Dominican basketball player ‘suffers fatal heart attack during stress test after claiming mandatory COVID-19 vaccination caused him to develop myocarditis, causing him to collapse in 2021’
- A Dominican basketball player died this week of an apparent heart attack
- The 28-year-old previously said he contracted myocarditis from the COVID vaccine
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A Dominican basketball player died this week of an apparent heart attack after previously blaming two “mandatory” doses of the Pfizer vaccine he received during the COVID-19 pandemic for a case of myocarditis.
Óscar Cabrera Adames, 28, battled myocarditis – an inflammation of the heart – and underwent a stress test in Santo Domingo this week, during which he suffered a heart attack and died, according to several reports. It’s not clear if the stress test caused the heart attack. Dominican sports journalist Hector Gomez was one of the first to report on his death.
According to the American Heart Association, myocarditis reduces the heart’s ability to pump blood, making strenuous exercise potentially fatal.
After his death, old social media posts by Cabrera Adames resurfaced, showing how he blamed the rare disease on the COVID vaccine.
“I got f***ing myocarditis from taking that f***ing vaccine (I got two doses of Pfizer),” reads part of his translated social media post from January. “And I knew it! Many people have warned me. But guess what? It was compulsory, otherwise I couldn’t work. I’m an international professional athlete and I play in Spain. I have no health problems, nothing, not hereditary, no asthma, NOTHING!’
Óscar Cabrera Adames (pictured), 28, was battling heart muscle inflammation which prompted him to undergo a stress test
Cabrera Adames was playing in a Spanish amateur league in 2021 when he passed out during a game.
“I suddenly fell to the ground in the middle of the game and almost died,” his social media post reads. “I’m still recovering and I’ve had 11 different cardiology tests done and guess what? You won’t find anything.’
According to WebMD, there have only been about 1,000 cases of myocarditis in people who received the vaccine. Most patients with myocarditis developed disease within a few days of vaccination and recovered quickly.
“Most cases of myocarditis go away on their own,” says an article from Johns Hopkins Medicine, a hospital affiliated with one of the top medical schools in the country. “Other cases recover several months after treatment.” In some cases, this condition can come back and cause inflammation-related symptoms such as chest pain or shortness of breath.
There may also be a link between COVID-19 infection and myocarditis.
A study analyzed 43 million cases by the American Heart Association and found that the risk of myocarditis after infection with COVID was significantly higher than after vaccination against the virus.
Óscar Cabrera Adames wrote on social media (right) that he got myocarditis from the vaccine
Myocarditis reduces the heart’s ability to pump blood, making exercise potentially fatal
“We have found that in this large dataset, the entire COVID-19 vaccinated population of England was at significant risk of post-COVID-19 myocarditis during a key 12-month period of the pandemic when COVID-19 vaccines first became available vaccination.” “Low compared to the risk of myocarditis after COVID-19 infection,” said lead author Martina Patone in a press release.
“Overall, the risk of myocarditis after SARS-CoV-2 infection is greater than after COVID-19 vaccination and remains low after consecutive doses, including a booster dose of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine,” the conclusion reads Study. “However, the risk of post-vaccination myocarditis is higher in younger men, particularly after a second dose of the mRNA-1273 vaccine.”
Nephew of Dominican basketball legend Hugo Cabrera, Cabera played junior college ball at Daytona State College in Florida.
In 2016, he was among a dozen men arrested by Florida sheriff’s deputies for allegedly attempting to have sex with a minor. According to Tampa Bay journalist Jenna Bourne.