Award-winning actor suffered vaccine-induced stroke, top cardiologist suggests

Award-winning actor Jamie Foxx’s mysterious medical condition may actually be a stroke caused by the COVID-19 vaccine, suggests a world-class physician.

Foxx was hospitalized on April 12th for an undisclosed medical condition. His family has been tight-lipped about the nature of the “medical complication” but recent reports from TMZ indicate the actor is in a rehabilitation center which specializes in recovery from strokes, traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, and cancer.

Dr. Peter McCullough, known as one of the most cited cardiologists in history, said earlier this month that he spoke privately with Foxx about his condition.

“He must have had a significant stroke or complications,” Dr. McCullough told Dr. Drew Pinsky and Dr. Kelly Victory on Ask Dr. Drew. “I know Jamie, he took pictures with me. We had a private conversation about COVID, the risks and what have you. So he’s going to have to have his own way to communicate a personal health crisis with the public.”

“He's a great guy, I really respect him. Terrific actor,” the cardiologist continued. “We wish him the best, but you know, stroke in a young person again raises concerns because the vaccines are associated with stroke.”

He cited a study published in June 2022 which found an increased risk of cerebrovascular disease, such as strokes, and coagulation disorders involving low platelet counts in the 28 days following the Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines.

Dr. Victory agreed, adding that she is seeing “an unprecedented number of young people with sudden deaths”.

The three physicians also discussed 24-year-old NFL player Damar Hamlin, who in January suffered a sudden cardiac arrest on the field. While the COVID-19 vaccines have been shown to correlate with cardiac events, particularly in athletes, news media diagnosed Hamlin with commotio cordis, a condition so rare that media corporations struggled to find doctors to confirm it.

“I've been watching football my whole life and I've never seen this happen. This is so incredibly rare, it’s like winning the Powerball or getting hit by lightning twice,” Dr. Grant Simons told Buzzfeed. “There's about a 30th of a second that the heart is even vulnerable to this. So not only does the hit have to be in the right spot on the heart and the right amount of force, it also has to be perfectly timed.” 

Even the Los Angeles Times acknowledged “it takes ‘the perfect storm’ of circumstances to result in the death of a seemingly healthy young person” explaining "that if hit in exactly the right place (where the right ventricle receives blood from the right atrium) and at exactly the right instant (a 20-millisecond span when the walls of the heart are gearing up for their next pump), the stricken ventricles will begin to beat fast and erratically.” 

Hamlin hesitatingly told reporters last month that it was indeed commotio cordis, but physicians are not convinced.

“The narrative now is that we're supposed to believe that his cardiac arrest was a result of commotio cordis,” Dr. Victory said on Ask Dr. Drew. “I don't find it a plausible explanation in any way, shape or form. I hope for his sake that he has an implanted defibrillator because I think that the risk of his having a repeat event is high,” she added.

Dr. McCullough agreed, saying that commotio cordis has never happened before in the history of the NFL. This is not only because it is a rare condition which affects up to 20 Americans annually, but because the pads worn by football players protect their breast bones. The disease would be more plausible, he said, in baseball, where a ball might hit a player in the chest at exactly the right spot with enough force. Hamlin, however, had tackled another player, got up, and then collapsed.

Dr. Drew Pinsky added that commotio cordis also “is rarely, rarely in adults” and happens primarily to adolescents who have “thin chest walls”.

Players who suffer vaccine-induced cardiac events like myocarditis are implanted with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) to prevent repeat events. But reports suggest that Hamlin was not given an ICD because commotio cordis does not necessitate that.

“Believe it or not, he's going to be the first player in history, according to what's been publicly stated, to have commotio cordis playing pro football, have a primary arrest on the field, and return with no ICD. So he's setting all records,” said Dr. McCullough, who expressed concern that Hamlin will suffer a repeat arrest.