What did Peter McCullough say caused Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest?

Peter McCullough said he ruled out the tackle because, in his view, a helmet and breastplate cannot trigger a cardiac arrest. He attributed Damar Hamlin's collapse to vaccine-related myocarditis combined with a surge of adrenaline, and said he predicted on Fox that Hamlin would recover. He believes Hamlin avoided needing an implanted defibrillator and suspects he followed the spike detox and colchicine treatment McCullough recommends.

• McCullough said he and Panagis Polykretis found a tenfold rise in cardiac arrests among European soccer players under 35 in 2021.
• McCullough said Danish player Christian Eriksen got a defibrillator after his arrest and had a second arrest about five years later.
• McCullough said none of his own pacemaker patients with suspected vaccine heart injury still need the pacemaker.

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“and then he collapsed. That's a vaccine cardiac arrest.” Peter McCullough · at 1:56:09 — open in the transcript →

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