Superstar ‘overwhelmed’ after concert attendee suffers sudden cardiac arrest

Singer Taylor Swift said she was “overwhelmed by grief” over the death of a fan who suffered a sudden cardiac arrest during Swift’s concert in Brazil Friday night.

Twenty-three-year-old Ana Clara Benevides was one of sixty thousand people who attended Swift’s concert at the Nilton Santos stadium in Rio de Janeiro. During the show Benevides suddenly collapsed. She was revived for forty minutes but suffered a cardiac arrest on the way to Salgado Filho Municipal Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Brazilian media reports, which blame the heat for Benevides’ death, suggest that her initial collapse was also due to cardiac arrest. 

“I can’t believe I’m writing these words but it is with a shattered heart that I say we lost a fan earlier tonight before my show,” Swift wrote on Instagram. “I can’t even tell you how devastated I am by this. There’s very little information I have other than the fact that she was so incredibly beautiful and far too young.”

“I feel this loss deeply and my broken heart goes out to her family and friends,” the 12-time Grammy winner continued. “This is the last thing I ever thought would happen when we decided to bring this tour to Brazil.” The mega-star added that she would not speak about the tragedy when she took the stage Saturday night because she was “overwhelmed by grief when I even try to talk about it.”

Swift is not the only singer to recently observe sudden cardiac arrests during a performance.

In July, 19 people at an Ed Sheeran concert were hospitalized, including two people who suffered sudden cardiac arrests. 51,000 fans packed into a Pittsburgh stadium to see the “Shape of You” hitmaker, and emergency services were called 37 times. 

One of the stadium employees suffered a sudden cardiac arrest while taking down the set, and a paramedic suffered the same while leaving the venue. The 17 other hospitalizations, according to the Irish Times, were for “heat-related issues, some falls, and one seizure”.

Doctors have been struggling to discover the cause of an alarming increase in cardiac arrests over the last two years, particularly among healthy people.

In a recent study published in Physics in Fluids, Indian researchers suggested that strenuous exercise may be causing “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.”

But it has also been suggested that too little exercise is a possible cause for recent sudden cardiac arrests and strokes in young, healthy people. 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.

While an MIT study last year found the recent outbreak to be correlated to the COVID-19 vaccines, they have not been put forth by any media outlets as a possible cause.

Medical “experts” and media operatives have been using the term Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS), to explain a recent spate of sudden deaths which occur most commonly in people under 40 and usually are due to cardiac arrest. 

“Healthy young people are dying suddenly and unexpectedly from a mysterious syndrome - as doctors seek answers through a new national register,” wrote the Daily Mail.  

The British Heart Foundation defines SADS as “when someone dies suddenly and unexpectedly from a cardiac arrest, but the cause of the cardiac arrest can’t be found.”