July 28, 2022 - Epoch Times
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| Good evening, and right before we dive in, I wanted to quickly mention that just a few days ago, over on Epic TV, we published an awesome, exclusive, almost two-hour-long documentary detailing the real story of January 6th, something that you will frankly never see on the legacy media. | |
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| And now let's dive into today's main topic, which has to do with this right here, the human heart. | |
| And it goes without saying that the heart is an absolutely vital organ, the beating of which is quite literally what ensures our survival. | |
| However, as you might have seen in some recent news headlines, the hearts of some otherwise healthy individuals just sometimes mysteriously stop beating. | |
| Now, the umbrella term for this condition is called sudden adult death syndrome, or sometimes sudden arrhythmia death syndrome, both of which are abbreviated as SADS. Now, most of the people in this country have heard of SIDS before, which is sudden infant death syndrome, but very few people have heard about SADS. Well, that is, until recently. | |
| SADS is a condition wherein you have a young teenager or a young adult suddenly die, a pathologist does an autopsy but doesn't find the cause of death, and then after everything else is ruled out, when the cause of death cannot be confirmed, the case is labeled as being SADS, sudden adult death syndrome. | |
| Now, even though many people have learned about SADS only recently, it's technically not a new phenomenon. | |
| In fact, the SADS Foundation was established all the way back in 1991 in order to further SADS research, as well as to support the family members of those who've died. | |
| And just a few days ago, in order to learn more about SADS, Such as what causes it, how many cases there are per year, and whether or not there's been an uptick since the year 2020, I got a chance to speak with Dr. | |
| Michael Ackerman, who is a genetic cardiologist over at the Mayo Clinic, and he is also currently the president of the SADS Foundation. | |
| And here's what he said. | |
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| And now, here's Dr. | |
| Michael Ackerman. | |
| Can you please briefly introduce it? | |
| What does SADS stand for, and how does it generally manifest? | |
| Yeah, so SADS stands for, as an acronym, sudden arrhythmia death syndromes, or SADS. And so there's a distinction. | |
| So we have what's called the SADS Foundation, which I happen to serve as president of the board of the SADS Foundation. | |
| Where we are a non-profit advocacy organization devoted to these families who have a variety of genetic heart conditions that share as a common feature the possibility of the tragedy of sudden arrhythmic death, meaning sudden death where the heart rhythm spun electrically out of control into a dangerously fast bottom chamber ventricular arrhythmia that results in Ventricular fibrillation and culminates in sudden cardiac death. | |
| And SADS isn't one disease. | |
| It's really an umbrella term that catches a collection of genetic and non-genetic heart disease processes that could culminate in sudden death of a healthy young person, whether that's a preteen, a teen, somebody in their 20s. | |
| And so, as I mentioned, in Europe that might get classified as a SADS death. | |
| We would probably call that in the United States an autopsy negative sudden unexplained death where the heart is the most likely explanation and the heart going into a lethal arrhythmia is the most likely mechanism. | |
| But then underneath that there would be several specific diseases That one would search for to see if there was any evidence of that specific heart condition as to the blame for the tragedy. | |
| So based on the data that you have access to, on average, how many people die per year of SADS? That's a really good question. | |
| We don't have great epidemiology. | |
| Some of it is emerging out of countries like Australia and Denmark. | |
| Where they have, I would say, much better population-based epidemiology. | |
| In the United States, for example, we have about 3,000 infants who fail to reach their first birthday, and it's unexplained. | |
| And so those are SIDS deaths. | |
| From age 1 to 35, with those age boundaries, we probably have somewhere on the order of 5,000 to 10,000 Inexplicable, sudden, unexplained, tragic deaths. | |
| Some of them become explained by autopsy, and then they're a sudden death, but they're no longer sad, or they're no longer unexplained because we figured out the why. | |
| But probably on the order of Mm-hmm. | |
| And that number is a little hard to pin down, you're saying, because somebody just drops dead, and then you have to figure out why, and only after you rule out everything else can you say, well, this is likely a SADS event. | |
| Is that correct? | |
| Exactly, because you don't really get to get called SADS without an autopsy. | |
| Mm-hmm. | |
| And you really need to have somebody trained, medical examiner, coroner, forensic pathologist, tell us the why, or at least tell us, we've looked from top to bottom by eye and by microscope and by toxicology, | |
| and I, the coroner, am still not able to give you the reason for that sudden unexpected death, and therefore I'm going to call it An autopsy negative, because I couldn't find the reason, sudden unexplained death, or we'll just lump it together and give it the term SADS. But that does presume, in my view, that an autopsy was performed. | |
| I see. | |
| So even though it's quite a bit of a range from 5 to 10, did you see any change starting in the year 2020 with the onset of COVID? And now just to pause here for another super quick moment, I wanted to show you this right here. | |
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| So even though it's quite a bit of a range from 5 to 10, did you see any change starting in the year 2020 with the onset of COVID? That's been a pleasant silver lining, if you will. | |
| I just have not seen a signal of any increase in these frequency of unexpected sudden deaths. | |
| So for example, the reason I think we have a good vantage point at Mayo Clinic is We more or less invented what we call the molecular autopsy over two decades ago where we would do post-mortem genetic testing of that sudden death victim where the autopsy was negative and then we looked for those genetic heart diseases that cause sudden death but leave no clue Or no traces at autopsy. | |
| And so we've had a large, I would say, connection or network with medical examiners, coroners, forensic pathologists throughout North America, where over the last two decades, we would get calls about a sudden unexpected death. | |
| Would you do that molecular autopsy? | |
| And during the two plus years now of COVID-19 pandemic, the phone has not been ringing off the hook. | |
| In fact, it hasn't been ringing any differently compared to the two years before the pandemic. | |
| So we just have not seen that signal, thankfully, of more cases or more of these inexplicable deaths happening. | |
| And that, I would say, has been a bit of some good news. | |
| We had reasons to think that we might see more, but that really, from my vantage point, has just not materialized. | |
| Now, just to pause here for a super quick moment, as Dr. Ackerman mentioned in the interview, the concrete data on the number of SADS cases is not exactly readily available. | |
| And so his assertion that there have not been more cases since the year 2020 and 2021 might be true, but it is based on his anecdotal experience in terms of how many people have reached out to either him or his foundation. | |
| Both myself, as well as our research team here at the Epoch Times, we're still working to find a good concrete source of data on these sudden adult death cases, But as you've heard, it's not exactly easy, because people's deaths are only labeled as being a sad case when everything else is ruled out. | |
| So that process takes a while, and it's not an exact science. | |
| And so regardless, I just wanted to mention that we are still looking for the concrete data, but Dr. | |
| Ackerman's anecdotal experience is also an important data point to consider. | |
| Anyway, back to the interview. | |
| So, a lot of people were wondering, because whether it's COVID or the vaccine, pericarditis and myocarditis are symptoms of both, right? | |
| And so, one of the questions was whether either the pericarditis or the myocarditis can develop into a SADS-like condition, like cardiomyopathy. | |
| Is that possible? | |
| Sure, absolutely. | |
| Myocarditis or inflammation, infection of the heart muscle causing heart muscle injury, that can be a substrate to then tick off or irritate the heart's electrical system and put it dangerously out of control into one of those lethal arrhythmias culminating in sudden death. | |
| So can you do sudden death from myocarditis? | |
| Absolutely. | |
| It's not common, thankfully. | |
| It's usually a chest pain and troponin leak and myocardial injury and then resolution. | |
| So the norm is not to do infection, injury, sudden death. | |
| That is definitely uncommon. | |
| But it is possible. | |
| And so you could imagine whether the heart muscle got infected by the cold virus, adenovirus, or Or got infected by a different virus, say the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which we know can happen, rarely. | |
| Or whether the heart muscle injury was a result of the RNA-based vaccines, which we know in peri-adolescent, adolescent young men more than any other group, It's about a 1 in 5,000 chance of vaccine-associated heart muscle injury of varying degrees, which we would lump together as myocarditis. | |
| But very, very few of those then do sudden death. | |
| I think it probably has happened. | |
| So if you said, do I think SARS-CoV-2 infection can do, has done... | |
| I think the answer is yes. | |
| Could the vaccine do that? | |
| I think the answer is yes. | |
| But I think the frequency of that is incredibly low. | |
| Because that's sort of what a lot of people are wondering, and I was wondering myself, because across the country you have, I think as of today, it's something like 235 million people being fully vaccinated, probably another, I believe, 10 or 15 percent having received at least one dose. | |
| And if it's indeed the case where at least among young people, one in 5,000 have some kind of a You said heart-related injury. | |
| You lump them together as myocarditis. | |
| So that's the vaccine. | |
| You also have people who are infected with COVID. Likewise, a proportion of them experience myocarditis. | |
| I would imagine even if it's a rare event, you have such a huge population size that you would get an increase in SADS, a corresponding increase in SADS. But you're saying that over the last two years, you haven't really seen that. | |
| Is that the case? | |
| Yeah, and I think it's because whatever that Tragic consequence of the infection or the vaccine might be. | |
| It's just barely above the background frequency of this low event rate tragedy. | |
| Because healthy people are healthy and don't die suddenly. | |
| And we have lots of reserve to where you really need the perfect storm for an otherwise healthy 25-year-old to die suddenly. | |
| And so I think whatever that incremental signal might be or has been, it's just so barely above the background rate, if you will, that it's just not being captured in any sort of, you know, oh my goodness way that this signal is happening with some starking increase in frequency. | |
| So I think this tragic consequence, which Must occur at some measurable rate, but incredibly low, just is incredibly low, thankfully. | |
| But I wouldn't dismiss it as a scientist who, and as a clinician, where I actually am taking care of a family where I don't have much else to blame for that young person's tragic death than the temporal association of the infection in one case, | |
| I think it would be equally wrong to be completely dismissive and say there's no way, no how, that either the virus or the vaccine could do sudden death. | |
| I think there is a way and a how. | |
| I just think, thankfully, it's a very, very infrequent tragedy. | |
| Now, what we just watched was not the full interview. | |
| That's despite the fact that Dr. | |
| Ackerman is quite literally the president of the SADS Foundation, as well as a doctor at the Mayo Clinic, some of what we discussed later in the interview, well, it just might be picked up by the YouTube algorithm and blocked from distribution. | |
| That is just the reality of the world that we have to contend with here on YouTube. | |
| In fact, to be frank with you, I'll be quite happy if what we aired thus far on this episode isn't blocked from distribution. | |
| Regardless, if you'd like to watch that interview in its glorious entirety, you can do so over on Epic TV, which is our awesome no-censorship video platform. | |
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| It'll be down there in the description box below. | |
| And I hope you check it out, because besides the entirety of this interview, I post somewhere between two to three exclusive episodes of Facts Matter on Epic TV. Episodes that you, quite frankly, can never find here on YouTube due to the regime of censorship. | |
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| I hope you check it out. | |
| And then, until next time, I'm your host, Roman from the Epic Times. |
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