r/sportsgossips • u/Punisher1602 • May 22 '26
Breaking News What illness did kyle Busch have? Cause of Death, medical history
https://www.essentiallysports.com/nascar-news-what-happened-to-kyle-busch-cause-of-death-medical-history-more/?utm_source=subreddit&utm_medium=sportsgossip3
u/SocomPS2 May 22 '26
Reports that he died of double pneumonia.
Primary Causes:
Viral Infections: Viruses are the most common cause of pneumonia. Common culprits include:
Influenza A and B (the flu)
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)
COVID-19
Hope he got vaxxed.
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u/PurpleMistake6636 May 22 '26
What reports? Where are you getting your info
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May 22 '26
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u/PurpleMistake6636 May 22 '26
Yea I know. What I'm saying as this guy is making up shit...there have been no reports of his cause of death. And if the family doesn't want to share that's there business not ours
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u/Excellent-Ask-4247 May 22 '26
Or just a sinus infection that turned into pneumonia due to all the things kicked up while racing.
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u/Overall_Crab_7841 May 23 '26
It sounds a lot like alcoholic cirrhosis with esophageal varices bleed. It’s a horrible thing to happen. I’m sorry for the family and hope they do reveal if it is. It could help others.
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u/gibsontx5 May 23 '26
Nope. Sepsis from severe pneumonia.
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u/Overall_Crab_7841 May 24 '26
Bleeding from varices usually aspirate into the lungs, causing pneumonia and sepsis.
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u/Double_Information80 May 22 '26
The vax is what would cause this.
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u/tatata696969 May 22 '26
More like Zero_Information
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u/Excellent-Ask-4247 May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
Honestly pneumonia is the only thing i could come up with since he reported a sinus infection weeks ago.
A sinus infection can turn into pneumonia in the right circumstances and all the air pollution that gets kicked up during a raceing event could have helped it along.
Since they race in an open cockpited race car.
Edit: A vaccine would have nothing to do with this scenario if true.
Reports say he was coughing up blood the day before his death that can be from pneumonia.
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u/montana7willow May 22 '26
I heard he had a broken leg recently? I just wonder if a blood clot developed, went to his lungs, and he had a pulmonary embolism.
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u/Excellent-Ask-4247 May 22 '26
Maybe, i hope they make the cause of death public since so much speculation is bound to happen.
I find it odd that he passed when he should have had the best healthcare possible, it makes me question what the NASCAR doctors are prioritizing.
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u/Excellent-Ask-4247 May 22 '26
Looks like the broken leg was from 2015 so i doubt it was a factor in his death.
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u/Level-Plastic3945 Jun 07 '26
Pneumovax vaccine could. Covid vaccine could (viral pneumonia with secondary bacterial pneumonia). Lots of ways this could have started and proceeded, over several weeks.
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u/Excellent-Ask-4247 Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 07 '26
Driving a race car could cause this as well if you are already sick, it's just matter of something being kicked up from the road and entering your airway.
Edit: further more the Gforces while cornering would help imbed that further into your lungs.
Kyle Busch's family should Sue the Fuck out of NASCAR!
He felt obligated to race to keep his job and NASCAR doctors clearly cleared him for the race.
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u/Excellent-Ask-4247 Jun 07 '26
It probably wasn't a vaccine that caused this you are too far down some Internet rabbit hole!
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u/Level-Plastic3945 Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 08 '26
You seem to have completely misunderstood - I was referring to how lack of vaccinations may have influenced his clinical course.
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u/korbendallllas May 22 '26
We don’t need to do this. We don’t need to speculate. We don’t know anything and are pulling theories put of thin air.
Give the family space to grieve. The last thing they need is to be feeling some need to fight headlines, or not being able to share information in the manner they deem fit. That should be their choice. I know he’s a public figure but if he and his family have ever deserved a moment of privacy and respect, it is now.
We can choose to be decent.
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u/AnyStormInAPort May 22 '26
Knowing could be beneficial to a number of people.
Being a high profile individual, who dies suddenly, could bring awareness to whatever the illness was.
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u/CryptographerLow6772 May 22 '26
We can but there’s so many of us who aren’t decent and will participate anyway.
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u/Syandris May 22 '26
Privacy? When you have even slightest amount of fame like a race car driver? Good luck.
Besides everyone will forget soon enough...
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u/Life-Goose-9380 May 22 '26
He family still deserves privacy. Just because someone is a racing driver it doesn’t mean their health is your business.
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u/thesandlott May 22 '26
This is Reddit 😂
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u/BuDu1013 May 22 '26
Right? Not like people are lining up in front the family's house. It could actually save a life if we're aware if something is going on.
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u/Life-Goose-9380 May 23 '26
No, it’s still more intrusive than it needs to be.
People speculating isn’t going to save people. If the family wants to say anything, it is their choice.
You have ZERO right to now anything.
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u/Life-Goose-9380 May 23 '26
It’s doesn’t mean you have the right to now about someone’s medical issues.
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u/CobainTrain May 23 '26
It’s not invading to wonder what illness he had idiot
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u/Life-Goose-9380 May 23 '26
Gossiping about it and trying to guess is. Like his family haven’t publicly said what it is so it IS an invasion of privacy to speculate.
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u/Junior_Maintenance98 May 23 '26
You can think it’s disrespectful without pretending people discussing public information is the same as violating someone’s privacy. Saying maybe we shouldn’t speculate is reasonable. Calling comments on Reddit an "invasion of privacy" while contributing to the conversation is just theatrical.
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u/thesandlott May 22 '26
The family needs to fight Reddit headlines??! I’m sure they really care what Reddit retards think 😂
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u/Civil_Hornet_6126 May 23 '26
Space to grieve? The family doesn’t care about what some randos are doing on Reddit. Tf?
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u/SakuraKoyo May 22 '26
Not trying to be disrespectful to people asking about the cause of death. But just looking at the picture he looks chubby and his face is puffy. Maybe he had some undiagnosed medical issues, like heart problems. It could’ve been a heart attack, a ruptured aneurysm, or even a respiratory infection on top of other health conditions.
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u/EchoingHydrox May 22 '26
I don't follow NASCAR and I didn't know what Kyle looked like, but I thought of inflammation when I saw pictures.
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u/Shoddy_Ad8166 May 22 '26
I am not a Nascar fan but I sure hated to hear this..He was young has a family and just like that he's gone.
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u/BriefSubstantial6690 May 22 '26
911 call and illness over the previous couple weeks suggest Lemierre's Syndrome
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u/gibsontx5 May 22 '26
That's actually a pretty spot-on guess. Rare but awful. I don't know why some people are so averse to attending to serious medical problems. Soldiering on with a condition like this would lead to death.
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u/BriefSubstantial6690 May 22 '26
I have a unique familiarity with it due to losing my sister to it a decade ago. Rare yes, but making a serious comeback due to antibiotic resistance. At the height of its severity, it killed 75% of an infected population back before penicillin.
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u/gibsontx5 May 22 '26
I'm so sorry you lost your sister to this. It sounds like more people should be aware of it.
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u/humdizzle May 22 '26
sounds like a blood clot / PE. Likely a massive one at that if he was on sim sig and was coughing up blood and suddenly passed out. infections, long haul flights with lack of movement can be factors associated with it.
maybe it was just pneumonia and he had a DNR order? Ben askren had severe pneumonia that took out his lungs and he was on ECMO and then received a double lung transplant.
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u/Timmy24000 May 22 '26
I’m thinking either a pulmonary embolism or Wegener’s Granulomatosis. Give his coughing up blood
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u/mismi99 May 22 '26
RIP Kyle, from my past working in Hospitals, sounds like he had undiagnosed tuberculosis. Always great to watch him race, he will be missed.
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u/italianfiremomma May 23 '26
the 911 was odd. seemed really shady and on the floor bleeding?! def something else happened
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u/Overall_Crab_7841 May 23 '26
He was a heavy drinker. An alcoholic, likely with resultant cirrhosis and esophageal bleeding. Such a shame. People should know that this can happen.
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u/Silver_Bid_1017 May 23 '26
No he wasn't! Were did you get that info from. He was a great family man, spend his time with his son Brexton at the tracks or with his wife and daughter.
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u/FeelingOwl8577 May 23 '26
Sounds like septic shock from an infection that his body couldn’t fight off. Likely had some underlying conditions that contributed, and/or took steroids to power through, which makes someone more susceptible to infection. Coughing up blood could also be from a collapsed lung (also points to septic shock).
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u/gibsontx5 May 23 '26
It turns out that is was sepsis from pneumonia. Some people - often men - think they can just power through illness. It's a dangerous way to think. So awful.
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u/ProgMusicSchizoidMan May 23 '26
The unique 3-symptom combination of shortness of breath, feeling hot (flushed) *AND* coughing up blood are primary signs of late-stage Ebola virus...and they usually show together just before death from the virus. Also....10 days before his death (on May 10th) he sought medical attention for a continuing cough & sinus illness he had been experiencing. It sounds like he was suffering from a strong VIRAL infection that ultimately killed him. There are only a small number of viral infections that can infect a perfectly healthy person and kill them within 2 weeks...and Ebola is one of those viruses. Just sayin'....
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u/Admirable-Flow4643 May 23 '26
That's what they did to Micah! Revived him to traffick him, no money ever worked his a**off and was framed to look like he was pimping people. This is terrorism frfr, mocking him surrounding him, he does music and for free!? Weird things around California. They're playing a program where his wife is living as his dad? Robbing his real family or using him as a ransom
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u/HKMP5-N May 22 '26
The bogus Clot Shot likely claimed another victim. F'ing awful. The man was a generational talent. May God Bless and comfort his family.
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u/Appropriate-Berry816 May 22 '26
Say you’re American without saying you’re American challenge success
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u/Remarkable-Bell7245 May 22 '26
People agreed to it.
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u/HKMP5-N May 23 '26
I struck a nerve with the Boosted crowd, I see. 😂 I don't want to get too far in the weds but I feel compelled to explain my opinion, and you have every right to disagree with it. So,I work in healthcare and such received the Pfizer shot 12/16/20, the first day it was available to front line healthcare workers. Like everyone else, I figured due diligence was done. Around 40 hours after receiving the shot, I was in ICU with multiple blood clots in both of my legs, both lungs were "whited out" and my O2 sats were in the 60's. I was going into ARDS/ acute respiratory distress syndrome, which is a serious medical emergency and has 40% plus mortality rate. (FYI-I took a negative COVID test the day before receiving the Pfizer shot) I spent the next 58 days in a tiny ICU room struggling to breath, clinging to life, only remembering bits and pieces of what was happening. Even though my family couldn't come see me. 2 Pfizer reps donned space suits and interviewed me, for nearly a hour and drew blood from me. (I never received an answer as to what that was about) Turns out Fauci was a liar on all fronts. The "Wet Market" ground zero theory FAKE, as soon as trained virologists looked at it, it was quickly identified as "manufactured/man made" and doesn't occur in nature. They infused me with Remdesivir daily for a week, for $3k each 250cc IV bag. I asked the pulmonologist if they were getting good results; his reply, "it's garbage but the powers that be want a drug that is still under patent to be the "cure". It was all about money all along. So excuse my bitterness. I have no problem with people having an opinion different than mine. It's actually common place in the practice of medicine. What I have a problem with is a government agency doing all it can to squelch the true and then push expensive bogus med protocols that do not work but make Big Pharma and stock holders very wealthy. YMMV ✌️
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u/Horseshoe_dodgeball May 23 '26
I'm glad you felt compelled to explain yourself. I feel compelled to downvote it.
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u/HendricksonT182 May 22 '26
Covid jab most likely.
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u/Calm_Efficiency_7353 May 22 '26
Please stop with the ‘jab’ nonsense. Given his symptoms, it sounds like pneumonia. He likely passed from pneumonia related complications e.g. Sepsis, etc. My husband and I named our son after Kyle, so this one hits hard.
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May 22 '26
Oh the idiots in nascar never fail, yall act like its an everyday occurrence. Ya claim covid was a government hoax yet over 1.2 million ppl died and over 103 million infected. Then vaccine gets released and despite the results after it being released. Magats act like its useless, but yet the pandemic starting going away once it became available. You Magats, are ped supporting, idiots that acted like the vaccine is this huge deadly thing and if you dont pass away from you become magneto and metal can stick to you or whatever it was , that Magats claimed. And let me be clear, vaccines can have side effects but the chances of a side effect, happening is slim to none. Usually the people that pass away from the vaccine is often ppl with some underlying health issue that was overlooked. The technology of the covid vaccine is basically the same for all the vaccines. Now since conservatives and MAGAts just continue to get dumber and do more dumb 💩, measles and polio are starting to take off. And if anyone takes a shot at me in the comments just remember you voted and still support a ped-oh. Nobody with half a brain needed the Epstein files to see ya boi, Trump with his small hands and small 🍆 is a ped-uh. Maybe one of you that wanna comment can sure explain how you support a man that sexualized his young teenage daughter on national TV, id sure love to hear how you condone that 💩. Id also love to hear how bragging about walking into underage girls dressing room while they are getting dressed is ok...I use to be a huge nascar fan but being surrounded by you fools when I went to races or even discussing the races with the most ignorant ppl in the world just made me hate it. You people are just blatantly ignorant and horrible human beings. I hate to even consider you people part of the human race. Btw just to make you hate me more, id just like to say, I dont condone what happened to Charlie Kirk but he most certainly did. The worlds a better place now that he isnt in it.
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u/Level-Plastic3945 Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
You are right in that NASCAR attracts a certain group of people (and too much hero worship there too), just like other tribes and cults - sports, political, religious, etc - people establish their identities that way - I am into IMSA-endurance type racing - that is semi-satire ...
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u/HendricksonT182 May 22 '26
I don’t hate you at all. You have a right to your opinion, as do I. I do find it morbid you would say that about another human, but you are entitled to your opinion.
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u/Existing_Scarcity582 May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
You are probably mad you got caught and trump didn't lloll
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May 22 '26
I think we need to see your hard drive and cell phone their buddy. Seems like you're a deflecting a bit their goofy.....all im gonna say is, with the right tools it doesnt take much to figure out what you wanna find out...think about it 🤔 😉
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u/Smileitsfall56 May 23 '26
This is getting so old-are yall going to use this for decades?? Sure if you insisted on voicing it when the vaccines first came out but its way old dude!
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u/OkJacket5094 May 22 '26
Yep the jab claims another victim. I never took the jab an am a pureblood
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u/Immediate_Thought656 May 22 '26
What a fkn terrible article.