2023 Look Ahead / Alcohol & Exercise / Early Specialisation Discussion / Damar Hamlin
The Real Science of Sport Podcast
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Is the Risk of COVID in Young Athletes Higher or Lower?
There was as usual an army of people who said well it must be the vaccine I mean we're living in a time now, we have you trip over Iraq and break your arm, it's the vaccines fault to some people. It's not impossible that there is a small increase in risk of cardiac arrest because of the vaccine. The early studies on the vaccine showed a small risk in pericoditis and myocarditis,. inflammation of the heart muscle in the heart membrane Yes, those two conditions have been linked with cardiac arrests long before COVID and long before the jibby jab.
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