Recent reports of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) are not indicative of an increase in cases or correlation with COVID-19 vaccination, experts have clarified. Sudden Adult Death Syndrome is a modified name for Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome, which is when an abnormal heart rhythm leads to cardiac arrest. After the person dies, there is no clear cause.
Without knowing the cause, there is no way to correlate that death with anything, according to cardiologist Dr. Payal Kohli.
“We’ve had the condition around for decades, and I think we’re probably just having more of what’s called an ascertainment bias–which is that we’re just getting more reports or more people actually telling us about it, picking up on it than we did before because it is a condition that’s been around for some time,” Kohli said.