While Damar Hamlin remained in a hospital ICU, anti-vaccine activists suggested his on-field collapse Jan. 2 was due to COVID-19 vaccines. But no one close to the case has said any such thing, and experts suspect something else.
Experts say collapse could be linked to commotio cordis, other heart conditions
"When I look at the video, it’s fairly typical of commotio — that is, someone gets hit in the side of the chest, they have 5 seconds where they stand up and do something, and then they go out like a rock," Link saidStill, he said, it isn’t possible to say exactly what caused Hamlin’s cardiac arrest from the video alone.
Commotio cordis is rare and mostly occurs among young athletes ages 8 to 18 who are participating in sports with projectiles such as baseballs, according to theDr. Christopher Madias, the director of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Center at Tufts Medical Center, also told NPR that the incident looked like commotio cordis.
."It happens within a critical period within the cardiac cycle. We’re talking about 20 to 30 milliseconds within the cardiac cycle that the heart is vulnerable to this."Other factors could have caused or contributed to Hamlin’s cardiac arrest as well, including any underlying heart condition, Madias said.
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