The actor Arnold Schwarzenegger underwent pacemaker surgery on March 18, 2024. Since then, social media posts shared more than 500 times suggest that his heart complications stem from having been vaccinated against Covid-19.
However, Arnold Schwarzenegger's condition was detected in 1997 and is related to a congenital defect. The former California governor has undergone several heart surgeries since then.
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“Arnold Schwarzenegger: One of the celebrities who carried out the massive campaign in favor of mandatory vaccination; she now she is living her own torment. After three open heart operations, he receives a pacemaker,” says a user on Facebook, which shares screenshots of newspaper headlines about the actor's recent operation, and his opinions in favor of vaccination during the covid-19 pandemic.
Similar entries are also spread on X, with a link to an article from the American publication The People's Voice, which assures that the actor is not the only “fully vaccinated star who has suffered heart problems in recent years.”
The version also circulates in English and Portuguese.
The actor and former governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger has been a promoter of vaccination against covid-19. A search on his social networks led to a publication from January 20, 2021 in which he appears getting vaccinated and inviting the population to get immunized.
In August 2021, during an interview with CNN journalist Bianna Golodryga, Arnold Schwarzenegger He said: “There is a virus. It kills people and the only way to prevent it is to get vaccinated, wear masks, social distance, wash our hands all the time and not just think, 'Well, my freedom is being disturbed a little bit.' No, to hell with your freedom.”
Heart problems before the pandemic
In his podcast “Arnold's Pump Club”, Schwarzenegger announced that on March 18, 2024, he had a pacemaker inserted, and that in the last 27 years he had three other surgeries, two open heart, due to a congenital problem
“Last Monday I had surgery to insert a pacemaker and I became a little more like a machine,” said the 76-year-old Austrian-American actor at the beginning of the broadcast.
He added that in Austria, his country of origin, no one talks about his medical problems.but that he considers it important to share that he was born with a bicuspid aortic valve.
“I'm doing great. I had surgery on Monday and on Friday I was already at a big environmental event with my friend, partner and fitness crusader Jane Fonda,” Schwarzenegger said.
A Google search for the terms “Arnold Schwarzenegger” and “heart surgery” Among the results was a news item from April 1997 detailing that the actor returned home after surgery to “replace an aortic valve with a congenital defect.” In the podcast, Schwarzenegger says that this was his first operation due to his condition.
The investigation also led to other press reports that have documented the former governor's surgeries in 2018 and 2020.
The users who spread the version that Arnold Schwarzenegger He was operated on “for getting vaccinated” they share images that the actor himself published on his social networks in October 2020, after his surgery at the Cleveland Clinic (1, 2).
On March 28, Schwarzenegger published a photograph in X showing his recent pacemaker.
Covid-19 and heart problems
Myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the pericardium, the membrane that covers the heart) have been associated with adverse reactions from messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines. However, they are classified as “very rare” in the product information documents of Pfizer and Moderna, and on the European Medicines Agency (EMA) website.
In a statement published on September 11, 2023, Pfizer announced the marketing of its latest vaccine against covid-19 in the US market, adapted to the XBB.1.5 variant.
At the end of the statement, in the “Important safety information” section, Pfizer lists allergic reactions and possible adverse effects after vaccination, in particular myocarditis and pericarditis.
Dr. José Carlos González Molinero, an internist at the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), told AFP on April 3, 2024 that SARS-CoV-2, The virus responsible for covid-19 can generate an inflammatory reaction throughout the body, which also counts for the heart and pericardium.
“There have been certain cases, very few really, in which it has been shown that these mRNA vaccines such as Pfizer or Moderna (can have) rare side effects and especially cardiovascular complications in young patients, in particular myocarditis. and pericarditis,” he said.
The expert added that most people who have suffered this type of condition have had mild events that recover quickly.
The portal of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also indicates that Cases of myocarditis and pericarditis after vaccination against covid-19 are rare.
The AFP has already verified misinformation about the coronavirus vaccine and its possible adverse effects (1, 2, 3).
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