https://www.foxnews.com/sports/damar-hamlin-makes-first-video-comments-cardiac-arrest
Direct link to video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cn-hfT0vhBH/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D
I'm not convinced. The video has a ton of edits in the middle of him speaking. The cuts are mid-word and mid sentence, not at the end of a sentence. There is no sign of him reading from a teleprompter either, which he undoubtedly would be. There are a lot of facial tics and strange movement of his face, but I don't have a video to compare it to. If anyone has a link to a Damar interview, that would be helpful. This looks like a very good deep fake, IMO.
Undoubtedly, this will be used as proof of life and the video will be used to quash the "Damar is dead" narrative.
This would all stop if he’d hold a normal player news conference where he’d sit at a table and have a Q&A with reporters—no editing. Because this isn’t happening, something is up.
100%. If he's well enough to attend a game, locker room and make a video, he's well enough to hold a press conference.
Interesting tidbit:
So, yes—it’s actually fairly common for ribs to break during CPR. The conventional wisdom is that about 30% of patients suffer fractures or breaks during CPR. However, a 2015 study published in Resuscitation suggested that this percentage is quite a bit higher. The study analyzed autopsy data from 2,148 patients who received CPR for non-trauma-related cardiac arrest, and the statistics were as follows:
Source: https://www.cprcertified.com/blog/what-happens-if-ribs-break-during-cpr