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If you hear hoofbeats, expect horses. What we have is a whole herd of myocarditis thanks to the mRNA shots being mandated. It's appropriate to have this now-common condition at the top of the differential.

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Covid infection also causes myocarditis

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Apologies, my reply was intended for the person to whom you replied.

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Having been trampled by stampeding zebras. Having the luxury of life because my parents weighed the risk versus benefit of receiving a "vaccine", while my classmates were dead from polio, and other contagious diseases, it seems that choice of life with a risk of a secondary side effect was a risk I am pleased to have survived. Knowing that my susceptible Indigenous and non Indigenous ancestors died of smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, venereal disease hepatitis, of which millions died, makes your argument seem petty in light of the benefits that most medical intervention provides, especially in the face of a deadly pandemic that has killed millions on a global basis. You have an option, don't take a vaccine or work in an industry that requires you not to spread the disease to others. Personally I'd rather have myocarditis than be dead from glass lungs or suffer from long covid.

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"Personally I'd rather have myocarditis than be dead from glass lungs or suffer from long covid"

Haha! So... you'd rather walk around with a landmine in your chest? rather than adopt lifestyle and mindset changes which include antiviral protocols? Ok!

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Evidence?

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Learn to use Google.

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Very cute. This isn't Twitter or Facebook.

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Commotio Cordis (CC) is a diagnosis of exclusion. Before making the diagnosis all other diagnosis must be excluded! When an expert jumps to that diagnosis first they are no expert. Given the high correlation between mRNA vaccines and myocarditis in young males and the high prevalence of mRNA vaccines: CC is the zebra. The diagnosis really will require a multitude of different imaging, enzymatic, and antigen antibody testing to make a diagnosis. It is more than likely that almost all cases of CC represent a failure to diagnose the underlying pathology. As new tests are developed the incidence of true CC will certainly decrease.

Mr. Hamlin’s short term recovery will be determined by how much cerebral perfusion remained during the arrhythmia and how long until the hypoxia was reversed. Hats off to the CPR team and

prayers for Mr. Hamlin!!

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Can you explain why it is a 'diagnosis of exclusion'? Why is that diagnosis special such that literally every other potential diagnosis has to be excluded first?

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“ We have more than enough quality science to this effect: the myocarditis concern in this cohort is substantial (in this JAMA article out of Canada, a commonly-reported 1/3000 clip),”

Really? Well, all of mainstream medicine (save you perhaps) have ignored the implications of this god awfully high rate of serious injury.

Name a single vaccine that damages one in 3k healthy young person that isn’t taken off market immediately — let alone mandated. Can you?

Your profession has defiled the definition of “safe” to the point of absurdity.

You deserve that Steve Kirsch and others have filled the discursive vacuum physicians created by failing to reckon with reality. Your colleagues continue to call “safe” and administer a vaccine that unprecedentedly damages so many young hearts.

Congratulations, docs: Steve Kirsch is a creature of your creation. The most dangerous “conspirators” wear white coats and gleefully inject this nonsense into healthy young athletes who never needed it.

Do you seriously think we’re gonna let that pass?

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If we're sticking to the facts: Is it a fact that mRNA injections injure every couple of thousand young male hearts? If so, I'm not sure what do with that fact. It doesn't penetrate. Doesn't change practice or policy. Doctors carry on injecting young healthy males as if it isn't a fact, never was a fact.

Steve Kirsch makes more sense than an entire medical profession colluding to will this safety signal out of existence. Here's how they do it:

"Our New Analysis of Myocarditis after Vaccination: Combining 85 year old women with 20 year old men is Bad Medicine"

https://sensiblemed.substack.com/p/our-new-analysis-of-myocarditis-after

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"I am not a cardiologist, and have only passing knowledge of post-arrest care and prognosis. “Humility” is the operative word here."

I find it odd that humility led you to know definitely that Dr McCullough's assessment is not factual as opposed to being his professional assessment of mrna vaccines (this is eerily similar to Fauci's science is me, anyone who disagrees is non-factual ) I find it odd that Occam's razor doesn't tell you the cardiologist is very likely to be right. I find it odd that you would use a wrong standard in your argument, specifically that you have to prove that these vaccines are dangerous. In fact the "carefully curated" study has to be done on volunteers before the first dose of the vaccine is given (never mandated) to anyone else.

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McCullough is a meticulous researcher and goes where the available data take him. As an NIH funded and vaccine safety trials Principal investigator, infectious disease epidemiologist, and leading cardiologist, I dare say he knows what he is talking about and represents data very honestly. His sub stack and publications archive is a treasure trove of extremely important studies that physicians would find highly informative. He gets into the weeds where those with training in immunology, cellular biology, virology understand what is currently being categorically dismissed by our public health policy makers who I can also say authoritatively are not acting in our best interest,

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I so agree. Many loud voices on both sides of the conventional vaccine wisdom have repeatedly made statements which make it clear they are more interested in supporting their ideology than speaking scientific truth. Once a public figure like McCullough does that a couple times, I tune them out as reliably unreliable, no matter their brilliance or pedigree.

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But he hasn't--he has spoken with the currency of science---ie studies that support his opinion.

Where were you when Dr Fauci , Birx et al were supporting/pushing/ threating about the use of masks, 6 feet distance rules and lockdowns?--NONE which are supported by studies

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Have you ever listened to Dr. McCullough? He backs up his statements with facts as well as multiple published studies. He has a command of the relevant scientific literature.

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Congratulations on another article that is worth everyone reading

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The mRNA experiment has failed. The information which has been disclosed, which we know is not the whole truth, is that these products have caused more injuries than all other vaccines combined, and twice as many deaths -- so far.

It is a fundamental matter of medical ethics that when an experiment on human beings has failed, or even shows signs of failure, it must be stopped.

Because the mRNA experiment has failed, it must be stopped. There is no rational argument to contrary, and this ought not be politicized. If we are going to follow the science, we must follow the science, including, but not limited to, the hard evidence and our guiding principles. We must avoid the traps of our biases.

We will, of course, have to begin the process of legal redress. No one, not the government, not the chemical companies, and not the medical industry stooges, had any valid basis to claim to the public that these "vaccines," which are not even "vaccines," are "safe and effective." That was a snow job which served only to profit the chemical companies, if not other even more sinister ends. For this blatant fraud, which has killed and injured so many, there must be retribution.

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To everyone who took the experimental quasi-prophylaxis I ask: what did the Informed Consent say which you signed? I bet it was lengthy! Very brave of them! #InformedConsent

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I agree with your assessment. I don't discount the possibility of any of your scenarios, including that of vaccine injury. What animates many of the people like myself (I have not taken the Covid vaccine and have no plans to do so) is the near incessant drumbeat of politicians telling us to get vaccinated, and the bombardment of Pfizer commercials for their product. I believe that there is more risk than benefit to these shots and have survived Covid once. I have learned of ways to bolster my immune system in the hopes of being able to fend off another infection. All that said, I agree with you that the people who have the most right to be concerned about what caused Damar to suffer this medical emergency are Damar and his family. I wish him only the best care and a speedy and complete recovery. Thank you for sharing your research and insight.

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Commotio Cordis as a SINGULAR cause of Hamlin's event is highly unlikely to me. Why? Watch the video and tell me how this impact to his heart can be equated to a "high speed projectile such as a hockey puck or baseball directly impacting the heart." It CANNOT EVER be equated. One player traveling 15-20 mph striking another player in the heart area while the receiving player is moving away and to the side from the impact as the impact is coming in is NOT and will NEVER be equal to a 100mph+ baseball or hockey puck directly impacting the heart. I can't believe so called experts would make such a claim. It's embarrassing to themselves. I am open to the idea that Commotio Cordis occurred here as a result of a weakened heart caused by a pre-existing abnormality or as the result of a weakened heart caused by myocarditis brought on by the mRNA vaccine or by commotio cordis brought on by a combination of both, but I find the notion of commotio cordis brought on exclusively by the impact to be wholly unconvincing. Equating this hit to a baseball or hockey puck is on its face absurd to me.

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What we learned is no one is allowed to ever ask any questions of official narratives. This is basically how you know you live under the thumb of totalitarianism.

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The fact that you did not include possible mRNA vaccine injury as one of your more likely scenarios, says it all.

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I didn’t mean to imply that at all; I rather lean towards Option #3 as most likely, despite it not being widely recognized, and that means congenital heart conditions (most likely) or a sub-acute post-viral myocarditis or old post-vaccine or post-viral myocarditis scar (less likely) could have been the triggers, if it wasn’t true commotio cordis. I just think ppl like McCullough should know better than to claim it’s very likely a vaccine injury; that’s just on the list of possibilities.

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Thank you very much for replying. I actually heard Dr. McCullough on Tucker Carlson, and he seemed to say that the vaccine injury was more likely than the Commitio Carditis since most of those were small balls or hockey pucks to the chest that cause very quick disabling, where Hamlin stood up for a few seconds before collapsing and that professional athletes are tested for the cardiomyopathy so that was also unlikely. I think he did not rule out other possibilities, but that he stated that since heart issues in young men post vaccine are quite common that it is incumbent for the cardiologists treating Hamlin to let the public know if the cardiac arrest was likely due to Covid vaccination, which with all the cardiac tests Hamlin has been undergoing and will undergo should be information that is available soon.

Dr. McCullough has been at the forefront of telling what he thinks of covid treatments and vaccines, and he tells it as it is at the time. Because of not waiting for overwhelming evidence, he has been wrong sometimes, like when he said 'natural immunity will 100% prevent you from getting reinfected; possibly he was right with the same variant, but certainly not correct with continuously evolving variants. I prefer doctors that will give me what they feel in the latest information during a pandemic, because I am sure you will agree with me here, that waiting health care bureaucracies that have certainly not distinguished themselves in this pandemic is not an option and I am being very generous in phrasing it that way.

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Interesting read but it disregards the interests of all the athletes who are training and playing with a potentially ticking time bomb in their chest. His vax/booster history is of critical and urgent interest to all these athletes. Put all the data in the light of day so individuals & their Dr’s can make the best decision.

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So the first ever comotio cordis event occurred in the first ever season that players were injected with a myocarditis-inducing drug?

I don't know about Occam, but Bayes says the risk of heart injury playing vaxed is therefore presumably greater than the risk of playing un-vaxed.

To the more cynical, this smells like when they were told it was just an unrelated coincidence that covid broke out in the shadow of the one lab in the entire world that was working on synthesizing covid.

Finally, telling people it's "irresponsible" or "insensitive" to talk about politically incorrect possibilities doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the official line either. Especially when the politically correct conclusion (a one-in- 3 million freak event) looks more like the zebra than the horse.

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I, too, believe Damar Hamlan deserves better but when the VARs database receives such little attention in the face of the World’s biggest drug trial, conspiracy theories tend to gain traction in the vacuum of serious reporting.

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According to the above chart, 75% of the cardiac death cases involving sports resulted from a pre-existing condition. So, if Damar Hamlin didn't have a pre-existing condition, perhaps Occam's razor isn't the best analysis to apply. I also suggest that we leave the analysis to the cardiologists.

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Fantastic write-up.

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