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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Have we done a peer-review clinical review of COVID-related morbidity/mortality alongside people vaccinated who had serious side effects? Should we? </p>
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<p>No, it isn&#8217;t the title for a new teenage vampire horror fest coming soon to Netflix; these terms relate to you and me and are the product of our post-pandemic world. It&#8217;s a world in which people suddenly die (not that we didn&#8217;t die before, we tend to do it more frequently now, or do we), where people who remain unvaccinated refer to themselves as purebloods and where perfectly healthy people (all of whom we are assured are vaccinated) suddenly keel over from a stroke or heart attack with no prior warning.</p>



<p>So why are we dropping like flies and why are so many young and otherwise perfectly healthy people suffering conditions that usually affect the aged or overstressed, overweight over 40, business sector? It can only be one of two things. Either it&#8217;s the after-effects of Covid, or perhaps it&#8217;s the Covid vaccine we&#8217;ve been force-fed, or perhaps a two-for-one deal. Covid&#8217;s side effects amplified by the vaccine? All good questions that science will provide (hopefully) answers for going forward.</p>



<p>Public opinion is firmly on the side of the vaccines as the root cause. Are they right? That&#8217;s what we are going to explore in this article, and if you&#8217;ll forgive the tone, it&#8217;s a lighter one, albeit mostly serious..</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">The numbers game</h2>



<p>I love the meme below, from Twitter, which pretty accurately reflects the current mood of the masses and who doesn&#8217;t need a smile to break the gloom, unless of course you&#8217;re one of the unfortunates who were forced into the vaccine through unofficial mandates. Yes, our governments didn&#8217;t actually have the balls to come right out and mandate the vaccines, they used pressure from third parties. Want to travel, eat, get medical attention, go to school, find housing, etc. etc. then you&#8217;ll need that vaccine. Sorry.</p>



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<p>There is little doubt that the vaccines are related to serious adverse events and death and the numbers far exceed any previously acceptable safety levels for a vaccine, by a country mile. Globally, we are probably seeing thousands of vaccine related deaths a day. Before you roll your eyes and reject this hypothesis, remember we&#8217;ve vaccinated more than <strong>13,156,047,747</strong> people and that tally climbs daily, according to the <a href="https://covid19.who.int/?adgroupsurvey={adgroupsurvey}&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQiA8t2eBhDeARIsAAVEga1q9TuKWURIA6LYau8_hZ2Zgw_P4Bp7bTQDqJ0rhD5SWzyaVPXPMowaAldeEALw_wcB" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">WHO Covid dashboard</a>. </p>



<p>That&#8217;s more than 13 billion people. Assume 10 thousand deaths a day (a hugely conservative estimate, in my opinion), many of which will fly under the radar and may not be associated with the vaccines &#8211; over the course of a year, and you arrive at 3.65 million people. A drop in the ocean in terms of 13 billion. to put it in percentage terms, 1% would represent 131 million people so it is less than 0.03% of that 1%. </p>



<p>In terms of risk for you personally, those numbers amount to 300 adverse reactions for every million shots based on my figures above. For every 3200 shots, someone, somewhere, will die. The current <a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.CDRT.IN">crude birth rate of the world</a> is 16.9 per 1000 population and death rate is 8.8 per 1000 population, so for every 27 people who die per 3200, add on 1 more for the vaccine, or so the figures would suggest. </p>



<p>That sounds absolutely dire and when we look at the reality of these numbers, we wonder why anyone in their right mind would have lined up for the vaccine. [But, remember, in the earlier days of Covid &#8211; when we faced the original variant &#8211; things look terrifying.] I think what you have just read above, however, requires context. It isn&#8217;t as simple as assuming that all deaths post-vaccine are a direct consequence of the vaccine; it is far more nuanced. To form a clear picture of what&#8217;s going on we need to understand a few fundamental basics. </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Grasping the basics brings the image into focus</h2>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Acceptable casualties</strong></h4>



<p>There is an important paradox that applies to vaccination (and drug development) that needs to be explained and it&#8217;s an unpleasant and harsh reality that applies to medicine. Create a new drug or treatment, and odds are, someone, somewhere will die from it. In many instances, more than one person will die and over the course of a vaccine&#8217;s lifetime, many people will be left with severe and permanent side effects, directly ascribed to the vaccine. </p>



<p>This is the cost of doing business with viruses and vaccines are the only currency we currently understand. The risk of the virus versus the risk of the solution.  It&#8217;s a complex equation to balance, and one that easily tips in favor of the vaccine when we face a really nasty little pathogen, as we assumed in the case of Covid.</p>



<p>There is nothing malicious in this; instead, the complexity of our physiology and our individual medical &#8220;uniqueness&#8221; is to blame. Medicines cannot be developed to accommodate everyone, and for decades we have accepted these medical casualties as the cost of our attempts to control viruses. Where vaccines prevent disease, reduce transmission, and protect the general population, the cost is considered warranted. In effect, we sanction the loss of life for the group&#8217;s safety.  </p>



<p>It is these side effects (referred to as SAE&#8217;s or adverse events) that have plagued the Covid vaccines remorselessly from day 1. </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Separating fact from supposition</h2>



<p> Welcome to the world of impossible tasks. To actually prove, beyond any doubt, why a person has suddenly dropped dead from a heart attack or stroke, we need to perform a forensic autopsy to establish the real cause of death. Yes, we know it&#8217;s the heart or brain, but why did these organs suddenly, and in the cases of healthy young adults and children, inexplicably, stop working.</p>



<p>There can be two explanations for this: Covid itself or the vaccine. Of course, people tend to look at the vaccines, given their abysmal track records, recorded instances of confirmed injury and death, a list of official SAEs as long as your arm, and the fact that in most instances, those dying have been vaccinated. </p>



<p>Proving this however requires the scientific will and desire to get to the bottom of the huge numbers of excess deaths recorded across the globe. That, and a lot of money, which in theory should be forthcoming from the vaccine manufacturers themselves, but oh, wait. We indemnified them when we defined these products as vaccines, didn&#8217;t we? </p>



<p>Where, then, should we turn? Public health-led science cannot help. It is unfortunately as compromised on the vaccine front as the manufacturers, having sold us out early in the pandemic, and asking science to help us validate the consequences of their betrayal, probably isn&#8217;t a great selling point. Our only hope rests with politicians. Now before you shake your head in despair and head off to look for a rope, I hope you&#8217;ll hear me out.</p>



<p>There is motivation here, political motivation, perhaps of an unprecedented scale. Proving parties guilty of this web of deception and profiteering would end any hopes of reelection for the incumbent politicians who were ensconced in positions of power during the pandemic. In the U.S., the blame rests evenly between Republicans and Democrats. Expose the Covid narrative and you expose the puppeteer. But, U.S. has grown tribal &#8211; each party &#8211; pointing fingers at the other, rather than rolling up their sleeves to come to an answer.</p>



<p>There is of course another potential explanation for the deaths we are seeing. They could be related to the actual virus. If that is indeed the case, or the main line of thought supported by science, then both industry and the scientific community would be invested up to the hilt in the problem, leaving no stone unturned to prove their science and medicines are not at fault.</p>



<p>Sometimes, not doing anything, is all the evidence one requires to decide where blame lies.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Establishing Covid&#8217;s Real Risk</h2>



<p>It turns out the SARS-COV2 virus was a bit of a weak link when it comes to &#8220;end of world&#8221; pathogens. So were we. Unprepared, the planet plunged into chaos in the first few months of the outbreak, fed by a media frenzy warning us of almost certain death and the end of days. The media were, of course, spectacularly wrong and not acting of their own accord, as we&#8217;ll discover in the following article. The effects were, however, of the desired nature.</p>



<p>We all cowered in fear, locked away in our homes, waiting for the promised miracle of a vaccine, produced in months and forever immortalized in the Guinness Book of World records. The luxury of time has given us a much clearer picture of the dangers of the virus. The original strain did pose real risks to specific segments of our population.  Like viruses do, it rapidly mutated, and Omicron, far more infectious and much less deadly, did in a few months what vaccines had failed to. It eradicated the original strain and rapidly spread a form of immunity and reduced risk throughout communities across the globe.</p>



<p>Omicron was nature&#8217;s way of ensuring the virus retained a population to circulate in, trading off its lethalness for infectiousness, and along the way, rendering the vaccines (which we now know were almost hopelessly inadequate) obsolete to all but a handful of people for whom the risk of the vaccine was justified.</p>



<p>The risk/benefit and risk/risk calculation for the mRNA vaccines and the virus&#8217; variant evolution was never considered at any stage of the vaccination campaign. Had it been honestly evaluated, the vaccines would now be ancient history, stockpiled in small quantities for those who needed them. Had more doctors taken the time to research and evaluate the treatments they were offering their patients, far fewer patients would have been encouraged to participate, but doctors did what we did. They trusted the narrative, unlike the purebloods.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Now, lets get the Purebloods!</h2>



<p>Not everyone fell for the panic or the panacea of the vaccines. Egged on by conspiracy nuts (some of whom history has vindicated), large groups formed their pandemic narratives, most of which shared one common thread. The vaccines weren&#8217;t vaccines (technically accurate) but instead genetic treatments to create a new lizard species, track you while you mow your lawn or sterilize your butt to prevent you from cooking up any more conspiracists. Far-fetched, but intriguing.  </p>



<p>Interestingly, recent rumors have emerged from a Pfizer employee suggesting the mRNA vaccines may actually be impacting your ability to procreate.  But that&#8217;s an as yet unproven allegation and Pfizer, for obvious reasons, is keeping mum and not commenting. The video below, showing an employee that Pfizer has confirmed was working for them, was trending under the hashtag #Pfertility. Gotta love the internet, unless, of course, you&#8217;re Albert Bourla.</p>



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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;What this gentleman is positing is immense, in term of its implications.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/RWMaloneMD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RWMaloneMD</a> responds to our latest report into <a href="https://twitter.com/pfizer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Pfizer</a> Director Jordon Walker expressing concern over women&#39;s reproductive health after Covid-19 Vaccines<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Pfertility?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Pfertility</a> <a href="https://t.co/3pOR7tXbru">pic.twitter.com/3pOR7tXbru</a></p>&mdash; Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) <a href="https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/1623049857945460736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
</div><figcaption>Video courtesy of <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Project Veritas</a> (take this with a grain of salt)</figcaption></figure>



<p>So, in the closing months of the pandemic, the global goal of vaccinating everyone had failed, despite the best attempts to inject every person on the planet, often multiple times. Recently, in an effort to further use and deplete the vast stockpiles of vaccines the government finds itself stuck with (no refund policy sadly) children have now become the latest focal point, in a campaign supported with yet more scare press from the media and manufactured and mismanaged medical data.</p>



<p>Purebloods had won, or so they thought. </p>



<p>There is actually no escaping the impacts of the mRNA vaccine. Critical mass has been achieved. In other words, we&#8217;ve injected a sufficient number of arms to ensure that, in two generations time, everyone will carry traces of the original Covid vaccines in their system. Your pureblood children, or even you, if you&#8217;re so disposed, will comingle with the vaccinated and in the heat of the moment, vaccine status will be the last thing on your mind. Trust me.</p>



<p>Need blood? Well then, you&#8217;re in luck, as donors happen to donate on a regular basis. Are they screened for the vaccine? Absolutely not, that would be intrusive and an invasion of their privacy, asking for their vaccine status. What kind of world do you think we live in? Seriously. There is a huge and lucrative opportunity here for an &#8220;untainted&#8221; blood supplier to step into the market, but you didn&#8217;t hear it from me.</p>



<p>What many fail to realize is that the spike protein produced by the mRNA injection is a carbon copy of the virus&#8217;s spike protein. Assuming, and we are still waiting for science to step in on this, that this is the root cause for all the issues people have with Covid, then those that weren&#8217;t vaccinated but contracted Covid, are in exactly the same boat.</p>



<p>And then, lastly, you need to eat, don&#8217;t you. Keep a careful eye on that steak you wolf down every week. The label on your slab of beef will very soon display, in really fine print, advice about your dead cow&#8217;s treatment with, can you guess? mRNA will be introduced into your food supply and in many instances, you just wont know. Conspiracy? Perhaps, but we know now how those turn out and lets face it, cows are far less resistant to being jabbed than you are.</p>



<p>The point here is that by hook or crook, purebloods will be eradicated and in our technologically advanced society, we won&#8217;t have to resort to anything as crude as garlic, stakes (not the cow), or wizardly spells. The mudbloods are coming.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://medika.life/sudden-death-purebloods-myocarditis-and-more/">Sudden Death, &#8220;Purebloods,&#8221; Myocarditis and more</a> appeared first on <a href="https://medika.life">Medika Life</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Covid Files: A Series Separating Pandemic Fact from Fiction</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Turner, Founding Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2023 13:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;ve all just experienced a hopefully once-in-a-lifetime event, and if you survived it relatively unscathed, well done. Looking back on the Covid pandemic in years to come, most will not remember the virus. What we will instead remember is the coming of age of social media. That, and the awful realization for many, that our [&#8230;]</p>
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<p>We&#8217;ve all just experienced a hopefully once-in-a-lifetime event, and if you survived it relatively unscathed, well done. Looking back on the Covid pandemic in years to come, most will not remember the virus. What we will instead remember is the coming of age of social media. That, and the awful realization for many, that our governments &#8211; elected and administrative &#8211; had unilaterally abused the power we had entrusted them with.</p>



<p>During six weeks, we will examine all the aspects surrounding the last three years and the draconian and, at times, absurd manipulation of the media to convey a narrative that, it turns out, had little to do with your health and well-being. We&#8217;ll examine the demise of critical science, which some would argue is already long gone, but the pandemic brought it home. Covid shots and tech (mRNA) will be placed under a critical microscope and the origins of the virus that brought the world to a standstill will be discussed.</p>



<p>Make no mistake; if you&#8217;ve been jabbed against Covid, then you&#8217;ve been coerced into participating in the largest global medical trial ever undertaken.  Good science weighs risk/benefit alongside risk/risk &#8211; the risk of the disease alongside the risk of the treatment.</p>



<p><em>Medika Life</em> stands for objective science and exchange &#8211; proper critical science undertaken with the goal of improving lives.  By that, I refer to sound critical science undertaken to improve lives, science that is open to criticism and uncensored peer review. Cautious science, designed to protect and save lives &#8211; to do no harm. A path that science currently, under the duress of politics and profit, has forsaken. Sometimes, science cannot be &#8211; should not be &#8211; rushed.</p>



<p>Take vaccines as an example, life-saving routine treatments critical to the safety of our children and treatments we would administer with little thought to safety. During the last two years, the &#8220;labeled&#8221; Covid vaccines have damaged the credibility of what vaccines are in many people&#8217;s minds &#8211; therapies that prevent disease and its transmission. Credibility that had taken generations to build. Ironic if you consider that the Covid products were nothing more than the equivalent of the flu jab and never a vaccine. </p>



<p>Each article in the coming weeks will examine a range of issues based on real hard data and facts, including the validity of the treatments (vaccines), mRNA technology, lockdowns and masks, virus origins, the actual reality of Long Covid &#8211; is it the result of long-term damage from the virus, reaction to the virus combined with the vaccine or another clinical pathway.   What of people who have survived the so-called &#8220;Sudden Death&#8221; syndrome and more? </p>



<p>Read <em>Medika Life</em> and enjoy access to the most comprehensive analysis of our post-Covid lives. For more than two years, <em>Medika </em>has questioned numerous aspects of the pandemic, including mandates and the &#8220;vaccination&#8221; of children and healthy adults. </p>



<p>Facts have emerged subsequently to support these views and we&#8217;d like to provide you with an authoritative range of articles to refer to that are properly referenced and contain actual facts. Our goal is to get people thinking.  Questioning is not a crime. It leads to new ideas and innovations.</p>



<p>Here is a list of reading to look out for. The links to these pieces will be activated as they are published and you are welcome to reach out to us with questions and suggestions.</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list"><li><a href="https://medika.life/welcome-to-the-covid-rabbit-hole/">Welcome to The Covid Rabbit Hole</a>: A dystopian maze filled with deception and misdirection. </li><li><a href="https://medika.life/the-covid-global-clinical-trials-for-mrna-thank-you-for-participating/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Covid Global Clinical Trials for mRNA. Thank you for Participating</a>.</li><li><a href="https://medika.life/when-is-a-vaccine-not-a-vaccine/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">When is a vaccine not a vaccine?</a></li><li><a href="https://medika.life/on-the-origin-of-covid-with-apologies-to-darwin/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">On the Origin of Covid, with apologies to Darwin</a></li><li><a href="https://medika.life/covids-elephant-in-the-room-we-must-address-it/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Covid&#8217;s Elephant in the Room</a></li><li>Sudden Death, Pure Bloods, Myocarditis and more.</li><li>Lockdowns and Mandates, Politics, Medicine and Orwell.</li><li>The Demise of Freedom of the Press and Censorship.</li><li>Is Long Covid a real thing?</li><li>Learning to trust again in a post-Covid society?</li></ul>
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		<title>Football Player Hamlin’s On-field Collapse Reminds Me to Know CPR</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Hunter, MD]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2023 17:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>THE ON-FIELD COLLAPSE AND CARDIAC ARREST of National Football League (NFL) safety Damar Hamlin after a tackle on “Monday Night Football.” The football player Hamlin’s on-field collapse reminds me to know CPR.</p>
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<p id="f817"><strong>I WAS SHOCKED AS I WATCHED THE&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://www.nfl.com/news/bills-safety-damar-hamlin-in-critical-condition-after-collapsing-on-field-buffal" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"><strong>ON-FIELD COLLAPSE AND CARDIAC ARREST</strong></a>&nbsp;of National Football League (NFL) safety Damar Hamlin after a tackle on “Monday Night Football.” The football player Hamlin’s on-field collapse reminds me to know CPR.</p>



<p id="42c8">On Monday night, I watched as Damar Hamlin had cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on the football field. Medical personnel quickly shocked his heart back into a normal rhythm. Meanwhile, distraught players openly cried, and the National Football League (NFL) suspended the game.</p>



<p id="15f9">In an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.buffalobills.com/news/bills-issued-this-update-on-damar-hamlin" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">early morning statement</a>&nbsp;the following day, the Buffalo Bills organization reported that Hamlin’s “heartbeat was restored on the field” and that the football player was under sedation at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.</p>



<p id="d40b">Just over three days later, Hamlin awakens and shows his brain function is intact:</p>



<p><a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35385154/damar-hamlin-shows-remarkable-improvement-remains-critical-condition" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"></a></p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35385154/damar-hamlin-shows-remarkable-improvement-remains-critical-condition" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Doctors: Hamlin shows’ substantial improvement buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin is beginning to awaken.</a></h2>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35385154/damar-hamlin-shows-remarkable-improvement-remains-critical-condition" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Bills safety Damar Hamlin is beginning to awaken.</a></h3>



<p><a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35385154/damar-hamlin-shows-remarkable-improvement-remains-critical-condition" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">www.espn.com.</a></p>



<p id="9459">While the American football player is recovering, Dr. Timothy Pritts reminds us that Hamlin is critically ill. Thankfully, his neurological function appears to be intact. The 24-year-old is moving his hands and feet and communicates by writing (while unable to speak — he is still on a mechanical ventilator).</p>



<p id="8eea">Hamlin’s first written communication upon awakening from his deep sedation-induced multiday sleep? He&nbsp;<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2023/01/05/damar-hamlin-health-updates-what-we-know-thursday/10991034002/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">offered a note</a>&nbsp;with this question: “Did we win?”</p>



<p id="56b5">I love Dr. Pritts’ response: “The answer is yes, Damar, you won. You won the game of life.”</p>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading" id="0eff">Cardiac arrest remains a public health crisis.</h1>



<p id="7615">Sudden cardiac arrest is not uncommon and remains a public health crisis. The American Heart Association&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001052" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"><em>Heart and Stroke Statistics — 2022 Update</em></a><em>&nbsp;</em>shows the following:</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>There are more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) annually in the U.S., nearly 90 percent of them fatal. That translates to nearly 1,000 individuals daily.</p></blockquote>



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<p id="a211">The survival to hospital discharge after emergency medical services (EMS)-treated cardiac arrest languishes at an unimpressive 10 percent.</p>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading" id="df78">Sports-related sudden cardiac arrest</h1>



<p id="d662"><a href="https://www.sca-aware.org/about-sudden-cardiac-arrest/latest-statistics#:~:text=The%20American%20Heart%20Association%20has,nearly%2090%25%20of%20them%20fatal" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Sports-related sudden cardiac arrest</a>&nbsp;(SCA) represents the following percentages of SCA by age in Portland, Oregon (USA):</p>



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<p id="5972"><a href="https://www.sca-aware.org/about-sudden-cardiac-arrest/latest-statistics#:~:text=The%20American%20Heart%20Association%20has,nearly%2090%25%20of%20them%20fatal" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Two other important observations</a>:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list"><li>The sudden cardiac death incidence during youth sport participation is approximately 1.83 deaths per 10 million athlete years.</li><li>Pre-participation screening of 5,169 middle and high school students (with an average age of 13) from 2010 showed high-risk cardiovascular conditions in approximately 1.5 percent.</li><li><a href="https://www.resuscitationjournal.com/article/S0300-9572(20)30160-X/fulltext" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Recent research</a>&nbsp;indicates the incidence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in children in the USA is 23,514.</li></ul>



<p id="f7a5"><em>Covid-19 pandemic and cardiac events</em></p>



<p id="3235">You may wonder how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the incidence of out-of-hospital cardiac events. In New York City, the incidence of OHCA attended by emergency medical services tripled in 2020 compared with a year earlier.</p>



<p id="2a6e">In addition, the pandemic brought increased delays in starting CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Despite no chance in the frequency of bystander CPR, there was a drop in the frequency of shockable rhythms, bystander AED (Automated External Defibrillator for shocking the heart back to a normal rhythm) use, and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in public locations.</p>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading" id="68ca">Timely, quality CPR is key to survival</h1>



<p id="d6ab">Within seconds of the nationally televised event, medical personnel from Cincinnati’s Paycor Stadium initiated high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on Damar Hamlin. Soon, an ambulance came onto the field to rush Damar Hamlin.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="696" height="464" src="https://i0.wp.com/medika.life/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/image-1.jpeg?resize=696%2C464&#038;ssl=1" alt="" class="wp-image-17196" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/medika.life/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/image-1.jpeg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/medika.life/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/image-1.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/medika.life/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/image-1.jpeg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/medika.life/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/image-1.jpeg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/medika.life/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/image-1.jpeg?resize=696%2C464&amp;ssl=1 696w, https://i0.wp.com/medika.life/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/image-1.jpeg?resize=1068%2C712&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https://i0.wp.com/medika.life/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/image-1.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Photo by&nbsp;<a href="https://unsplash.com/es/@designecologist?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">DESIGNECOLOGIST</a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href="https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure>



<p id="2a0a">The quick medical response likely saved Hamlin’s life. A doctor appeared by Hamlin’s side within one minute of his collapsing and immediately determined that the player had no pulse. CPR immediately began.</p>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading" id="e6eb">Cardiac arrest, CPR, awareness, and treatment</h1>



<p id="9187">About one in six (18 percent) individuals in the United States report&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sca-aware.org/about-sudden-cardiac-arrest/latest-statistics#:~:text=The%20American%20Heart%20Association%20has,nearly%2090%25%20of%20them%20fatal" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">recent CPR training</a>. Nearly two in three reports having had CPR training at some point.</p>



<p id="3280">CPR training rates appear lower in older people, those with less formal education, lower income groups, and Hispanic/Latino individuals. That’s according to a survey of over 9,000 people in the USA in 2015.</p>



<p id="bccf">Here are the l<a href="https://www.sca-aware.org/about-sudden-cardiac-arrest/latest-statistics#:~:text=The%20American%20Heart%20Association%20has,nearly%2090%25%20of%20them%20fatal" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">eaders in laypeople-initiated CPR</a>&nbsp;for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA):</p>



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<p id="8968">Non-medical professionals used the “shocking device” (AED) in six percent of events, delivering a shock in 1.3 percent.</p>



<p id="7b14">Laypeople used AEDs in nine percent of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. States with higher use rates include Nebraska (16 percent), Alaska (10 percent), Minnesota (9 percent), Oregon (13.5 percent), Washington (11 percent), Pennsylvania (10 percent), North Carolina (9.5 percent), and Utah (9.5 percent).</p>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading" id="7a52">Cardiac arrest — My take</h1>



<p id="66d3">First, learn CPR. It is important for all of us, especially those with sport-playing children. A kid can get hit in the chest by a baseball or basketball. A cardiac arrest can occur if the strike is in the wrong chest location at precisely the wrong time in the heart’s electrical cycle.</p>



<p id="23f5">Second, please advocate for AEDs everywhere that is reasonable. All malls, schools, and other well-traveled public spaces should have them.</p>



<p id="b68e">Third, never be afraid to use the AED. The machine tells you exactly what to do and will not ask you to deliver a shock unless needed.</p>



<p id="644c">I took a CPR refresher course last week. You should consider taking one, too.</p>
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