In a recent podcast interview, Dr. Peter A. McCullough, a renowned cardiologist and COVID-19 expert, addressed the alarming cardiac arrest incident involving 18-year-old basketball prodigy Bronny James, son of NBA superstar LeBron James. Dr. McCullough’s remarks shed light on the potential association between the young athlete’s health episode and COVID-19 vaccines.
Dr. McCullough’s comments regarding COVID-19 vaccines and their relation to myocarditis, a condition characterized by heart inflammation, have garnered attention in the medical community. He highlighted that the FDA acknowledged the possibility of myocarditis in its public meetings before the vaccines were released to the market, stating, “It’s as if they saw this coming.”
“Myocarditis, or heart inflammation, can be triggered by the surge of adrenaline during sports, potentially leading to ventricular fibrillation or cardiac arrest,” explained Dr. McCullough. He expressed that cases of heart inflammation were detected in athletes before the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, but no hospitalizations or deaths were reported at that time.
However, Dr. McCullough asserted that once vaccines were introduced, the screening for myocarditis in athletes was halted. He emphasized, “Before COVID, the rate of myocarditis was four cases per million per year in kids. Since the vaccines, the number has risen significantly to 25,000 per million.”
The cardiologist raised concerns about Bronny James’ health situation and the vaccine mandates he encountered while progressing in his basketball career. Dr. McCullough stated, “Bronny is going to a high school in California where they mandate vaccines with no exemptions… Then he goes to USC, where they have a vaccine mandate as well.
“So both LeBron and his son are a setup where if they were unlucky enough to get a hot lot of vaccines – and we know now from paper by Schmelling and colleagues there’s about 4.2 percent of the viles that are super loaded – if they would have gotten one of them, most of the athletes did not get a loaded vile, but if they got one of the loaded ones, and installed the genetic code in the heart, then they’re at risk.”
Dr. McCullough further discussed the need for detailed evaluation and monitoring, particularly in cases of cardiac events. He questioned whether Bronny’s incident was a cardiac arrest or possibly a different medical condition known as Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS).
“When someone’s had a cardiac arrest, and it’s a serious one, we intubate them and carefully monitor them in the ICU for a few days. We’re concerned about a repeat arrest,” Dr. McCullough explained. “I’m questioning whether or not he had a cardiac arrest at all. He may have just had POTS, which is a layabout blood pressure that can swing low, causing people to pass out.”
