Damage control for the vaccines after Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field has begun!

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[–]Bigs 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Pro tip - it rarely happens to adults, as their chests are fully developed, so go ahead and get slammed - but DON'T get slammed if you've ever suffered myocarditis, which leaves scars on the heart that leave you vulnerable to trauma: https://substack.com/inbox/post/94528094

https://academic.oup.com/ehjcr/article/5/3/ytab054/6154461?login=false

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

maybe it's rare because it requires an extremely specific set of rare circumstances

[–]Bigs 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Rare in adults because their chest walls are fully developed. So unless you're saying this Hamlin guy had an underdeveloped chest..?

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Rare in adults because they are usually not struck extremely hard in exactly the wrong location at exactly the wrong portion of the cardiac cycle

[–]Bigs 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Cope harder?