No, athletes are not dying from Covid-19 vaccines

The conspiracy theory that athletes are collapsing or dying after receiving a Covid-19 vaccine resurfaced this week after two prominent voices advanced the idea.

Sen Ron Johnson appeared on the conservative podcast “The Charlie Kirk Show” and falsely claimed that more than 22,000 deaths have been reported “in association with the vaccines,” with many athletes among them.

“We’ve heard story after story. I mean, all these athletes dropping dead on the field, but we’re supposed to ignore that,” Johnson said.

A similar claim was also made by John Stockton, the Hall of Fame basketball player, who said Sunday that “over 100 professional athletes” had dropped dead after receiving the vaccine. He provided no evidence for the…