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WASHINGTON — After Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest on the field during a game in Cincinnati, speculation swirled that the COVID-19 vaccine contributed to his collapse, which led to Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz weighing in on the issue in a now-deleted tweet.
On Monday, Rep. Colin Allred, D-Dallas, tweeted a screenshot of a tweet from conservative actor Kevin Sorbo that read, “Weird how these healthy athletes just started randomly collapsing… must be climate change.” In the screenshot, Ted Cruz had quote-tweeted Sorbo’s tweet with a pensive-looking emoji.
As of Tuesday, the tweet did not appear on Cruz’s Twitter.
Insinuating that Damar Hamlin’s injury was caused by a vaccine is a new low, even for Ted Cruz. I’m not surprised he deleted it.
Damar’s injury and his recovery showed sports ability to bring us together and our capacity for compassion. Something Ted Cruz will never understand. pic.twitter.com/R6yQAfMOOe
— Colin Allred (@ColinAllredTX) January 9, 2023
“Insinuating that Damar Hamlin’s injury was caused by a vaccine is a new low, even for Ted Cruz. I’m not surprised he deleted it,” Allred wrote Monday. “Damar’s injury and his recovery showed sports ability to bring us together and our capacity for compassion. Something Ted Cruz will never understand.”
Cruz has long been a vocal critic of COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates.
“They had zero scientific basis, zero data backing it up,” Cruz said on an October episode of his “Verdict” podcast, referring to vaccine recommendations from federal officials and mandates on the military, federal workers and contractors. “It was politics. It wasn’t science. It wasn’t medicine.”
The 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, which Biden signed into law in late December, included a repeal of the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Cruz also introduced a proposal to reinstate and provide back pay to service members who were dismissed by the military for refusing to take the vaccine, but it failed in the Senate.
“Sen. Cruz has fought to keep healthcare decisions between individuals and their doctors, and out of the hands of government bureaucrats,” Cruz spokesman Dave Vasquez said Tuesday. “He was proud to lead the fight against vaccine mandates in the military, and will continue to fight to reinstate any member of our Armed Forces who was punished for not getting a COVID-19 vaccine.”
Allred, a former linebacker for the Tennessee Titans, said on CNN Sunday that every NFL player goes into every game “praying to come through that game OK, because we know it’s a violent game.”
“These are big, fast, strong men. And a freak accident happened there, one that I think shocked the country, shocked the world. That’s the downside of football,” Allred said, according to CNN’s transcript of the interview.
After Hamlin collapsed, some users took to social media to imply that the COVID-19 vaccine contributed to his cardiac arrest.
Charlie Kirk, founder of the conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA, tweeted that “This is a tragic and all too familiar sight right now: Athletes dropping suddenly.”
This is a tragic and all too familiar sight right now: Athletes dropping suddenly.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) January 3, 2023
Liz Wheeler, a conservative political commentator, tweeted out a series of statistics, writing that there have been “1,598 athlete cardiac arrests since Jan 2021. 69% fatal. (Average athlete cardiacs before vax was 29/yr). ‘Science’ ignores this. That’s why people ask questions.”
1 in 5,000 young men have heart issues from COVID vax.
Yearly commotia cordis cases? ~15. (RARELY over age 20).
1,598 athlete cardiac arrests since Jan 2021. 69% fatal.
(Average athlete cardiacs before vax was 29/yr).
“Science” ignores this.
That’s why people ask questions.
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) January 3, 2023
As of Tuesday, the official cause of Hamlin’s cardiac arrest had not been publicly released, and though the NFL reported that 95% of its players were vaccinated as of February 2022, Hamlin’s vaccination status is unknown, Politifact reported. No one close to Hamlin’s case has suggested vaccines are to blame.
In June, Cruz pushed back when Sesame Street’s Elmo, the beloved 3 1/2-year-old Muppet, received his COVID vaccine.
“Thanks, @sesamestreet for saying parents are allowed to have questions!” Cruz tweeted. “You then have @elmo aggressively advocate for vaccinating children UNDER 5. But you cite ZERO scientific evidence for this.”
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