Probably 10 years ago or more, this happened to a kid in Auburn when hit in the chest with a baseball while throwing with his brother in the yard.
Saw it happen in youth baseball as well....in the 1950's. 12 and under baseball. Kid got hit in the chest, dropped to the ground and passed away where he fell. Witnessing that at 11 years of age almost made me give up the game. I didn't but I was intimidated in the batter's box for at least the next 2-3 years. Took some time for me and the others who saw it to get over it. Last night brought back a lot of those old feelings and emotion.
This is very interesting and insightful. My next question is what med school student or grad student figured this mechanism out because that seems like a tough to discover
It’s plausible. However, so is the fact that the league imposed a vax mandate on vaccines that have proven to cause cardiac issues. Seems convenient to just go all in on the “hit to chest” theory
Or it’s a known phenomenon to happen prior to the vaccines. Pretty convenient to push other agendas as well.
Rare phenomenon. Athletes dying of heart issues suddenly is not so rare anymore. It’s strangely more common in the past 2 years than ever before. Could be coincidental. But I doubt it.
I would argue it's awfully convenient to start with Vaccines.
It's hard to imagine how anyone could think its a huge coincidence that the COVID vaccine randomly caused his heart to stop at the exact moment he took a hard shot to the chest. You should definitely ignore all the doctors/EMTs pointing out a blunt trauma to the chest has caused many athletes to suffer similar cardiac arrest.
Hank was coming back next season to hit another 50 bombs before the vaccine struck him down in his prime.
Not necessarily. It was just an unintended death blow hit from the offensive player to a vulnerable spot. It stops the heart, and the victim loses consciousness within 8 seconds later due to lack of blood flow / oxygen to the brain. (That is how he was able to get up before collapsing.)
you’re a fvcking moron
Well, the whole world saw him take a hit to the chest immediately before he collapsed. Seems much more “convenient” for you to ignore that to spew yore nonsense.
My guess would be in pig hearts or the like. I feel certain this was not figured out in humans.
What about Keyontae Johnson from UF who collapsed on the court from heart failure during the FSU game in late 2020 before the vaccine rollout? Or Christian Eriksen, an unvaccinated soccer player who suffered cardiac arrest during a EURO Match in 2021? Literally two off the top of my head who were unvaccinated at the time of their individual events.
The "hit to chest" theory? You mean him literally getting hit in the chest?
I honestly have zero information regarding such things so real questions here-
Charlie Kirk told him so
This doesn't add up. I have never seen this condition happen in the NFL or in a College football game. As mentioned, it can happen in baseball and even tennis. Too many young athletes are going into cardiac arrest, we just saw it happen for the first time in my lifetime last night on national tv. Not to mention that he has shoulder pads which protects the chest area. Whatever the cause, I genuinely hope they drill down and find the problem
Think about how many times your heart beats a minute. Then think about all the things that go in to your heart beating. Atrial firing, ventricles firing, then repolarization. Then in order for this to happen you have to be hit in the chest in just the absolute fraction of a second your heart begins to recharge to do it all over again. The chances of it happening on live tv are extremely slim. We hear more about it now due to social media and easy access to news stories that are put out there to grab attention and clicks. We didn’t have that as much even 10-15 years ago. For the record I am as conservative as they come, but I think for myself
I would say it probably does add up. Let’s say it’s a 1 in a million occurrence. There’s a handful of hits a game with enough force located right on the sternum that could trigger it. So you’d need a million of those hits. If you say there’s 5 per team per week of the season that would be ~2750 per season (not counting for playoffs). that would mean you’d need 333 seasons to see 1 event. Even if you drastically upped the number of eligible hits, you can see it would still be a VERY rare occurrence. Granted, I don’t know the exact statistics, and this is just back of the napkin calculations. Either way, rare occurrences are rare. I.e. I wouldn’t expect to see them even every decade.
