Dominican basketball player Oscar Cabrera Adames once claimed that the COVID-19 vaccine caused him to develop myocarditis which is a rare heart condition.
Unfortunately, Adames died this week of an apparent heart attack after an exercise test.
According to a social media post from Dominican sports commentator Héctor Gómez, the 28-year-old’s stress test was being performed at a health center in Santo Domingo. The disease he had can weaken the heart and its electrical system, which decreases the heart’s ability to pump blood.
Following his death, social media posts surfaced in which Cabrera Adames suggested he developed the rare heart disease after he received two doses of a COVID vaccine.
“I got a damn Myocarditis from taking a f—ing vaccine. (I got 2 doses of Pfizer) And I knew it! Many people warned me,” Cabrera Adames previously wrote on social media.
He made it clear that he only got the shot because it was a work requirement.
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The 28-year-old expressed frustration at the situation, stating that he had no pre-existing health problems but collapsed during a match and almost died. He further mentioned undergoing 11 cardiology tests that yielded no findings.
“But guess what? It was compulsory or I couldn’t work. I am an international professional athlete and I am playing in Spain. I have no health problem, nothing, not hereditary, no asthma, NOTHING! I suddenly collapsed to the ground in the middle of a match and almost died. I’m still recovering and I’ve had 11 different cardiology tests done and guess? They find nothing.”
Adames’s collapse happened during a 2021 Spanish Amateur Basketball League game. He fainted during the game and was later transported to a hospital on a stretcher.
It remains unclear if the stress test was the direct cause of Cabrera Adames’ heart attack.
Cabrera Adames was the nephew of Hugo Cabrera, a Dominican Sports Hall of Famer.
Cabrera Adames had a basketball career that included playing at Daytona State College in Florida. However, in 2016, he was one of 12 men arrested by St. Johns County Sheriff’s deputies for allegedly attempting to engage in sexual acts with a minor. The arrests were part of an undercover sting operation.
