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Weeks aft blaming NFL information Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest connected COVID-19 vaccines, right-wing media personalities decided to bid their latest anti-vaxx conspiracy theories connected an MSNBC anchor who conscionable returned to enactment pursuing a wellness scare.
After being “out of commission” for a month, Yasmin Vossoughian returned to the air this play and informed MSNBC viewers that she’d suffered from myocarditis aft battling a cold—resulting successful a lengthy infirmary stay.
The 44-year-old host, who said she runs regularly and maintains a steadfast lifestyle, described the “nightmare” of dealing with inflammation astir her heart, which was brought connected by “a literal communal cold.”
During the Jan. 28 broadcast, Vossoughian interviewed her cardiologist Dr. Greg Katz, who went into much item astir the causes of myocarditis and however the uncommon information tin make from a mild viral disease. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns implicit myocarditis and pericarditis person been connected the rise, particularly among younger patients.
“Myocarditis is rare, but erstwhile it occurs, it is astir commonly caused by an corruption successful the body. Infections from viruses (most common, including those that origin the communal cold, influenza oregon COVID-19), bacteria, fungus oregon parasites tin pb to myocardial inflammation,” according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Nevertheless, anti-vaxxers and right-wing media personalities instantly jumped connected Vossoughian’s lawsuit to suggest she got sick from the vaccine.
“Fully steadfast MSNBC host, who has received each her covid shots contempt covid offering her zero risk, tells MSNBC viewers she got a precise superior lawsuit of myocarditis from a communal cold,” conservative vigor host Clay Travis tweeted connected Tuesday.
Travis, who sold his right-wing sports website Outkick to Fox successful 2021, has long been a starring fig in the COVID truther movement. Unsurprisingly, helium besides helped pb the misinformation campaign of baselessly claiming Hamlin’s on-field illness was tied to COVID vaccines.
Fox News commentator Lisa Marie Boothe, who lost out connected a imaginable gig co-hosting The View because she refused to get vaccinated, replied to Travis: “We cognize what’s happening.”
Self-described “classical liberal” podcaster Dave Rubin, who’s repeatedly boasted astir being unvaccinated successful his never-ending quest for MAGA acceptance, asserted that Vossoughian was deliberately lying astir her information to propulsion a narrative.
“Absolutely incredible. Vaxxed MSNBC big present has myocarditis, but blames it connected the communal cold,” helium wrote connected Twitter. “I privation her well, but this is earnestly insane gaslighting.”
Other social-media influencers who’ve accumulated tens of thousands of followers by peddling vaccine alarmism and disinformation besides jumped astatine the accidental to mock the MSNBC host, suggesting she was successful the pouch of Big Pharma.
“MSNBC Host Yasmin Vossoughian Develops Myocarditis and blames it connected the communal cold,” far-right relationship The Dirty Truth tweeted. “Do you deliberation @yasminv is truly this dumb oregon is she conscionable dedicated to MSNBC sponsor Pfizer?”
Former World Series champion turned unhinged conspiracist Aubrey Huff suggested that the MSNBC host’s myocarditis was impervious of a coming apocalypse for the vaccinated.
“It’s my content that wrong 3-5 years the radical who took the poison volition beryllium gone, oregon volition beryllium furniture ridden from a communal cold,” Huff declared. “I don’t accidental this to beryllium mean…but the elites don’t fell the information they privation colonisation control. And what amended mode than a changeable that dilatory kills.”
MSNBC and reps for Vossoughian did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
Anti-vaxxers person agelong glommed onto the information that a tiny fig of myocarditis cases person been reported aft mRNA COVID-19 vaccinations. For much than a twelvemonth now, the anti-vaccine community—using the hashtag #DiedSuddenly—has tried to nexus the deaths of young athletes (or conscionable astir anybody) to the shots—despite the information that there’s nary surge of athletes dying.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, though, person noted that vaccines are a precise uncommon origin of this bosom condition.
“Data from aggregate studies amusement a uncommon hazard for myocarditis and/or pericarditis pursuing receipt of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines,” according to the CDC’s website. “These uncommon cases of myocarditis oregon pericarditis person occurred astir often successful teen and young big males, ages 16 years and older, wrong 7 days aft receiving the 2nd dose of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna).”
And the American Heart Association conducted an extended survey past year that recovered COVID-19 infections origin a acold greater hazard for myocarditis than vaccinations.
Of course, nary of this has ever stopped the anti-vaxx grift instrumentality from churning.
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