Inherited Risk of Sudden Death Triggered by COVID-19 Vaccination
SCN5A Channelopathy Variants Give Clues for Who May be Next
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
I mentioned on Tucker Carlson last week in commentary on Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin that genetic conditions will be considered. There is an array of known sodium, potassium, and other ion channel mutations in the heart that pose a genetic proclivity to sudden death. In severe mutational cases, the channelopathy is the sole determinant. Many other circumstances, the baseline abnormality and then a superimposed insult to the heart. Two papers (Lim from Korea, Ittiwut from Thailand) now have found that SCN5A variants for cardiomyocyte channels by genetic assessment or by clinical determination on ECG (Brugada pattern) explain cases of sudden death after vaccination.
The Brugada pattern and sudden death is known to be triggered by fever, thus the reactogenic phase of vaccination with fever itself may explain the initiation of VT/VF and cardiac arrest.
I am disappointed that world class electrophysiology research departments at US medical schools are being outclassed by investigators in Asia. COVID-19 vaccine induced myocarditis and sudden death should be a top research priority for every cardiology division in the country at this time.
These papers raise the concept that not all patients after the injection or those with manifest COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis are at risk for sudden death. In my clinical practice I incorporate genetic testing for channelopathies to fine tune the prognosis for patients. Let’s hope Damar Hamlin gets high quality of care and critical thinking by electrophysiologists who understand the COVID-19 vaccine induced myocarditis can be fatal in the setting of a channelopathy such as SCN5A and probably many others.
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Why would any research that poses a threat to big pharma be conducted here in the states when they and the NIH have so much to lose? I'm kind of surprised Dr. M that you would even think they'd consider it - Trust the people who have nothing to gain - and that's most likely researchers from other countries who don't benefit from big Pharma's largess. As far as this football player - if he's smart, he'll bypass the NFL doctors many of whom are there because of who they know - and seek out the best - because this is his life we are talking about - Every single day there's another story of a sudden death of a high school athlete - disgraceful - the solution is for everyone to say no to the shot. The child I know with the blood clot in the liver? Well - seems plan a and b didn't work - all they've succeeded in doing is lowering her BP - and the physicians claim she could have been born with it - - of course they'd say that. A perfectly healthy child given this shot and afterwards this blood clot. And her cousin now with myocarditis as well. I'm so disgusted with the medical profession as a whole. When parents start suing and people stop taking the booster - then this madness will end. Not before, in my opinion.
Outside of the 2% of doctors that are critical thinkers, western medicine is dead. Dr. McCoulough, you can see it in your young colleagues - they are ideologically-driven idiots, with no moral compass. It does not surprise me in the least that no studies are being done here. Thanks for always reporting the truth. Peace.