'Athletes are all dying of heart attacks after Covid jab' - conspiracy garbage debunked

[editor]

Just in case you've got idiots on your FB timeline posting up this garbage:

The claim cites a German news story, which did not report that all of the athletes listed had died, did not say they all had heart attacks and included a disclaimer that not all of the people listed became ill because of vaccination.

• Of the 75 athletes included on the list, not all died and not all were vaccinated against COVID-19.

• Some who died had a history of heart problems or family history of death by heart attack.

The second person on the list, Danish soccer player Christian Eriksen, is alive. Eriksen collapsed June 12 during a soccer game after a cardiac arrest. Misinformation quickly circulated that Eriksen had received the COVID-19 vaccine a few weeks before his collapse, but the director of his professional team debunked the rumor. Eriksen had not been vaccinated against COVID-19, PolitiFact and other outlets reported.

Speed skater Kjeld Nuis is listed third, and he is also alive. He experienced inflammation of the sac surrounding his heart in July following COVID-19 vaccination, but he "recovered well" and joined a training camp two weeks later, Netherland News Live reported.

Farther down the list is French former soccer player Franck Berrier, who died of a heart attack in August while playing tennis — two years after retiring from soccer because of heart problems. Stories about his death do not mention any link to COVID-19 vaccination.

Despite the headline identifying the athletes as "prominent," the list includes a Belgian handball player and a 17-year-old high school student.

Some of the athletes listed in the German news story are alive, and some were not vaccinated against COVID-19. And some who died had a history of heart problems or a family history of death by heart attack.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

the people I have seen posting this are people Ihave stopped engaging with a while back, sadly.