“Athletes being incapacitated or dropping dead was not a 'thing' prior to 2020. We are now seeing this happen very frequently.”
What FactCheck.org found
Sports medicine experts say there’s been no increase in sudden death among U.S. athletes since the COVID-19 vaccines became available, but anti-vaccine campaigners are spreading the false narrative that there has been.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Dr. Simone Gold (Founder, America's Frontline Doctors) made this claim around 3 January 2023. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 January 2023, 10 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Dr. Simone Gold has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
This check was done by FactCheck.org, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.