pjmedia.com by Megan Fox
A viral post on Facebook shows a sign purported to be posted in a Virginia pediatrician’s office that says the following:
Sports physicals are done primarily to make sure you are not at high risk for sudden cardiac death on the playing field. COVID vaccination affects your risk. In response to worldwide experience and vaccine adverse-event monitoring we are adopting a more precautionary sports physical sign-off policy: If you have received doses of any COVID shot, we will not be able to clear you to compete in sports without completing lab work and possibly an echocardiogram to rule out potential heart damage.
These precautions seem like a good idea, with all the reports of myocarditis in children that have popped up around COVID-19 and the vaccine. But the announcement caused a firestorm on social media. Confusion about whether it was real or not inspired me to investigate…
