Kirk Herbstreit retaliated against anti-Vaxxers trying to blame the vaccine coded for the death of the university football payer Ben Christman at the age of 21.
Earlier this week, it appeared that Christman died Cardiac arrhythmia, irregular heart rate and cardiomyopathy – a disease that makes the heart more difficult to pump blood around the body.
Herbstreit went to X to offer his condolences to Christman’s family, explaining how his son was diagnosed with a cardiomyopathy at 20, but his condition has improved.
The ESPN college analyst ended his initial position saying: “Too many young people are asymptomatic and ignoring the problems that exist. A compulsory echo (echocardiogram – a heart test) could help save lives. It’s time for the NCAA and the conference commissioners to take a look at that. Likes to be involved.
But an X user answered Herbstreit asking him if Christman was vaccinated for Covid-19, to which he replied: “ I have no idea of Ben and his health history and it is not a policy.
“Health cardiac-hearty cardiac is a problem with young people for generations! My grandfather-author-Brother-Myself all diagnosed with cardiomyopathy.
UNLV’s offensive line player, Ben Christman, was found dead in his apartment in February
Kirk Herbstreit called on university teams to introduce compulsory heart tests to check players
“All of this can be diagnosed with the appropriate tests – it is expensive to do it universally, but believe that it is the last time to help prevent this unhappy type of situations.
“Please do not take the little suspended fruits and do not do it on the vaccine or your policy. This has been a problem for several decades.
Another anti-Vaxxer responded to Herbstreit by saying: “This is a bit of politics and forcing people to take an unused vaccine that has resulted in an abnormally high number of cardiac malformations in young people.”
Herbstreit replied: “Everything is fine. If it’s okay, let’s go a little discussion – just for a moment.
“ That the vaccine added to this problem or not – the fact is that my suggestion to make the echoes compulsory in college athletics is due and I hope that we can get there that very expensive and I would like to use my platform and my family experience with heart disease to offer my support. That’s it.
Christman would have undergone an EKG – a test to check the heart rate – on February 10 after complaining about chest pain, with a cardio doctor by examining the tests but not finding anything alarming.
After this practice, Christman would have returned home around 3 p.m. and would have gone directly to his room after having briefly greeted his roommate.
The next day, according to police documents, Christman was found by a teammate lying on his back, foaming in his mouth and with purple fingers.
Herbstreit said the anti-Vaxxers have taken “ suspension fruit ” in a blame on the death of Christman
Christman began his university career in Ohio State, playing two seasons for Buckeyes
After this practice, Christman would have returned home around 3 p.m. and would have gone directly to his room after having briefly greeted his roommate.
The next day, according to police documents, Christman was found by a teammate lying on his back, foaming in his mouth and with purple fingers.
A police officer would have arrived at the scene on the morning of February 11 – following a call at 911 – and determined that Christman had been died for “a few hours” due to the color of his right arm.
The person who made the appeal of 911 and another teammate administered the RCR when the officer arrived.
