USA Boxing Shamefully Pushes COVID-19 Vax

Webinar willfully conceals myocarditis risk for young athletes.

On Monday, December 11, 2023, I attended a webinar hosted by USA Boxing—the national governing body for Olympic style boxing — titled Our Best Shot for a Happy AND Healthy Holiday Season.

USA Boxing provides guidance for approximately 2,400 clubs in the United States. According to its Mission Statement, its purpose is:

To promote and grow Olympic-style amateur boxing in the United States and to inspire the tireless pursuit of Olympic gold and enable athletes and coaches to achieve sustained competitive excellence. Additionally, USA Boxing endeavors to teach all participants the character, confidence and focus they need to become resilient and diverse champions, both in and out of the ring. 

The purpose of USA Boxing’s holiday season webinar was to push COVID-19 vaccine boosters onto young athletes who are NOT at risk of severe illness from COVID-19, but ARE at risk of suffering myocarditis from the SHOT.

As presented on the e-mail invitation, the speakers were:

The webinar was a shameful species of propaganda that featured multiple lies, starting with the lie that getting a COVID-19 vaccination “is not just a personal choice, but a collective responsibility.” This lie ignores that fact—expressly stated 2.5 years ago by CDC director Rochelle Walensky—that the vaccines do not prevent transmission of the virus. This being the case, there is no grounds whatsoever for claiming that getting a shot “is a collective responsibility.”

After a brief introduction by Mike McAtee, Lindsay Clarke took the floor to speak about the COVID-19 Vaccine Education and Equity Project, which is led by her organization, the Alliance for Aging Research. The PROJECT, whose membership includes dozens of large institutions and associations, resembles the COVID-19 Community Corps. As such, it is yet another large scale propaganda network, financed by the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex, to advocate COVID-19 vaccine uptake in associations through their officers and managers.

Avra Thomas took the floor “to share facts about COVID vaccines and how they work in the body.” She gave a jumbled and incoherent presentation on “the messenger RNA vaccine” and stressed the importance of getting boosters going into the holiday season to stay up to date.

She made a series of unsubstantiated assertions, including the following:

• 3.2 million deaths and 18.5 million hospitalizations have been prevented due to the vaccination, and this is over the last two years in the U.S.”

• Among the unvaccinated, the death rates are higher. … And also we know that the vaccine could have prevented additional deaths.

• 67% of unvaccinated people have heard a myth that has causes them to be vaccine hesitant.

• You DO need a vaccine even if you’ve had COVID-19. The infection gives you some protection, but we don’t know how long. We think it’s 90 days, so when you start to feel better, you should get a vaccine.

• Serious vaccine side effects such as heart attacks and strokes are very rare. The common types that are known are injection site pain, redness, swelling, fever and chills. These are temporary and for the greater good.

• The risk of developing a blood clot is far higher from COVID-19 than from the vaccine. This risk is much greater of a cardiovascular complication from the infection than from the vaccine.

Following this mendacious and misleading presentation by Avra Thomas, Mike McAtee talked about USA Boxing events with mobile vaccine facilities (including pharmacists) present for providing free shots and boosters to all attendees, including all insured and uninsured adult spectators. Information about vaccines is provided in both English and Spanish.

During the Q&A, a question was posed about “the recommendation for the time between boosters?” Avra Thomas gave another incoherent response:

“So it’s still as it was before. I believe it’s at least two months, um, from, um, from when the last dose. Well, I’m sorry, that was with the initial dose, and then the booster. So—”

“I think it’s still two, right? Per season,” interjected Lindsay Clarke. “But then at least two months in between. Right?”

“Is it still two months?” asked Avra Thomas.

“Right, but then, um, at least two months in between, right?”

“Right, at least two months in between, but, immunity is longer than that, but it’s fine to get a booster. I just got mine in October, um, so…”

“Yeah, and just to put a plug-in,” interjected Ms. Clarke again. “You need boosters, just because you had an infection, right, doesn’t mean you are protected against an another infection. And just because the first or the second or the third time you had it wasn’t big deal doesn’t mean the next time won’t be. So we can’t, we can’t, we shouldn’t gamble on just because we had a mild case one time means we’ll have a mild case again, right?”

“That’s exactly right. And I want to encourage it as we’re going into the holiday season and we’ll congregate and be around the more vulnerable population, whether they be younger or older. We want to be sure we’re protecting ourselves as well as those around us. So get those vaccinations.”

Towards the end of the webinar, a participant posed a question about “myocarditis risk, especially in younger populations.”

Yeah, so, those [side effects] are very rare and uncommon, as far as those extreme side effects. Um, so the ones that are more common are the injection site pain, the redness, the swelling. Some of the ones that are severe, if you don’t have an allergy to any components of the vaccine, those are unlikely to be an issue. So, um, the focus on the myocarditis and that sort, if you have a preexisting condition or a heart condition or something that you have concern or are talking to your physician about—the vaccines will offer more protection for a severe reaction should you get COVID, so it’s really encouraged. So if you have an underlying condition of great concern that you want to get more information about, but it really helps you to get vaccinated.

“Yeah, I think that’s so important,” interjected Ms. Clarke.

Because we do know the side effects are rare, but we also know that the complications from COVID are NOT rare, so even beyond causing you to stay home and miss work and feel lousy, it [COVID infection] could send you to the hospital and even cause death. So, I think that’s the part that we need to be looking at. The incredible reduction of risk of complications from these vaccines is so important.

While the entire webinar was full of lies, unsubstantiated assertions, distortions, and disinformation, this deliberate concealment of myocarditis risk from COVID-19 vaccines—especially in young male athletes—was the most egregious. There are now 800 papers in the peer-reviewed literature on vaccine-induced myocarditis, including a recent, large Korean study that confirms this disastrous outcome. As Dr. Peter McCullough characterized the results of this study (in his recent Substack post Symptomatic COVID-19 Vaccine Induced Myocarditis):

Severe COVID-19 vaccine induced myocarditis was identified in 95 cases (19.8%), 85 ICU admissions (17.7%), 36 fulminant myocarditis (7.5%), 21 ECMO therapies (4.4%), 21 deaths, (4.4%), and 1 heart transplantation (0.2%). For young healthy people, these results are horrifying! The survival curves demonstrated higher risks for Moderna compared to the other vaccines.

In summary, the COVID-19 vaccines should have never been administered to young persons without risks of serious respiratory illness. These outcomes confirm COVID-19 vaccine induced myocarditis is leading to death among young persons who unfortunately took one or more injection. Research on myocarditis risk stratification and mitigation is urgently needed.

USA Boxing’s decision to hold this shabby propaganda webinar in which the vaccine-induced myocarditis risk was characterized “as very rare and uncommon” should be regarded as recklessly endangering the health of young athletes, especially of the male sex.

USA Boxing’s willful denial of the vast literature on myocarditis risk should be viewed a grounds for possible civil and even criminal liability. If a young athlete who receives a shot administered at a USA Boxing event develops myocarditis, he and his family should strongly consider taking legal action against the association.