Welcome back to Cincinnati where medical personnel have been working on Bill safety

DeMarre Hamlin for the last nine minutes Hamlin made a hit.

He got up, took a couple of steps and then just fell to the ground.

When DeMarre Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field during an NFL

game three weeks ago, epidemiologist Caitlin Jettelina quickly turned on her TV.

Partly because she's a football fan and she was worried, but partly because she knew

what was coming next.

A lot of Caitlin's work right now is focused on COVID misinformation and lately that's meant

fighting the idea that COVID vaccines are linked to sudden deaths among young people.

How quickly did you realize after that happened that things were going to start popping up on

social media about what had happened to him?

I knew right away.

This has been a constant theme throughout the pandemic, but so much more recently in the

past month or two, one of my colleagues' husbands died over at the World Cup about a

week before this incident.

And so it was on the top of my mind and obviously on the top of many disinformation campaigns

as well.

Socrates journalist Grant Wall, who Caitlin's referring to, died from a ruptured aortic

aneurysm.

Full disclosure, Grant was someone I considered a friend.

Grant's wife, Dr. Celine Gounder, has been resolute in making clear that his death had

nothing to do with COVID vaccination.

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