Boy, 14, 'dies suddenly' while running
A 14-year-old Florida boy died Saturday after suffering a sudden cardiac arrest while running.
Knox MacEwen was a student at Western High School in Davie, Florida and a member of the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC). On Saturday morning he was running a 5K race at Everglades High School when his heart suddenly gave out. He was pronounced dead at the hospital shortly afterward.
"I am saddened to share tragic news impacting our Wildcat community,” announced Western High Principal Jimmy Arrojo. “One of our JROTC students passed away this morning after being transported to the hospital. I want to offer my deepest condolences to his family and loved ones, teachers, and classmates as they mourn this great loss."
"I ask our Wildcat community to rally around the family in prayer and support during this time of deep sorrow,” he continued. “Please know that grief counselors will be available on campus this week to meet with anyone needing assistance or support."
Nearly 2,000 athletes have suffered sudden cardiac arrests (SCDs) since the introduction of the COVID-19 vaccines, 70% of whom have died. Prior to that, it was considered a “well-known occurrence” for an average of 27 athletes per year to suffer SCDs. Other recent reports have shown a disturbing recent 5-fold increase in cardiac events among FIFA players.
But news media have been grasping for explanations other than the COVID injections. In July, for example, media operatives struggled to explain the sudden cardiac arrest suffered by NBA star Lebron James’ 18-year-old son Bronny, who was hospitalized after suddenly collapsing during basketball practice.
According to CNN’s “medical expert” Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the phenomenon is both rare and normal, though Gupta could only offer “abnormality” as a possible cause.
“The cardiac arrest, what triggered that, what caused that, that’s what doctors are going to be sort of investigating over the next several days,” said Gupta. “This is rare. We know that a few thousand people who are young athletes do suffer sudden cardiac arrests every year. There’s also all sorts of different reasons that can happen, [like] electrical abnormalities of the heart.”
“We don’t know what happened specifically with Bronny James,” Gupta continued. “But in any given year, this does happen thousands of times. Sometimes it can be a structural abnormality of the heart that was never really recognized until now. It wasn’t recognized until someone actually first has a problem with it. It could be an electrical problem with the heart and it wasn’t recognized until now.”
In June researchers thought they found a possible explanation for the recent “mystery” of cardiac arrests in young people, which they said has “no rationalizing explanation.” They suggested it may be due to exercising while having constricted carotid arteries.
“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 researchers.
