“At least 7 teens have died playing football this year
In the earliest death this season, 14-year-old Hezekiah Walters from Tampa, Florida, collapsed while running drills June 11 and died, Fox News reported.
Sixteen-year-old Peter Webb in Oklahoma and 17-year-old Alex Miller in West Virginia collapsed on the field during separate football games on the same night — Sept. 13, CBS News reported. Miller was taken to a hospital but later died, WOWK reported. A
Another 16-year-old, Kadin Roberts-Day, collapsed during an indoor football practice Sept. 4, according to KCTV. He reportedly went into cardiac arrest before dying.
Skylar Lasby, a 12-year-old seventh-grader in Michigan, died after collapsing during a no-contact drill Aug. 28, WZZM 13 reported. Lasby “suffered a sudden cardiac death from an abnormal heartbeat.”
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article235475212.html
Oh wait, all of these stories are from 2019 and this is just another moronic anti-vax post by someone who is almost certainly a chuckling liberal smiling as he tries to kill off conservatives.
First off “football” in this context is soccer, not American football, but here are the stats for 2021:
353 unusual health events among athletes total (so far, at least the ones who made the news) for 2021 (from age 16-53). 238 of these events occurred in athletes 35 and younger. 146 aged 25 and under, and 93 were aged 20 and under.
177 collapses during practice, training, game, or immediately after
167 heart related events (107 heart attacks, 12 myocarditis, 7 pericarditis, 5 arrhythmia)
Other events: 13 clots, 9 strokes, 4 seizures
192 total deaths
130 unusual Soccer events including: - 89 collapses during game or training - 80 are under the age of 25 - 72 mention heart issues (46 cardiac arrest, 3 arrhythmia, 5 myocarditis/pericarditis) - 62 deaths (39 deaths age 30 and under)
30 unusual Football health events including: - 21 younger than 20 - 22 deaths - 16 collapses happened during games or training - 7 cardiac-related, 3 seizure-related
26 unusual Running/track related events: - 17 deaths - 14 cardiac events - 17 happened during training or in races/meets
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