World Cup reporter’s fatal heart condition unrelated to COVID vaccine
Associated PressCLAIM: Longtime sports journalist Grant Wahl, who died in Qatar last week, was killed by the COVID-19 vaccine. Wahl’s sudden decline caught the attention of vaccine skeptics on social media, who shared posts falsely tying his death to COVID-19 vaccination. But on Wednesday, Gounder, a physician and infectious disease expert, said an autopsy by the New York City medical examiner’s office found Wahl had died from a slow-growing aneurysm within his aorta, the body’s largest artery. “His death was unrelated to COVID,” Gounder wrote in a newsletter entry on her husband’s site. There was nothing nefarious about his death.” Reached Wednesday night, Gounder reiterated that “my husband’s death was unrelated to the COVID vaccine or any vaccine.” Julie Bolcer, a spokesperson for the New York City medical examiner’s office, redirected the AP to a representative for Wahl’s family when asked for comment.
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