledgeable cardiologists immediately recognized.

And others ran in the opposite direction, for the very good reason that since commotio cordis implies a purely accidental injury to a healthy heart, then this tragedy couldn’t have been caused by you-know-what...

Now, Dr Peter McCollough is a big-time cardiologist, and until a few years ago his words carried a great deal of weight in the medical community. He has since shifted to a virulently anti-mRNA-vaccine posture, one which to my eyes long ago left the station of caring about actual facts or their accurate representation. Of course, when a prominent cardiologist like Dr McCollough casts aspersions on the conventional wisdom’s diagnosis of commotio cordis, the many millions of anti-mRNA-vaccine folks in this country prick up their ears. Suddenly, we have an actual ideological feud underway over why an innocent football player’s heart stopped — a sadly American phenomenon these days.

What really happened? We might never know. We only have clues at this point.

[...] In the case of Damar Hamlin, the only thing we know is that he was hit in the chest, and then he suffered a ventricular arrhythmia which could be explained by being hit in the chest. Occam says: commotio cordis; why invent a possible backstory?

However, what I did learn in med school was that when you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras. In other words: common things are more likely to present in uncommon ways than classic presentations of rare diseases. What’s common in football is sudden cardiac arrest from a pre-existing, often unknown, problem with the heart. Here is the break-down..

[...] The only people with insight into which slice of that pie most likely describes Damar Hamlin’s heart are his hospital physicians...

[..] I think, though, barring any real zebras, these are our most likely scenarios:

1) The conventional wisdom is correct...

[...] 2) The chest impact was a mere coincidence, and it was the adrenalin surge from a difficult tackle in a huge game that tipped off some latent problem in Damar Hamlin’s heart.

[...] 3) Damar Hamlin had a pre-existing heart condition, as per the options in #2, and the chest impact may have helped trigger the arrhythmia but it was not the sole trigger as in true commotio cordis...


[...] it’s worth one more look at those 12 cases of commotio cordis in 26 years of reporting. Of course, there is inevitable misclassification and undercounting in any reporting of this sort. Still, that tiny number does stand out, especially when you consider that Pop Warner adds another third of a million participants into the mix, and college over 50,000. If 1.5 million athletes are playing football every year, and only accumulate 12 cases of commotio cordis over a 26 year span, this is not a “one-in-a-million” shot, it is more like 1 in 3 million, per athlete, per year, leading to a cardiac arrest attributed to commotio cordis.

[...]  worked through these possibilities out of my usual curiosity, but also to make a point: those claiming this simply could not be commotio cordis out of an ideological desire to make the case that this falls in the realm of “vaccine injury” are over-stating their case. So, too, are those claiming that this is clearly commotio cordis and anyone suggesting it could be anything else, including the sequelae of an mRNA vaccine, are completely out of line. We just don’t know. We might never know.

It also does not really matter. Despite what might be inevitable discussions about adding a layer of foam/kevlar/etc into NFL player jerseys to protect their sternum, if this was really commotio cordis: it will never happen again... (MORE - missing details)
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Damar Hamlin's injury was the result of... wait for it.... racism! So says Scientific American!

Sure, why not? There are millions of sympathetic eyes temporarily directed at Hamlin and his unfortunate injury, so why not exploit that opportunity to get our own pet causes in front of those eyes? 

If it's in Scientific American it's Science after all, so you must unquestioningly believe it!

https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...-football/
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(Jan 9, 2023 05:52 PM)Yazata Wrote: Damar Hamlin's injury was the result of... wait for it.... racism! So says Scientific American!

Sure, why not? There are millions of sympathetic eyes temporarily directed at Hamlin and his unfortunate injury, so why not exploit that opportunity to get our own pet causes in front of those eyes? 

If it's in Scientific American it's Science after all, so you must unquestioningly believe it!

https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...-football/

Jerry Coyne addressed it in the last half of this blog post:

Scientific American continues its departure from science and descent into illiberal politics
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/01/0...-politics/

Then a day later he covered public reaction to the SciAm article and Laura Helmuth's response of "and the replies to any tweet about systemic racism prove the existence of systemic racism", where she shut down reply ability of those that criticized:

Confirmation bias from the editor of Scientific American
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/01/0...-american/

One of those critics was former coach Tony Dungy: "As a black man and former NFL player I can say this article is absolutely ridiculous."
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Kind of like the lunatics taking over the asylum.
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