Award-winning singer hospitalized for blood clots

Thirty-year-old singer Tori Kelly is being treated for blood clots found in her lungs and legs, TMZ reported Monday. 

The two-time Grammy winner was at dinner with friends in Los Angeles when “her heart started beating really fast.” She collapsed and was rushed to Cedars-Sinai hospital, where doctors found blood clots and are searching for clots near her heart as well. She is said to be in serious condition.

Researchers have been investigating the cause for a recent “mysterious” increase in cardiac arrests and strokes, many of which are caused by blood clots. 

According to a study last month, 16.5 million Americans are at risk of blood clots and consequent strokes from too much exercise. An estimated 5% of the population suffers from carotid artery stenosis, which is when the carotid arteries are constricted. Carotid arteries are found on either side of the neck and carry oxygenated blood to the brain.

This imperils millions of people when they exercise, concluded the researchers:

[W]hile stressful exercises may be beneficial for improving the cardiac performance of healthy individuals, the same may bring in extremely adverse consequences at elevated heart rates on account of extensive physical activities for patients having extensive arterial blockages, if not performed in supervision of specialized experts.

The study’s researchers also concluded that exercise may be the cause of sudden cardiac arrests suffered by young, healthy people.

“These findings may, therefore, provide a possible clue to the apparent mystery of sudden massive cardiac arrests of otherwise asymptomatic individuals working out in the gymnasium that keeps on killing human lives with no apparent rationalizing explanation,” said the study.

While an MIT study last year found the recent outbreak to be correlated with the COVID-19 vaccines, media operatives have been suggesting a host of other causes for these “mysterious” cardiac arrests and strokes, including too much and too little exercise.

In January, 44-year-old MSNBC anchor Yasmin Vossoughian, who is fully vaccinated, blamed her sudden bout of myopericarditis on the common cold. Both the FDA and the CDC admit that myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle, and pericarditis, inflammation of the heart’s outer lining, are adverse effects of the COVID-19 vaccines.

Other causes of the cardiac arrest outbreak and strokes in young people, according to news media, are not vaccinating or masking enough. Other culprits include the sound of an airplane overhead, shoveling snow, skipping breakfast, postal codes, paychecks, parents, “climate change,” loneliness, sleeping positions, soil, and others.