A professional Dominican basketball player who’d blamed his bout of myocarditis on the COVID vaccine has since died of a heart attack.
Óscar Cabrera Adames, 28, died while possibly undergoing a stress test, Fox News reported on Saturday, citing a social media post from Dominican sports commentator Héctor Gómez, though it’s unclear whether the test had anything to do with his passing.
NEW: Another professional athlete has #diedsuddenly
Basketball player Óscar Cabrera Adames died earlier this week of a heart attack while undergoing a stress test at a health center in Santo Domingo.
He was only 28 years old.
Óscar was fully vaccinated pic.twitter.com/vU10hTvFaX
— DiedSuddenly (@DiedSuddenly_) June 25, 2023
Following word of his death, sleuths uncovered social media posts from him in which he’d blamed his myocarditis on the COVID vaccine.
“I got a damn Myocarditis from taking a f—ing vaccine. (I got 2 doses of Pfizer) And I knew it! Many people warned me,” Adames wrote in one tweet, according to Fox News, which neither linked to the tweet nor specified when it was posted.
“But guess what? It was compulsory or I couldn’t work. I am an international professional athlete and I am playing in Spain. I have no health problem, nothing, not hereditary, no asthma, NOTHING! I suddenly collapsed to the ground in the middle of a match and almost died. I’m still recovering and I’ve had 11 different cardiology tests done and guess? They find nothing,” Adames reportedly added in additional tweets.
The collapse he mentioned in the tweet reportedly occurred during a 2021 Spanish Amateur Basketball League game.
“He fainted during the game and was later transported to a hospital on a stretcher,” Fox News notes.
Adames’ death has triggered accusations that he died because of the vaccine:
This is just heartbreaking, it’s so hard seeing it happen to innocent people. May he rest easy ❤️
— Sarah Brookes (@SarahBr22242052) June 25, 2023
Seems that ‘healthy’ people who have taken the covid injections. End up having health concerns
— greg thrush (@ThrushGreg) June 25, 2023
He is not the only one; many young people are dying from cardiac issues on that island. Citizens of the Dominican Republic were forced to get the shots just to be able to go shopping for food.
— DerekAllen14 (@derekalan14) June 25, 2023
To be clear, there is no official link between the COVID vaccine and death. However, the vaccine has been linked to “rare” cases of myocarditis.
“The COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna do carry a rare risk — most frequently for young men — of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart, though experts and officials say the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks,” a fact-check from the Associated Press reads.
“Cardiologists have told the AP there have been instances of athletes experiencing sudden cardiac death and cardiac arrest long before the COVID-19 pandemic and that they have not observed the dramatic increase alleged on social media,” the fact-check continues.
Here’s the thing, though: Many people have reported experiencing myocarditis after being vaccinated, which raises the question of just how “rare” it happens to be:
I got Myocarditis after my 3rd shot and it’s not getting better….
— Mudda Skunt (@Da_Bodmon) March 4, 2022
I got myocarditis after my first Pfizer shot. Im almost back to normal 3.5 months later
— Ryan (@ohgawdthisguy) July 22, 2021
I got myocarditis after the second dose. Horrible 4 months of chest pain. Recovered and now feel good. From my experience, it doesn’t seem rare at all.
— Undercover Kat (@angelsforlove) April 30, 2023
I got myocarditis after 2nd dose. Weeks of fear and antibiotics, but I’m fine now. No one should be forced to go through this. Not going to be boostered to death.
— CrystabelULTRAchan (@CrystabelQt) February 18, 2022
I got myocarditis after my initial vaccines. Now I have a permanently structurally changed heart. I’m on lifetime heart meds and I’m still considering a pacemaker. Myocarditis isn’t rare for young vaxxed men and it can kill or permanently damage. It killed my nephew 10 years ago.
— Xi Bridget Maquisard (@Bridgetdonegal1) January 11, 2022
What’s also known is that young people, particularly young men, are at the highest risk of contracting myocarditis after receiving the COVID jab.
“In the highest-risk group, teen boys, myocarditis occurred in 26.7 out of 100,000 cases after the second vaccine dose, while the condition occurred in 59 out of 100,000 cases after coming down with Covid,” Stat reported last month, citing data from the CDC.
This is why the CDC came under so much fire after it decided last fall to recommend the COVID vaccine be made mandatory for school attendance.
It’s “absolutely outrageous given the risks to children from these vaccines and the extremely low risk children face from COVID,” conservative commentator Megyn Kelly said at the time.
“Young people are being injured by these vaccines, and as I tweeted out correctly the other day, a disturbing number of children are dying after getting them. It’s rare, but it’s happening,” she added.
View the tweet she referenced below:
A scary # of kids are dying after taking the Covid vax – from myocarditis among other injuries. HOW DARE THE CDC ADD THIS TO ITS LIST OF SCHOOL VACCINATIONS? Don’t listen. Be v careful w/ your teenage boys in partic but girls too. These are not honest brokers. This is dangerous!
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) October 19, 2022
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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