In social networks, publications on an unprecedented increase in mortality among athletes, coincided with mass vaccination from coronavirus are spread. We checked the reliability of such messages.
IN Facebook, Twitter And other social networks in November and December appeared posts that in 2021 the mortality of football players increased significantly. Some Internet users They say: “108 players / coaches registered in FIFA have died over the past six months ...” Others bring Somewhat different data: “Since December (2020. - Approx. Ed.) 183 professional athletes and coach suddenly lost consciousness. 108 of them died. ” The authors of such publications and comments on them are confident that such sad statistics are associated with the vaccination from the Coronavirus Covid-19 passing throughout the world.
For the first time, the statement of the unprecedented increase in mortality among players became popular abroad. Then he was noticed by the fact of a fact from Reuters And Lead Stories. In recent months, our colleagues from Associated Press, Factcheck.org, Politifact And other projects were dismantled at once by several similar stories.
The primary source of publications with the mention of the number 108 - written in Hebrew notePublished on November 13 on the Real Time News website. It states that “108 professional athletes and coaches, as well as athletes from colleges” have died since December 2020. This is a statement accompanied The list.
The list was studied by our colleagues from Reuters. It turned out that it was compiled on the basis of media reports and includes people aged 12 to 64 years from different countries. They were engaged in various sports: American football, light athletics, badminton, baseball, basketball, boxing, rowing, cricket, handball, hockey, football, desktop and large tennis, volleyball, firing from onions and others. The list included both professional athletes and amateurs, veterans and young athletes. Also mention the compilers, among others, the same Caddy (Holphist assistant) and a doctor who died during the run.
Real Time News states that most of the 108 deaths were “associated with diseases of the cardiovascular system” and emphasizes that they occurred after the start of mass vaccination from Covid-19.
Our colleagues from Reuters studied media reports, on which Israeli authors founded their publication. Of the 108 cases in 53, the cause of death is documented. The list really includes heart problems, as well as cerebral aneurysm, brain injuries, congenital problems with the coronary artery, an accident on a motorcycle, thermal blow, suicide, etc. One of the aforementioned athletes even died in August 2019, before the beginning of the pandemic. Some people died before people began to vaccinate people in their countries.
Reuters have contacted the international federations of football, handball, basketball, cricket, heavy athletics and other sports, as well as with associations involved in student sports in the United States. In their answers, these organizations reported that, according to them, no sharp increase in mortality among athletes is observed in 2021. It turned out to be unknown to death after vaccination from the Covid-19. Representatives of the Cardiac Risk in the Young charitable organization emphasized that the sudden deaths of young men and girls mentioned in the list due to heart problems-this, unfortunately, is not uncommon not only among athletes.
Thus, the verified statement of the relationship between the deaths of people from the world of sports and vaccination is based solely on the assumption of the authors of the list from the Israeli publication and is not documented. The list itself is a distorted picture: it includes people who died and died from various reasons. Real Time News statements are not confirmed by representatives of many sports associations.
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- Reuters. FACT Check-List of ‘108 FIFA SOCCER Players’ IS NOT Proof of A Common Link Between Covid-19 Vaccines and Athlete Deaths
- Lead Stories. Fact Check: List is not a Verified Accurated of 108 Deaths of Fifa Players and Coaches in Six Months 2021
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