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As a result of the speculation, Foxx has been called on to testify in front of Congress on the dangers of Covid-19, with the actor stating that “it’s a very important vaccine” and that “there’s no question about it–the vaccine is safe.”
After news of Jamie Foxx’s hospitalization broke, speculation swirled that he’d suffered a stroke. Per Sportskeedia, conjecture increased the longer that Foxx remained in the hospital. However, a family friend told Media Take Out that the actor had suffered a “brain bleed.” According to Aurora Health Care, symptoms of a brain bleed include “difficulty speaking or understanding speech,” “difficulty using fine motor skills,” and “sudden or severe headache.” The source said the bleed was minor, and doctors predicted that Foxx would recover fully.
Meanwhile, taking the speculation game to the next level, Foxx unwittingly became a political pawn after Reddit-certified medical conspiracists linked his unconfirmed alleged “stroke” to COVID-19 vaccines. “I told y’all that it would take a famous celeb like Jamie Foxx having a huge medical emergency & me merely mentioning that he was vaccinated to get the attention of the extreme woke left because they are getting fookin nervous about all those boosters they had,” Health Nut News opined (via TechArp).
A study of more than 8 million people by the British Medical Journal found no increased risk of rare neurological events after covid vaccination. However, they noted there was “an increased risk of Bell’s palsy (facial weakness), encephalomyelitis (inflammation of the brain and spinal cord) and Guillain-Barré syndrome (a nerve condition)” in those previously infected by COVID.
