Damar Hamlin followup, HFDF letter to NFL Players Association urging screening for heart issues, “COVID-19 shots may have resulted in injury, compromised health or death of players”
Damar Hamlin followup, HFDF letter to NFL Players Association urging screening for heart issues, “COVID-19 shots may have resulted in injury, compromised health or death of players”
From the Health Freedom Defense Fund letter to the NFL Players Association.
“Dear Executive Director Smith,
We are writing to bring to your attention a potential health and safety issue that concerns players of the NFL.
As Executive Director of the National Football League Players’ Association, we understand that one of your primary responsibilities and greatest concerns is the overall health and safety of the players you represent.”
“Appreciating the NFLPA’s responsibility and commitment towards player safety we wish to draw your attention to the potential implications of Damar Hamlin’s multiple cardiac arrests and the heart attacks and stroke of former NFL players Uche Nwaneri, Chris Baker, Jessie Lemonier (cause as yet unknown). These tragic events signal a need for the NFLPA to visit another possible health concern that has recently been documented in the scientific literature. Such health concerns could have potential immediate and long-term ramifications for the health and well-being of NFL players.
Further attention and an inquiry into these recent tragedies is paramount as a growing body of data and scientific reports, published in peer reviewed medical journals, have documented a wide range of safety signals from the Covid-19 vaccines, including subclinical heart conditions.”
“In addition to these studies, the FDA has cautioned that some COVID-19 vaccines carry the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis, especially in young men.”
“Further, although certain health officials have downplayed the dangers of myocarditis, up until its identification as a side effect from COVID-19 injections, the condition had always been considered extremely serious.
Some have argued that cardiac screening in sports is insufficiently specific and yields false positives but the circumstances presented today differ starkly from a normal situation in that we have a known agent which specifically impacts this group resulting in long-term side-effects and subclinical injury.
Safety signals illustrate that the near and long-term health outcomes of the COVID-19 vaccines remain uncertain, however, a multitude of adverse reactions to these injections, including myocarditis, are wide ranging and confirmed, and as such, prudence dictates that the NFLPA investigate the extent to which the COVID-19 shots may have resulted in injury, compromised health or death of players.
As such, we are requesting that NFLPA commence a testing and screening program to determine whether players have been adversely affected by the injections and to develop a set of functional medical protocols and treatments in order to address and heal any deleterious effects of the vaccines. In addition, NFLPA should implement a program for long-term surveillance of treatments and recovery.
We are happy to recommend respected medical doctors and scientists willing to advise on the necessary elements of these testing and treatment regimens should that assistance be helpful.
Notwithstanding the great concern the NFL has exhibited regarding player health over many years, the NFL was highlighted as a founding member of the COVID-19 Community Corps, a federal program which gave billions in funds to members and whose stated mission was, “to increase vaccine uptake, including in underserved populations.” Participation in this program by the NFL may impede its ability to impartially assess potential health effects related to the vaccines necessitating the NFLPA’s leadership on this issue.
We also respectfully request that the NFLPA call for the suspension of NFL player COVID-19 vaccine mandates until possible subclinical cardiac issues can be assessed.
We look forward to engaging in an ongoing robust and meaningful dialogue with the NFL Players’ Union on this issue to ensure the continued health of NFL competitors.
We would love to have a follow up conversation with you and would be grateful if you would have time for a brief call. Please let us know when your schedule would permit on or before February 8, 2023.
We look forward to beginning a dialogue with you about this timely and critically important concern.”
