18-year-old Bronny James, a University of Southern California freshman and the son of NBA superstar LeBron James, suffered a cardiac arrest during a basketball workout on Monday. Reports indicate that he lost consciousness but was successfully revived, and he is now listed in stable condition at a hospital in the Los Angeles area.
As he does with practically every high-profile incident, Elon Musk inserted himself into the discussion, this time by floating the possibility that the COVID vaccine may have played a role in the young athlete’s health crisis. Musk, the CEO of Tesla and the owner of Twitter (which he rebranded as “X” after a $44 billion purchase last year), tweeted his thoughts on the matter on Tuesday. He acknowledged that attributing everything to the vaccine might not be accurate, but likewise, dismissing any potential connection entirely might not be justified either.
Musk pointed to myocarditis, a rare inflammatory condition affecting the heart, as a known side-effect of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cases of myocarditis have been reported in adolescents and young adult males who received the mRNA vaccine.
As of May 2022, there were 635 cases of myocarditis diagnosed out of approximately 54.8 million doses of the vaccine administered to children between the ages of 5 and 17.
The CDC, while acknowledging the existence of adverse events post-vaccination, emphasized that it is crucial to differentiate between events caused directly by the vaccine and those occurring coincidentally.
LeBron James had previously stated that his family, including his son Bronny, had been vaccinated against COVID-19. However, there is currently no evidence linking the cardiac arrest incident to the vaccine. LeBron James confirmed the incident involving his son, who was preparing for his debut season with the USC Trojans.
In a statement to TMZ, the James family shared the details of the incident: “Yesterday while practicing, Bronny James suffered a cardiac arrest. Medical staff promptly attended to him and transported him to the hospital.” They further requested privacy and promised updates as more information became available.
Emergency services were alerted when a 911 call was placed at 9:26 a.m. from the Galen Center, where USC practices, reporting the emergency. Bronny was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance, with TMZ obtaining audio of a 911 dispatcher referring to him as “unconscious.”
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Chances of having myocarditis from covid itself is same or higher than from the vaccine.
Also, I think, chance of such side effects from both virus and vaccine are highest in the several weeks after the event, not later on.
He has “basketball zchus avos” and got excellent fast care. Many other lesser known young athletes and average Joes weren’t so lucky and succumbed to this myorcardial / SAD pandemic.
New evidence has emerged that the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are routinely injuring the heart of all vaccine recipients, raising further questions about their safety and their role in the recent elevated levels of heart-related deaths. Recent evidence comes in a study from Switzerland, which found elevated troponin levels – indicating heart injury – across all vaccinated people, with 2.8% having levels associated with subclinical myocarditis.
mRNA vaccination does not prevent Covid infection so the risks are additive and the comparison between vaccination risk and infection risk is false. Cardiovascular injury also is not the only serious adverse event associated with these vaccines. A recent study by researchers from Harvard, Oxford and Johns Hopkins University (among others) found that the mRNA vaccines are up to nearly 100 times more likely to cause a person of student age serious injury than prevent him or her from being hospitalised with COVID-19.
Most of these studies only look at clinical adverse events, i.e., events serious enough to warrant medical assistance. Studies are also emerging which show these clinical events to be just the tip of the iceberg of a far larger number of subclinical injuries. A study in Thailand found cardiovascular adverse effects in around a third of teenagers (29.2%) following Pfizer vaccination and subclinical heart inflammation in one in 43 (2.3%).
It’s obviously because of climate change
everything comes from above, why do we question Hashem……
“The CDC, while acknowledging the existence of adverse events post-vaccination, emphasized that it is crucial to differentiate between events caused directly by the vaccine and those occurring coincidentally.”
That’s rich, coming from the CDC.
Sounds like what we were all saying while they piled up the numbers during the pandemic: “There’s a difference between dying from COVID and dying with COVID,” except that they didn’t listen to us then…
“ a population as large as the United States will experience the sudden cardiac death of a competitive athlete at the average rate of one every three days, often with significant local media coverage heightening public attention.[17]”
The risk seems to be higher in competitive basketball. Nothing new here
> Always_Ask_Questions
How do you know what the “chances” are? What is your source?
And musk’s evidence? Just more of pushing a conspiracy theory
Climate change.
It would be a great chessed for Last Word to get in touch with the Lebron James family, so that Last Word and friends, rather than USC physicians, will supervise their son’s recovery.
When you’ve got Last Word available for your diagnosis, no need for all those pesky tests that USC doctors think are relevant.
Why bother him with tests, when Last Word and friends can diagnose for you, without even having to examine this kid?
@Always_Ask_Questions
That’s a balatant lie promulgated by the CDC without ANY DATA to back it up has now been been proved to be false over and over. I dare anyone to prove me wrong with actual RCT data! Check out the latest data released from S. Korea. to my point:
academic[dot]oup[dot]com/eurheartj/article/44/24/2234/7188747
…and that is nation were they mostly aspirate InraMuscular injections for added safety. I can show four more similar studies upon request.
There was NEVER ANY reason for the young & healthy to get these shots as the risk is FAR GREATER than the negligible & very time-limited reward.
…another one my above mentioned 4 similar studies has just become Peer-reviewed & accepted:
onlinelibrary[dot]wiley[dot]com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejhf.2978
I personally know of two healthy anecdotals who died within days (one of them official in VAERS) of these shots and scores more injured.
The biggest non-discussed retzicha is these mostly useless shots gave people a false sence of security by avoiding early treatment and succumbing to Covid19.
The 2nd biggest non-discussed retzicha are all the neshamos who were not born because of post-jab miscarriages and irregularities in menstrual cycles.
ANY ROV OR MD who unnecessarily advocated for these jabs has to publicly ask for MECHILA and/or go dooor to door. Yesh din v’dayan for those killed & maimed.
Would never happen to MJ’s son. Once again proving MJ is the true GOAT.
tzedikis:
So you mean that you could just play in traffic and not worry about it because everything comes from above?
Researchers actually did studies on this. There hasn’t been an increase. Someone in my friend’s yeshiva had cardaic arrest on the basketball court several years ago. This had nothing to do with the vaccine.
The medical research shows that there has not been an increase in cardaic arrests of athletes after the vaccines. Why is he spreading these spurious claims?
@Dan The …whatever.
Please stop posting fake calims of “studies” & “research” without providing independent & peer reviewed sources with URLs.
This last pandemic & public health response was a terrible calamity on the world. Enough already with adding to the Pikuach Nefesh! too many churbanos fo us to mourn today, dai l’tzorseinu!