5-fold increase in sudden cardiac deaths of FIFA players in 2021
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- Category: Covid Deaths
- Created: Tuesday, 16 November 2021 22:43
- Written by Dr Yaffa Shir-Raz
Collated from a twitter thread by Yaffa Shir-RazThe Israeli "Real-Time News" reports: Breaking news: 500% increase in deaths - SCD/SUD of FIFA players in 2021
Not 24 athletes, not 30, nor 75 - Since December, 183 professional athletes and coaches have suddenly collapsed! 108 of them died! According to the literature, the phenomenon of collapsing athlete breakdown for reasons unrelated to injury is rare.
So what is causing this sudden epidemic?
The "Real-Time News" investigation presents a list of athletes who were injured and/or died. Analyzing the list we found:
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Most athletes are males (only 15 females)
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The vast majority are 17-40 years. Only 21 are older (5 aged 42-45, six aged 46-49, 7 aged 51-54, and 3 others aged 60-64).
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23 are teenagers, aged 12-17, 16 died.
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In over 80 of the cases, such as football stars Sergio Aguero and Christian Eriksen, the athletes collapsed while playing, racing or training, or immediately after.
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In most cases, it has been reported that the cause of the collapse is heart-related, including myocarditis, pericarditis, heart attacks, or cardiac arrest.
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The second cause reported is clotting events.
We emphasize that the list we have is even longer, but for the sake of caution, dozens of cases were removed, from it in which we did not have full details, so that only the cases that were reported in detail were included.
In addition, cases were removed in which evidence of previous risk factors was mentioned, such as a cardiac disease or diabetes.
To get a better picture of the data compared to previous years, we only looked at data relating to deaths among athletes registered with FIFA, and compared the data regarding the number of SCD (sudden cardiac death)/SUD (sudden unexplained death) among these athletes in previous years, to the number of cases in 2021.
To find out how many deaths actually occurred during the last two decades among FIFA players (2001-2020), we used Wikipedia - "List of association footballers who died while playing". To know how many cases occurred in 2021, we used the list collected by us in "Real-Time News" (which includes the cases noted in Wikipedia for 2021).
Dr. Josh Guetzkow, a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Institute of Criminology at the Hebrew University, analyzed the data. "An article published in the British Medical Journal shows that the risk of SCD is one in 50,000 (with a range from one in 30,000 to one in 80,000)," he explains. "According to FIFA data, in 2000 there were 242,000 athletes registered in the association, and in 2006 there were 265,000 athletes registered. Assuming FIFA has not changed significantly in twenty years, can expect about 5 deaths a year".
According to Wikipedia, under "List of association footballers who died while playing", in 2001-2020 there was an average of 4.2 deaths per year attributed to SCD or SUD, the vast majority being SCD. In contrast, in 2021, according to our list, there were 21 cases of SCD/SUD among FIFA players. In other words, instead of 4 SCD/SUD deaths per year (according to Wikipedia data), or 5 cases per year (calculated according to the BMJ) during 2001-2020, 21 players have died so far this year.
That is, about 5 times more than the annual average!
This figure is found to be statistically significant. In fact, there is no other year since 2001 where the difference between the number of observed cases of SCD/SUD and the expected number is statistically significant.In 2021 it is highly statistically significant and only likely to happen by chance about 2 in 1,000 times.
Yaffa’s notes:
Stephen’s notes:
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A quick and dirty statistical analysis (not rigorous, but good enough for a sanity check of the “this figure is found to be statistically significant”:
When counting events like SCD, we expect a certain base rate and the events will follow what is called a Poisson distribution. One property of the Poisson distribution is that the standard deviation (a measure of how much variability from random chance) is the square root of the base rate.
If we typically see 4 events per year, the standard deviation will be 2, and 95% of the time we will see something within 2 standard deviations from that base rate.
If we see 20 events in one year that’s 8 standard deviations from the mean, so 20 events is very very unusual.
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A guest post by Yaffa Shir-Raz |
As I'm reading the thread, I think there's people who without concrete evidence will never admit that the vaccines are bad for a larger percentage of the population that was originally admitted.
Doesn't matter how much percentage of heart attacks, strokes or heart issues that happen among the vaccinated you will not get anything from them.
I'm watching most of the highly vaccinated rich countries in Europe, the UK, Ireland and obviously Israel be devastated by Covid...While Africa, most of poor Asia and most of South America seem just fine since Delta became the main virus in August.
I say if you don't believe and you trust the FDA/NIH/CDC and Big Pharma then more power to you! Get those shots, inject your teens, children and babies!
Obviously, they're safe because the FDA and Big Pharma have never introduced medications or vaccines that are bad or have killed people right?
Big Pharma has never lost thousands of cases and had to pay billions in fines and in lawsuit payouts...NEVER.
They have never been caught hiding data, erasing data, lying under oath OR FALSIFYING DATA...Right?
Great track record.
I suggest if you think it's safe you continue with your 4th vaccination in less than a year because taht totally makes sense.
Please please please take your vaccinations.
In 3 years data from multiple studies will come out and then we can figure out who's right or wrong...Of course you all signed away liability with that waiver so good luck if anything does go wrong.
Africans have a much younger population. Also, hydroxychloroquine is widely used as a malaria preventative. These two factors may explain their trivial death rates from Wuhan virus.
Japan and Indonesia are getting good results from ivermectin.
China underreports their sickness rates.
Meanwhile, the West cowers and relies on experimental vaccines while banning the use and even the discussion of promising therapeutics like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.
Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine are your main foundation for success...The age thing helps but the meds makes the MAIN difference.
Yes study in Japan https://youtu.be/E1GF0H9V_1g my family won’t even read stuff anymore my brother is an immunologist and said do what Fauci says. I’m not sure if he still believes that but I have been unfriended by may!!
At the very minimum, iver and HCQ are well tested, safe and cheap. At the maximum, they do help reduce the symptoms. Plaquenil is the natural analog of hydroxychloroquine and is recommended by Dr. Zelenko, one of the top promoters of the HCQ/zinc cocktail to treat early covid19.
Dr. Zelenko (or some of his associates) has started a vitamin company Z-Stack that sells a plaquenil pill as a preventative. I got a bottle of it.
Many I don’t read my posts my bad. Anyway, I knew something was fishy when my doctor had put me back on plaquenil (the h word) saying it was safe!!! My other doctors agree.
That you do have to get your eyes checks cause it can cause serious I problem you just have to go in twice a year. When the doctor told me it was safe he said added that he only worries about very frail elderly people. I’m fat enough it doesn’t bother me
And why there now trying to develop a job for malaria then they can’t use hydroxychloroquine anymore
Oh boy! Why would you take another poison(HYDROXY and Ivermectin) from big pharma? 🤦♂️
No one says I don't believe in meds...Ivermectin and HCQ have 2 of the longest SAFEST records for use in the WORLD.
Due to years of testing and studies.
Billions of prescriptions have been given with little to no injuries or deaths.
In fact, Ivermectin won the 2015 Noble Prize in Medicine for it's multiple safe uses in humans.
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnd since both are past their copyright stage they are actually quite cheap so most big pharamaceuticals don't even make it too much.
NOT ENOUGH PROFIT TO BE MADE.
Because it’s been proven to be affective, not to mention it’s not harmful. FTA is threatening physicians not to prescribe ivermectin off label, I know this because my doctor told me. This is never happened in America, many medications are used off label every day. This is a ploy to make you take the gene therapy. It’s pure evil
I would generally agree. As for COVID-19 I am fine with my vitamin D and zinc for protection. But Ivermectine is a bacteria. It is one of these pharmaceuticals from a long time ago, invented in Japan, that is really very very safe and effective in the treatment of parasites. It has been used for many decades with very little problems. I used it for parasites.
And, without a patent, it is dirt cheap. A reason big pharma isn´t really pushing it. Vaccines are muuuch better business and the COVID-vaccines are obviously incomparably more dangerous than Ivermectine.
Not all ´pharma´ products are equal. Some, like vitamins or minerals, can actually be beneficial.
what are you talking about? HCQ and ivermectin are safer than ibuprofen.
I have Sjogren’s I started having more brain fog after I got off of it. My doctor told me that was why. Then I started having more symptoms after I got off it again.
😅🤣😅🤣😅😅😅
Is this why they are creating a jab for malaria? Ruin the stats at all costs
Amen https://youtu.be/pyPjAfNNA-U watch this all the way until the end
He's awesome isn't he?
Yes and my brother is a big Democrat the immunologist so he blames everything on Republicans. So I sent him both videos by him and said this man from Germany he doesn’t have any reason to lie. He still wouldn’t watch it
Africa doesn't test enough
You can see it in the excess deaths.
Yes and no...I agree they don't test, but I also know many of the PSR tests were so unreliable that they were useless...Some were off 70% of the time.
So why even throw that as an excuse? I could then say that what percentage of the so-call positive tests were actually false positives in the US?
Think of all the panic numbers last year, trying to scare us.
Even the WHO knew that since last year and changed how many cycles are used to test for Covid.
In other words, the PSR tests are GARBAGE and don't really matter.
https://thevaccinereaction.org/2021/02/who-issues-new-guidance-on-use-of-pcr-tests/
Blindly trust governments and big pharma? Then booster up buttercups! The one problem that solves itself.
Sad reply
i agrée, it’s a terribly sad response but it’s also our only hope. Seems like the herd is has already leapt off the cliff and the only questions left are when will they realize it and how many unwilling victims will they manage to take with them.
This is a nice post. I am sorry you are getting mobbed by all these cranks. They don't seem to understand that statistics is about inference and you are not proposing any inference here. It is perfectly legitimate to discuss an anomaly like the large number of cardiac events in football players. I have been a part of many a medical study that begins by seeing an unusual spike or cluster of events in descriptive data like the above. Especially when there are well-established pathways by which the vaccine may lead to micro-clotting it is an issue worthy of the public's attention.
I notice that these commenters are all irate but immediately start tripping over their own shoelaces when trying to do any math. and don't seem to even agree what the problem is. I don't smell a lot of actual statistical background here. Thanks for posting this interesting analysis.
Just like the election. My husband even paid to get the data so he could do his own testing. We watched what all the experts said and he complained that the reason that people don’t understand it is they have these people with Statisticians and and in general people don’t understand how important The anomalies were. He said they should’ve made the whole thing more user-friendly. Or normal People friendly. Normal people that went to school in the US.
It's a bit unfortunate you've chosen to denigrate the numerical credentials of critical commenters, whilst at the same time praising a post which posits a value for expected deaths based on a population estimate which has been misread by a factor of one thousand. That's a pretty big shoelace.
Hey Chris! Can you elaborate on this? I'd love to know what the actual numbers are, and which numbers you're referring to
"According to FIFA data, in 2000 there were 242,000 athletes registered in the association, and in 2006 there were 265,000 athletes registered" is sourced directly from a FIFA document which in fact quotes the number of people actively involved in playing football in those years as 242,000,000 and 265,000,000. This may or may not be the most significant problem with this analysis but was worthy of note in response to a comment snarking about other people's inability to process numbers.
We all know, as Mark Twain said, there are 3 types of lie: lies, dammed lies and statistics. That's why Bill Gates endorsed the book "How to Lie with Statistics".
You don't have to be a statistician or even very bright to see exactly whats happening here with all these sudden heart attacks in super fit sportsmen and women.
In fact, most predictive medical statisticians (i.e. epidemiologists) have been shown to be not very good (See Niall Ferguson's track record of getting every prediction completely wrong) and not very smart....its almost like "if you fail at everything else, become an epidemiologist!"
https://youtu.be/du7aipgaMrY More great history
excellent article. Cheers
Among the 'vaccinated' public, the biggest deterrent to admitting that these collapsing and dying situations are statistically significant is the requirement to admit that, "I was foolish and I was duped into doing this". That's because most human beings are weak, greedy, scared and gullible.
And to actually realized that the government is lying and killing people
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.10712
Please treat this with some skepticism as the doctor in question allegedly has a track record of some dubious claims - that said the American Heart Association have published it. If it's true though, there's your explanation and it would suggest based on the claims that sports people should probably take 2.5 months off after the shots, that's how long they claim the effect persists. The link was circulated by the inventor of mrna vaccines.
I don't like the modern world. There's too much fake information, but there's also too many coincidences to swallow, and the people we used to trust to investigate things are no longer themselves trustworthy.
That would also suggest that the side-effects have been under-reported. Sure it may be that for most people they are not physically active that the increased risk would be of a concern, but it does seem, on the face of that AHA publication, that there is some scope for further investigation
Mass psychosis is nothing new.
Neither is propaganda.
My husband told me there is some kind of information about the reason there’s more athletes dying is because if you have more muscle it affects you in a different way. But I don’t know where that is you can try his sub stack boblphd.substack.com
The AHA has not published it, and this is merely a pre-conference abstract. It's worthless.
This study published on Nov. 8, 2021 in Circulation states the following:
"We conclude that the mRNA vacs dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle and may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination".
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.10712
I am not a doctor but this paper seems to support that the mRNA vaccines are associated with the heart damage and/or failure seen in elite athletes.
It would appear to support the anectodal observations indicated in this post for sure
Watch the video!
This isn't actually a study , it's just an abstract. So until it's actually published and peer reviewed it's not really evidence
They're not going to publish it, for fear of the rabid lefties, removing their future funding
The AHF released the abstract of it. So the study must be there somewhere, but there is no link to it. Which I find really odd.
The pro-vax industry may not peer review it, but the study either exists or it doesn't.
The paper was peer reviewed. It is my understanding that AHA has a protocol of preventing any online publication for one year and only publish it in the subscription based publication.
I don't see any peer review next to the abstract?
You know of any copy of it with someone with a subscription?
You assume that journals are apolitical (they may not publish out of politics) and infallible (they may - often do - publish things with errors). I agree we should not blindly believe the claims of the study - but let's evaluate it ourselves rather than relying on peer review or not as the barometer of truth.
That’s a crazy statement now since the one refuting plaquenil had to be retracted!! They are just as corrupt now!
In order for this to be relevant to the overall conversation in which it's being deployed, you need to list the number of these deaths who were vaccinated, the number who had contracted covid prior (including potentially an asymptomatic case), the number who had both, and the number who had neither. Unfortunately that's going to be difficult to intuit without a lot of leg work. I do commend you on the leg work you did do, however.
That assumes the root cause is the vaccine. (I might even be sympathetic to that assumption)
Another potential root cause could be loss of condition due to extended lockdowns in 2020.
My recollection of 2020 was that the football leagues were mostly not restricted from training or playing, which would seem to rule out loss of conditioning, but in any case a full root cause analysis of this anomaly is indicated.
I published this article by Yaffa here to highlight the anomaly and hopefully trigger further investigation.
It is a fact that the number of SCD/SUDs this year is significantly above the historical rate. Statistics cannot provide the root cause, and while we can have our beliefs, we should seek to support those beliefs with data
I doubt conditioning is a factor. These are athletes and would have been training during lockdown. But I think that it's certainly possible that it's not the vaccine and instead long term damage from Covid itself that causes this. OR it could be some of both. If I were to guess wildly, a Covid infection probably damages the body a lot permanently, the vaccine probably damages the body a very slight amount permanently, but a measurable amount in aggregate, and possibly in more people than others.
Covid is a truly goofy and weird disease.
Yep. Someone needs to do the harder work of dividing up the cases by history
The myocarditis induced by the vaccine is apparently more significant and deadly than the myocarditis induced by the virus. This from Dr. peter McCullough, Board Certified Cardiologist and Internist who is closely following the data and used to recommend the vaccine to high risk groups. He no longer recommends it to any human and says the program must be shut down.
Per a few sources, the bazillions of tiny spike proteins manufactured by your cells at the behest of the injected mrna is causing microclotting, which of course, could find itself in the heart, especially with individuals who are pumping blood at a higher rate than a sedentary human. This same microclotting was happening in the lungs with covid-19 infections (also due to the spike proteins on the corona), which is why people could breathe but weren't getting enough oxygen.
If it's the "vaccines", it's the pharmaceutical industrial complex, and corporate captured gov't and media's fault.
It it's the lock-downs, it's as above.
Whichever way a mudblood tries to twist it, in order to reconcile it within their Platonian caveman view of the world, the one thing that is universally true, is that THERE ARE NO REFUNDS FOR POISONS ALREADY INSIDE THE NUCLEUS OF ONE'S CELLS 💀
Conspiracy -> from Latin, con- ("together") + spirare ("to breathe).
I’ll let this one stay, but it’s right up at the line with one foot over. The ALL CAPS stuff is not conducive to encouraging an engaged debate
Your premisses are pure insanity, you are caught is the mass hysteria.
Wake up.
The innocuity has not been solidly established.
Even if it was, any reasonable doubt should pause the mass inoculation.
There cannot be a valid proof of innocuity on the whole population.
This absence of reaction to any signal and the inversion of caution are signs of a mass psychosis.
The majority of this comment is off topic. We can discuss the rise in incidents without having to bring in many theories on the content of the injections that are being forced on the population through coercive measures that are likely illegal under Nuremberg.
Deleted. A more pithy and on-point comment would be retained
Fighting age males, who would want to wipe out a civilizations fighting age males? On an unrelated matter, China's army consists almost entirely of " only sons" because of the brilliant "1 child policy" . Every soldier represents the last in a family line, weird. Probably unrelated.
This is not a rigorous statistical analysis in any way, and is extremely misleading. There are all kinds of holes in the methodology. Why not refer to some actual peer reviewed literature? The consideration of pre-pandemic figures is severely lacking here, along with information like whether subjects have been vaccinated and/or had the virus. The virus can cause heart problems too, of course.
Sports people were collapsing with heart problems long before Covid. Look at this 2018 study about the increasing phenomenon amongst young footballers: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/08/more-young-footballers-dying-of-heart-problems-than-thought-fa-study-finds
And this study of worldwide football (2014-2018) completely disputes the numbers we see in the above analysis: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2020/12/23/bjsports-2020-102368
I wonder if you are aware of the the difference between an anecdotal report that covers more than one case and is calling for further and more rigorous investigation and a rigorous peer reviewed investigation report.
Hint: this is the "anecdotal report that covers more than one case and is calling for further and more rigorous investigation"
We have not yet seen the "rigorous peer reviewed investigation report"
A link provided by another commenter to a peer reviewed paper in the AHA: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.10712 (caveats, some question the author) suggests that there is a real effect and that consequently athletes should refrain from strenuous activity for 2.5 months after the shot...
One could also start pointing at other data sources, but that all misses the point of this article, which is to stimulate people to do the actual rigorous peer reviewed research. It is a shame that globally the standard safety trials and processes were cut short for this specific treatment... the likely outcome is that we will discover much that is not great about the treatment as time evolves...
Obviously more rigorous investigation is needed, but I think you know what you're doing here. If you had any statistical integrity you'd recognise that the headline figure of this whole piece is based on incomplete, selective data.
If you have issue with the title, please address that to Yaffa. The original title was 500% which I changed to 5-fold as while technically 5-fold and 500% are the same numerical effect, the 500% wording sounds significantly bigger.
Additionally, I added a small section at the end illustrating how one could sanity check the claims. It is an exercise for the reader to decide whether the data sources cited are ones they have trust in or not.
With wikipedia, in my opinion, the greater risk is under-reporting, so the question becomes "were the years prior to 2021 under-reported" at that point we enter the reals of how to apply the BMJ estimate to the representative sample of people who would get named... already that becomes too much for ordinary people to address.
The real question this article seeks to address is "Is it just that we are noticing something that always happened or is there something significant here"
I believe this answers the question with "looks like there could be something unusual here, somebody needs to take a deeper look"
If you were reasonable you'd demand a stop to the inoculations until a rigorous investigation is produced.
It's on you not on us.
First do no harm.
We do not have to produce a rigorous study to stop the mass inoculation.
You have to produce one to justify it.
The current rush to inoculate the covid "vaccines" displays a recklessness that can only be described as a mass hysteria.
Of course there is no highly rigorous study and the exact figures are not known.
This is because we are in a mass hysteria and we are acting upon the dogma that the problem does not exist, which is insanity.
Adverse events pile up far, far beyond any possibility to keep track even if suitable tools existed for that.
All we can do is point out statistical impossibilities outside of massive adverse consequences of the so-called vaccines, like a 5-fold increase in FIFA heart attacks.
Or a sharp increase (doubling?) in death rates.
Or a drop in life span.
This hysteria is turning into the biggest humanitarian crisis ouside of war, given that effective and inocuous early treatment has been known for more than a year.
The "vaccines" never passed the trial phase and should have been abandoned, or kept for a small minority of people at their own risk.
The 5-fold increase is based on selective, invalid, incomplete data. It's therefore worthless.
When you have an actual study, real data, that confirms your worries (hysteria, some would argue) then I'll happily consider it. At present you have nothing. Just feelings.
The mass hysteria is about inverting the burden of proof.
We are in extremely assymetric positions: You want to jab me and my children and everybody else, I don't want to jab you or anyone.
Therefore you must produce the highest standard of scientific evidence and I am rightfully opposing troubling signals. Not the other way around.
Also, every health issue happening to the jabbed must be considered an adverse effect of the jab until proven otherwise.
I insist on your being the victim of a mass hysteria because the only ther explanation os such gross absence of common sense would be shear dishonesty.
How much money do you get per vaccine administered
THERE IS NO COMPLETE DATA. That's been the problem from the beginning, here in the U.S. it's all doctored. Talk to the coroners, the morgues, the doctors and nurses who have quit their careers in the past year by the thousands. The Germans didn't know about the concentration camps either...until after the war was over and the damage was done. It's easy to manipulate the masses. Media is a powerful tool.
Listen to journeyman video get back to me and dr Campbell
If they would release the data!!
Yeah right, did you notice the 5fold increase on the chart?
First thing I noticed was that the chart was based on questionable and incomplete data.
"Questionable" and "Incomplete" data = the need to obtain more data to carry out further analysis. It doesn't = the conclusion is wrong. What is questionable is how the main stream press don't seem to be investigating / reporting on this - one can only wonder why not.
So if they won’t release data how can we present it and why won’t they release it???
Are we talking about 5 times more cases exactly since the start of the “vaccinations” and of course all athletes and international sportsmen - women are vaccinated otherwise they will mot appear in Amy competition.
So the question vaccinated or not does not even exist dumbo !
Why do the rely on Wikipedia? Is that reliable data? According to the study "FIFA Sudden Death Registry (FIFA-SDR): a prospective, observational study of sudden death in worldwide football from 2014 to 2018" ( Egger, F. , Scharhag, J. , Kästner, A. , Dvorák, J. , Bohm, P. , Meyer, T., 2020) there were 617 "sudden deaths" in between 2014-2018 (albeit not all because of cardiac problems). That's way more than the claimed 4,2 deaths per year. So I would take the above article with a grain of salt.
"Not all cardiac problems" renders your implication moot. The incidents specifically cite CARDIAC RELATED DEATHS -- not any extraneous deaths, nor even injuries. Moreover, with those incidents not occurring in the public eye, likely going unreported -- as is the wont of all corporate captured institutions; indeed, as is now being so starkly demonstrated by even the medical sector, of all places -- and the data here being concerned only with deaths per se (NB: [Viral] myocarditis has a CFR of 20% @ 5 years; 50% @ >10 years), citing absolute numbers, associated with all deaths, is all non-sequitur.
How many sportspeople use steroids, pain-killers, and other drugs?... Which, aside from their inherent risks, could also interact, deleteriously, with these so-called "vaccines" (lit., endogenous antibody therapies)? That's not even touching the myriad other causes of death that could account for the "617" number... BUT, that could NOT account for the sudden uptick in HEART RELATED deaths, which 'happen to' directly correlate with the "vaccine" pogroms ⚠
It goes to show that it really is true that if you pummel the lay populace with enough fear-inducing lies -- putatively, and according to the K. G. B.'s own studies, about two months' worth -- many will become near-impervious to any facts subsequently presented to them which contradict what they have been "re-wired" to believe. When you couple said psychological phenomenon with the innate human foible of ego, one is near-guaranteed to beguile the majority (plebes), hook, line, and sinker, after ~18 months of fear-mongering and Orwellian shutting-down of dissent.
'It is easier to fool somebody, than it is to convince them that they have been fooled.'
~ Mark Twain
I'm seeing 14 deaths in the Wikipedia page linked. There are 10-11 deaths in 2016 and 2017. Why is the 5x gap not showing here?
Because it's the socialist Wikipedia. It's not there to provide facts.
Good observation, but also what Evil Harry writes is true. Wikipedia seems like a reliable source of information, until you personally bump up against its system. I have lost a couple of information battles in Wikipedia in regards to politically charged issues on topics/people of whom i was deeply familiar. Try searching for "Paul Addis" on wikipedia LOL.
The number of deaths from SCD and SUD in FIFA registered players between 2014 and 2018 is 617. Please refer to https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2020/12/23/bjsports-2020-102368
When it comes to data collection and statistical analysis, this is truly amateur hour.
When it comes to constructive criticism, this is an exemplary demonstration of amateur hour.
This kind of data is easily searchable from sources that are far more comprehensive and respected than Wikipedia, for God's sake. You might want to start here - https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/articles/2016/06/28/07/06/sports-participation-and-sudden-cardiac-arrest. From the American College of Cardiology -
"In the United States, there are approximately 100 to 150 sudden cardiac deaths (SCD) during competitive sports each year."
Except that data will be biased as that’s across all competitive sports and not all sports are back. Football is one subset of sports that has, at the professional level, been mostly able to continue through the restrictions.
It’s not so simple to get data that is unbiased as you think
Have you noticed that we are in the middle of a mass inoculation of a highly risky "vaccine"?
Failure to pay attention to signals such as the one which is pointed out here is reckless at a time when children are being inoculated.
It it turns out to be a disaster, you will have missed an opportunity to demand at least a pause.
The FIFA link you sent says 262 MILLIONS not THOUSANDS, which then will make 5300 death expected with (already fragile) calculation
Good luck finding 5300 deaths.
please remove you article or at least correct it and show that it is total bullshit
I don't know what link you were clicking, however if you think there are 262 million professional football players currently active in the world then somebody needs to update FIFA.
Here's a FIFA 2019 report that I found (which I think Yaffa had missed) https://digitalhub.fifa.com/m/a59132e138824c1c/original/jlr5corccbsef4n4brde.pdf this says that there were 128,983 professional players in 2019... I think you would agree that 5300 out of 128,983 is a significant percentage.
I have asked Yaffa to see if there are corrections needed
Then explain your 242 and 265 in your article ;)
And you will get it.
Stephen, let me help you with this one. The link to which the previous poster refers is in the top line, directing to the original write-up of the story on Real Time News (https://www.rtnews.co.il/?view=article&id=49&catid=22). This much-expanded version of the report states that the source of the figures of 265,000 (2006) and 242,000 (2000) registered FIFA athletes is the FIFA Big Count document: "According to FIFA data ( FIFA_BIG_COUNT.pdf ), in 2000 there were 242,000 athletes registered in the association, and in 2006 there were 265,000 athletes registered. FIFA's size has not changed significantly in twenty years, which means we have to expect about 5 deaths a year."
Clicking on the hyperlink in that article to open the FIFA Big Count document (https://www.rtnews.co.il/images/FIFA_BIG_COUNT.pdf) opens a 2006 audit of people actively involved in football worldwide, with the headline figure of 265 million (2006) up from 242 million "six years ago". Accordingly it is self-evident that the assessment in the article has erroneously understated the number of active footballers by a factor of one thousand, and therefore that any subsequent statistical analysis based on that figure - ie, the calculation of the number of expected annual fatalities - absorbs this gross error.
That the figure you have found independently for professional players is so enormously out of whack with the figure Yaffa found (but misread) in the FIFA Big Count is because they are measuring different things - the 2019 document records only paid professionals, whereas the 2006 Big Count basically records anybody who kicks a ball in any recreational setting (it is, after all, roughly 4% of the entire population of the planet). Accordingly, if you are attempting a rough calculation of expected annual deaths among those two populations, it would (at the quoted rate of 1 in 50,000) work out at 2.5 professional players and 5,240 'ball-kickers' (for want of a better term).
From the list referred to in this article, of the "21 FIFA players" who are recorded as having died in 2021, the number who would in fact fall under the designation of 'professional' given the definitions in the 2019 FIFA Report you link to is a mere 1 (a player in the Jamaican Premier League). And whilst it is literally impossible to compile an exhaustive list of those within the 262,000,000 'ball-kickers' who die in a year, for the vast majority of them will be regular punters whose passing will not be newsworthy, that this study has found 21 of them is not any sort of indication that one should expect there to be anomalously more than 5,240. All the poissons in the world are not going to make up for (a) the extraordinary error of the original author having misread the number of active football players by three entire decimal places, and (b) the seeming abandon with which the authors interchange 'footballers' and 'people who play/were playing football', two populations which are vastly different. All of which, I am afraid, fundamentally undermines the entire statistical thrust of the project and renders it entirely meaningless from all but an anecdotal point of view.
Exactly
It's totally pointless and it's clearly not a correct study.
Did Yaffa ever get back to you to advise whether there were any errors in her material?
Not yet
The heinously underreported VAERS database has already recorded ~850,000+ injuries, and ~20,000+ deaths; the E. U.'s EurdaVigilance system has even higher numbers. Look up "Senator Johnson: Expert Panel into Vaccine Injuries" (Nov. 2021) -- predictably removed from YouTube; but, easily searchable.
NB: By U. S. law, if VAERS data demonstrates any correlation to trial data, in terms of adverse effects, the pertaining vaccine rollout must immediately be halted, and a phase-4 trial conducted. Of course, given that no proper trials were conducted for these nano-elixirs, it's no longer a proper inoculation program -- rather, a Jonestown style vax cult...
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*with your (already fragile) calculation
This is bullcrap. It's FAKE NEWS.
Fact Check-FIFA unaware of rise in players having cardiac arrests on football pitches and such incidents not flagged as being linked to COVID-19 vaccines
By Reuters Fact Check
FIFA is not aware of any increase in the number of footballers having cardiac arrests while on the pitch. World soccer’s governing body also said it has not seen any cases attributed to individuals receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-coronavirus-fifa-idUSL1N2SL1NJ
Have you checked the Fifa registry? There are 69 deaths in 2018 alone. I am not sure where you got your 4 from?? It seems you have collected false data.
Please provide evidence links.
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2020/12/23/bjsports-2020-102368
If you buy the full article it breaks down year by year. From the abstract you can see between 2014-2018 there are over 400 registered deaths from FIFA.
We need to research more before making bold statements that this article suggests. Ive seen many other people quoting a number of 108 deaths this season in football alone. If you fact check where is number came from, it is an article which actually lists people from multiple sports and dates back to December 2020.
https://lluh.org/provider/dilorenzo-daniel See if graph shows up. Lists Covid jab and many others toward the bottom with least problems ivermectin then above plaquenil at the top way above others the jab
please mention now the forbidden words. Every symptom clots and Myocarditis are side effects of the so called MRNA Injections
But this is from the FIFA Sudden Death Registry (FIFA-SDR), a database of millions of active soccer players. An average of 154 FIFA soccer players die per year of sudden cardiac death. https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2020/12/23/bjsports-2020-102368
That was written 2020. Looking retrospectively it is easy to find associations.
In Italy, injuries among professional futboll players also increased substantially
https://www.ilnapolista.it/2021/03/dopo-il-lockdown-piu-infortuni-e-piu-gravi-i-piu-colpiti-sono-difensori-e-centrocampisti/
This is no big shock to me. The article only refers to FIFA players, but fit, healthy sportsmen and sportswomen have been "suddenly collapsing/dying" in huge numbers during the past months, and not only in the professional arena. Myocarditis/pericarditis/mitral valve issues were almost unheard of in young adults and children pre-covid jab rollout. What's happening is obviously not normal - for those of us who've been trying to keep track of it all, it's plain horrifying. I'm not going to debate this with anyone. Don't denounce all of these young deaths out of a misguided need to be right. We're only seeing the tip of the iceberg, ie those that make it into the news.
Thank you for the article, Stephen. I, for one, think it's about darn time someone covered this.
A couple of 'snippets':
https://www.notonthebeeb.co.uk/post/surge-of-sports-people-worldwide-suffering-unexpected-ill-health?utm_campaign=a8450929-7291-4f9f-a6a5-174ba2b0d5b4&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=7a5e1f4d-7487-4731-96ca-4d9cf8d0a665
https://hugotalks.com/2021/11/10/young-hearts-part-vi-code-red-hospitals-filling-up-with-the-jabbed/?fbclid=IwAR1B-UQuC1-HM5PtXa-afu4QxTKAm4BYiaiVU3yXn2pFCWC7ml-Et_651bI
FIFA has a sudden death register (since 2014). There is no increase. Heart attack is the biggest killer in young athletes. This has been studied for many years. This story is not true.
The wiki story they got their numbers form clearly states "Selected list of deaths". They are not the total deaths from every year. Look at the actual numbers for the truth.
FYI, new treatment involves taking benadryl, and lactoferrin (colostrum) both over the counter and safe. Personally witnessed amazing result.
Here is the Reuters fact check.. care to refute? https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSL1N2T81NY?fbclid=IwAR0kw7BRHod5KjUhYzORHcaTr9ZJ59MXlZyvmhnJzs0ke4lRsxAoZRb6p1U
I will point out that the "fact check" opinion piece misrepresents this article and the claims made by Yaffa in this article.
There are a lot of other posts that also misrepresent this article and those seem to be the posts that this "fact check" opinion would seem to be addressing.
This article is published here as a call for attention, namely that there seems to be something strange and we should pay some attention to it. There is some quick and dirty analysis to support the assertion that something strange might be going on.
Yaffa is currently working with some scientists and statisticians to get a more rigorous analysis written up and, as I understand it, progressed through academic peer review. I am not sure whether the target journals allow submissions which have been released as preprints prior to submission so we may be somewhat constrained by the processes of peer review
In general beware of opinion paraded as fact or fact checks.
I think the motto of the Royal Society is an important lesson to us all: 'Nullius in verba'
i.e. 'take nobody's word for it'
We must withstand the domination of authority and to verify all statements by an appeal to facts determined by experiment.
One suspects she will have to be a very substantial amount more rigorous than the approach of using a niche Wikipedia page as primary source material and misreading input figures by a factor of 1,000 if she is to achieve the peer review and publish stages. Good thinking to put the disclaimer about journals potentially refusing preprints, it will provide a ready-made excuse in the event that it is rejected by reputable publications.
Shannon, can I suggest you research Reuters and Fact Check and see who's behind them? Question everything. Also use DuckDuckGo to do your searching, google is heavily censored as is Wiki.
Questionable.
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-coronavirus-sport/fact-check-list-of-108-fifa-soccer-players-is-not-proof-of-a-common-link-between-covid-19-vaccines-and-athlete-deaths-idUSL1N2T81NY
https://rightsfreedoms.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/covid-19-jabs-are-killing-thousands-and-permanently-disabling-tens-of-thousands-more-and-thats-official/
Well let me think... what was different in 2021..hmmm nothing comes to my mind. Let's just forget this statistics.
Ah, so that’s why i ended up in the ER a few days after my Pfizer shot. Drs had me convinced my one and only anxiety attack accompanied by shortness of breath and dizziness was all in my head!
Tech censorship is accelerating the great division. Being against the poison, I am blocked from most pro-vax BS - thankfully because the continued lies and cover-up make me angry. Frustratingly, because when someone asks for advice on Ivermectin I am unable to reply.
The evidence against the experimental jabs is overwhelming, yet people who rely on mainstream media and who trust their institutions are lining up to get jabbed. Every adverse event sees a huge effort to label the cause of injury or death as anything but the jabs.
I fully agree with this Indian doctor who describes the jabs as 'poison with an agenda': https://rumble.com/vq6wnl-vax-to-kill-off-without-anyone-suspecting-it.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=18
Christian Eriksen was not vaccinated.
Neither is Charlie whyke
According to who?
I believe Yaffa is including injured and dead in her figure of 21. The injured are not included in the denominator (Wikipedia) so the 5x is misleading IMO
What was the vaccination status of the players used in this analysis, and how was that confirmed?
It's policy. If they're still playiing, that's confirmation enough.
It's not policy, FIFA has not mandated COVID vaccines. There are many unvaccinated players on the field.
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1113811/fifa-covid19-vaccination-push
As you see in that article, it is difficult to travel between countries without having gotten the shot. While they may not be personally mandating it, for all extents and purposes it has become impractical to work internationally and not have the shots. My guess is that the number of unvaxxed is quite low and that there was a wave of freshly vaxxed as the mandates started popping up everywhere. So the concern still stands, though this is definitely relevant information. I'm glad to hear the FIFA is defending personal medical choice. Here's an article that further illustrates what the soccer players must confront: https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/ap-source-fifa-talks-qatar-easing-vaccine-mandate-80397379
All of which may be true but there is no evidence that a significant proportion of the players used in the analysis work internationally or travel between countries.
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As you see in that article, it is difficult to travel between countries without having gotten the shot.
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It's not. COVID vaccines weren't even mandatory for the Tokyo Olympics!
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While they may not be personally mandating it, for all extents and purposes it has become impractical to work internationally and not have the shots.
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This is demonstrably false. Moreover, most of the people on the list were not travelling internationally. They were domestic players. So your supposition fails.
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My guess
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I'm not interested in guesses, I'm interested in data. Where is it?
FIFA says there has been no sudden uptick in player deaths:
--AFP turned to the German Society for Sports Medicine on October 18 to clarify. There they referred to the so-called "Fifa Register for Sudden Deaths and Cardiac Arrests" , which officially since January 2014 has been recording and documenting precisely such cases in sport.
In addition to doctor's letters, death certificates and autopsy reports, news reports on local incidents around the world are the source for the register. A working group at Saarbrücken University led by Dr. Florian Egger keeps the register in cooperation with FIFA.
...This is the most up-to-date list of such incidents to date.
According to researcher Egger, it will take some time before the cases can be entered fully and checked in the register in 2021.
Nevertheless, Egger explained: "If you take the list published on Facebook as the basis for 2021, that would be 14 SCA / SCD cases among footballers or 19 cases including referees and coaches in the past four months in comparison with our currently recorded adjusted data."
He stated: "Even if we extrapolate these two figures for the entire year 2021, there would still be fewer heart emergencies in football than in the pre-Corona year 2018." The sports doctor made it clear:
"The claim that there is a dynamic in there cannot be derived from our data or other international registry studies. No more deaths among footballers than before the COVID-19 pandemic."
...This was also confirmed by Prof. Dr. med. Tim Meyer told AFP. He is chairman of the medical commission of the German Football Association (DFB) and team doctor for the German national team.
..."From my point of view, the claim that deaths in sport or especially in football have increased after the introduction of the Covid-19 vaccinations has no substance. Corresponding evidence is not found or alleged evidence turns out to be false."
https://faktencheck.afp.com/http%253A%252F%252Fdoc.afp.com%252F9QJ9TJ-1
Where is the list of FIFA registered players that was used for this analysis?
Is it 4 weeks after their vaccination?
Well, there must be at least one measurable impact, of these relativley new experimental medications, everybody and their children are pushed into, lateley. - Since it completeley fails in all important categories, that would belong to a vaccination - It might be just for killing some people?
I've given up on warning or trying to discuss Covid and the wonderful super safe "Vaccines."
They have come for our jobs, our ability to go to church, go to eat, buy food, travel, down to some places being fined for drinking coffee on a park bench or beach.
They refuse to look at data given by the FDA itself where they themselves admit to making many mistakes or saying the opposite of what their own data says.
They call us "Plague Rats" threaten to take our kids or quarantine us.
Fine...STILL NOT GOING TO TAKE THAT GARABGE...But I'm going to get my pound of flesh.
We're 3 weeks behind Europe in the Spike...We will see it hit the US soon.
I expect the old and the sick unvaxxed to get hit hard...But honestly that's NORMAL for any pandemic.
What I expect is a HUGE spike with the vaxxed but AMONG THEIR YOUNG AND PREVIOUSLY HEALTHY.
Children, teens, young adults under 35.
I expect a breakdown of immune systems...Not for all obviously...But a sizable percentage.
They'll try to blame the new variant...Try to keep blaming the unvaxxed but deep down people know they're being lied to...They know they may have hurt their old folks and young children.
I want sad tears and sobbing of shame...I want the kind of guilt that hurts till the end of their lives.
That's all...In the meantime, I'm retired, have my things squared away and just going to watch this sh*tshow from afar.
Their First Step?...Have zero unvaxxed so no one can compare the difference.
Step Two ?...Blame all spikes on the unvaxxed to use us as scapegoats.
Why are the vaccine advocates not watching the videos I posted and commenting???
Someone watch the journeyman I posted comments please
More history https://youtu.be/du7aipgaMrY
https://www.rt.com/usa/540667-pfizer-fda-vaccine-data-lawsuit/ More history
Follow dr john Campbell, and darkhorse podcast clips. Remember they have to censor themselves
Again you are trusting these people https://www.rt.com/usa/540667-pfizer-fda-vaccine-data-lawsuit/
https://thewatchtowers.org/rare-video-clip-of-mike-wallace-on-the-us-sunday-news-program-60-minutes-flu-vaccines-it-was-only-aired-once/ How about a history lesson
https://www.westernjournal.com/fda-asks-delay-vaccine-data-release-2076-lawsuit/
How can you trust them!!! https://www.thewellnessway.com/cdc-and-fda-withhold-data-used-to-make-policy/
Doubters watch the end of this! Reason why they are pushing it, also tracking and Gates weird ideas!!! https://youtube.com/watch?v=h5xqP-aPwOU&feature=share
It’s still up I can’t believe it!! https://youtu.be/pyPjAfNNA-U
https://youtu.be/pyPjAfNNA-U This is very important listen until the end. Unfortunately the interviewers make him repeat himself but near the end he says it like it is and notice I think it was 10 doctors who signed the letter!!
BTW Malone inventor of mRNA technology not the jab. Received the jab and had Covid now has long Covid
https://rumble.com/vp88cg-dr.-robert-malone-pfizer-ceo-knows-vaccine-probably-killed-tens-to-hundreds.html
Do we get cancelled here? My husband was keeping data studies and they took his LinkedIn account away!
May I point to various researchers to Denmark? Why Denmark? Hamlet aside, there is a population subgroup that is almost 100% vaccinated. The elders.
Secondly, Denmark had no public emergency, no hospitals being overloaded, no lockdowns.
Please look at the table in https://www.academia.edu/60731430/The_Pandemic_Course_in_Denmark
The elders are dying in excess at a dramatic rate and it does not seem to stop.
In fact, if we were to scale up, from Denmark to EU, Denmark has a 1 mil population over 65 and almost 3000 excess deaths in the weeks after the completion of the vaccination campaign.
EU has 100 mil of people over 65. And if the same excess death would be as in Denmark, then this would yield close to 300 000 elders died in excess over the 2015-2019.
WHO recently said the vaccines saved close to 500 000 deaths in Europe. Really?
Everyone should be looking at this topic.
Seriously doing a research based on wikipedia page? Wow, what a joke.
Potato comment.
Well you can't trust CDC data, so where do you go? At least Wikicrap is sourced well.
Wow the coldness of these ppl arguing. It’s really a shame
'3 FIFA PLAYERS COLLAPSE ON PITCH AFTER TAKING NEW HERBAL SUPPLEMENT.
EMA halts all sales and initializes immediate investigation. FDA to follow suit.'
@JorJorWell
Safe and effective
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