Right-Wingers Are Exploiting Damar Hamlin’s Medical Emergency to Push Anti-Vax Conspiracies

Monday Night Football stopped. Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals fans, no longer cheering for their respective teams to win, stood shoulder to shoulder outside the Ohio hospital where NFL player Damar Hamlin had been transported, after suffering a cardiac arrest on the field. Overnight, football supporters nationwide donated millions to Hamlin’s charity, as part of an outpouring of thoughts and prayers for the 24-year-old athlete to recover. But in ultraconservative corners of the country, a very different response to Hamlin’s medical emergency emerged Monday night; right-wing talking heads and anti-vaccine influencers began exploiting the life-threatening injury for conspiratorial fodder. “This… Read Full Article