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The Epidemic of #DiedSuddenly
Buffalo Bills medical staff attended to Damar Hamlin after he was injured at Paycor Stadium. (John Sommers via Alamy)
Why is the public turning to a single, ominous explanation for tragedies like Damar Hamlin’s collapse? Two doctors explain.
By Vinay Prasad and John Mandrola
01.25.23
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Why are so many people, many of them quite young and seemingly in the peak of health, dropping dead? Today, the news of such events is so inescapable that it feels like an epidemic.

Perhaps the most high profile of these was the near-death, on national television, of 24- year-old Buffalo Bills football player Damar Hamlin. Hamlin went into cardiac arrest…

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Vinay Prasad
Hematology Oncology Medicine Health Policy Epidemiology Professor
John Mandrola
Heart rhythm doc, writer/podcaster for @Medscape, learner, cyclist, married to an #HPM doctor. #MedicalConservative. The more you see, the harder medicine gets
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