The NFL Players Association has urged players to get tested amid growing concern about myocarditis linked to the COVID-19 vaccine.
The American Health Care Freedom Defense Fund has a recent one he urged in a letter the association to introduce screening because vaccines can cause myocarditis and young men are most at risk.
Most NFL players took the COVID-19 vaccine under pressure from teams and the league.
“Safety Signals Show Near- and Long-Term Health Outcomes of COVID-19 Vaccines Remain Uncertain” – Leslie Manookian, the foundation’s president and founder, said in a letter to DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the players’ association.
“Many of the side effects of these injections, including myocarditis, have been widely confirmed, and as such, caution dictates that the NFL investigate the extent to which the COVID-19 vaccines may have resulted in injury, ill health, or death to players.” Manookian added.
The manager emphasized that several players had recently suffered a heart attack or stroke, one player collapsed on the pitch during the match due to a sudden cardiac arrest.
However, many players do not want to be tested because they fear that if their health problems are discovered, they will not be able to continue playing.
Manookian wrote to the NFL that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration placed a warning about myocarditis and pericarditis on the labels of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. He also attached documents such as a study by authorities in Florida that found a spike in heart-related deaths among those vaccinated. According to the studies, young men are most at risk.
German experts have previously written that they performed autopsies on young victims who died of myocarditis after the vaccination.
“We have growing scientific evidence that young men are particularly at risk, many of whom have critical heart problems.” Manookian stated.
Dr. Anish Koka, a cardiologist from Philadelphia, said the following about the warning:
“I don’t think it would be unreasonable for the NFL Players Association to at least consider the fact that the risk of COVID in young, healthy men is now so low that they would take the risk of vaccine-related myocarditis.”