Joe Rogan on sudden death: what the evidence says · JRE #2335
SUBJECT: SUDDEN DEATH
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
And that's the athletes, sudden death in athletes. So it used to be 29 per year, now it's 290 per year, growth 10 times.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
The best available data point the opposite way. A peer-reviewed 20-year study (2002 to 2022) of more than 2 million NCAA athletes, published in Circulation, found that sudden cardiac death incidence decreased over the period, falling roughly 29 percent every 5 years (an overall decline of about 70 percent), while non-cardiovascular deaths stayed stable. The same study recorded no deaths attributed to COVID-19-related myocarditis, and the single post-2020 myocarditis death was giant cell myocarditis, a pattern not linked to COVID-19. The viral '29 to 290, tenfold' figure does not appear in this or other registry-based epidemiology and typically comes from comparing incompatible media-tracked tallies rather than measured incidence rates. Status: False.