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Were the deaths of baseball great Hank Aaron and famed boxer Marvelous Marvin Hagler caused by the COVID-19 vaccine?

By Dana Ford
NO

Contrary to social media posts linking the deaths to vaccines, there's no publicly available evidence that's true.

Hagler's wife wrote on Facebook: "I was the only person close to him until the last minute ... For sure wasn't the vaccine that caused his death. "

According to Aaron's former team, the Atlanta Braves, he died peacefully in his sleep.

Louis Sullivan, who was vaccinated with Aaron and who is the founding dean of the Morehouse School of Medicine, said, "People who are trying to say there was a relationship between Hank's death and the vaccine are absolutely wrong."

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