It's not particularly surprising, considering that we encounter at least one story every day about someone unexpectedly dying from a heart attack. These victims range from young children to young, healthy adults.
From Slay News:
The researchers discovered a sharp increase in the number of “out-of-hospital” cardiac arrest deaths.
In the context of the study, “out-of-hospital” deaths refer to those who suffered an unexpected cardiac arrest and died before they could be treated in a hospital, the researchers explain.
The study analyzed this dataset as it highlights the number of people who died suddenly and unexpectedly.
The researchers analyzed data from Seattle and King County in Washington state from the years 2018 to 2021.
The dataset consisted of 13,081 patients, including 7,102 who were dead when emergency responders arrived and another 4,952 who were treated but died ahead of hospitalization or in the hospital.
The study was led by Jennifer Z. Liu, an epidemiologist with Public Health-Seattle & King County, and included several co-authors representing the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
The findings were published this month in the peer-reviewed JAMA Network Open journal.
Compared to the prepandemic years, or 2018 and 2019, there were 19 percent more people who suffered out-of-hospital cardiac arrests during 2020 and 2021, or the pandemic period, researchers said.
This is alarming, and it truly makes you wonder how much more data needs to accumulate before the medical community finally stops ignoring this problem and addresses the potential issues surrounding the mRNA vaccine and its apparent negative effects on cardiac health, especially among older people.
