Dominican basketball player 'suffers fatal heart attack during stress test after claiming compulsory COVID-19 vaccine gave him myocarditis and caused him to collapse in 2021'


  • A Dominican basketball player died this week from an apparent heart attack
  • The 28-year-old previously said he contracted myocarditis from COVID vaccine
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By ALEX RASKIN SPORTS NEWS EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 12:54 EDT, 25 June 2023 | UPDATED: 14:22 EDT, 25 June 2023

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A Dominican basketball player died this week from an apparent heart attack after previously blaming a case of myocarditis on two 'compulsory' doses of the Pfizer vaccine he received during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Óscar Cabrera Adames, 28, was battling myocarditis – an inflammation of the heart – prompting a stress test in Santo Domingo this week, where he suffered a heart attack and died, according to multiple reports. It is not clear if the stress test caused the heart attack. Dominican sports writer Hector Gomez was among the first to report on his passing.
Myocarditis reduces the heart's ability to pump blood, making strenuous exercise potentially fatal, according to the American Heart Association.

After his death, Cabrera Adames' old social media posts resurfaced, showing him blaming the rare disease on the COVID vaccine.
'I got a damn Myocarditis from taking a f***ing vaccine (I got 2 doses of Pfizer),' read a portion of his translated social media post from January. 'And I knew it! Many people warned me. But guess what? It was compulsory or I couldn't work. I am an international professional athlete and I am playing in Spain. I have no health problem, nothing, not hereditary, no asthma, NOTHING!'
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Óscar Cabrera Adames (pictured), 28, was battling myocarditis, prompting a stress test

Cabrera Adames was playing in a Spanish amateur league in 2021 when he fainted during a game.
'I suddenly collapsed to the ground in the middle of a match and almost died,' read his social media post. 'I'm still recovering and I've had 11 different cardiology tests done and guess? They find nothing.'

There have only been around 1,000 cases of myocarditis among people who received the vaccine, according to WebMD. Most who have contract myocarditis did so within several days of getting the vaccine, and recovered quickly.
'Most cases of myocarditis are self-resolving,' read an article by Johns Hopkins Medicine, a hospital affiliated with one of the country's top medical schools. 'Other cases recover several months after you receive treatment. In some cases, this condition can recur and can cause symptoms related to inflammation such as chest pain or shortness of breath.'
There may also be a connection between COVID-19 infection and myocarditis.
In one study, 43 million cases were analyzed by the American Heart Association, which found that the risk of myocarditis was substantially higher after being infected with COVID rather than being vaccinated against the virus.
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Óscar Cabrera Adames wrote on social media (right) that he got myocarditis from the vaccine

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Myocarditis reduces the heart's ability to pump blood, making exercise potentially fatal

'We found that across this large dataset, the entire COVID-19-vaccinated population of England during an important 12-month period of the pandemic when the COVID-19 vaccines first became available, the risk of myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination was quite small compared to the risk of myocarditis after COVID-19 infection,' lead author, Martina Patone, said in a news release.
'Overall, the risk of myocarditis is greater after SARS-CoV-2 infection than after COVID-19 vaccination and remains modest after sequential doses including a booster dose of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine,' read the study's conclusion. 'However, the risk of myocarditis after vaccination is higher in younger men, particularly after a second dose of the mRNA-1273 vaccine.'
Cabera, the nephew of Dominican basketball legend Hugo Cabrera, played junior college ball at Daytona State College in Florida.
In 2016, he was among a dozen men arrested by Florida Sheriff's deputies for allegedly attempting to have sex with a minor, according to Tampa Bay journalist, Jenna Bourne.

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