Report: At Least 10 Big Ten Football Players Have Heart Condition Myocarditis

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Source: Bleacher Report

One major factor that led to the Big Ten announcing the postponement of the 2020 fall sports season, including college football, was the long-term effects of the coronavirus.

According to Nicole Auerbach of The Athletic, the conference is aware of at least 10 players who have the rare heart condition myocarditis, which reportedly has a high prevalence in people who have had COVID-19.

This is considered an "alarmingly high number" of the rare condition caused by viruses and it has caused decision-makers across college athletics to reconsider their views, per Auerbach.

Boston Red Sox pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez is out for the MLB season because of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart, which occurred after he contracted the coronavirus.



Read more: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2904115-report-at-least-10-big-ten-football-players-have-heart-condition-myocarditis

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Welp... this isn't the flu. If 10 out of 1000 football player sin the big 10 have heart inflammation as an after effect, 18-25 year olds need to avoid this big time.

[SheltieLover]

1. So sad!

Hopefully, they will truly recover!

Oh, yea, get those schools open!

[Grokenstein]

2. Everybody needs to avoid it. But as long as trashbags

keep spreading lies ( "Children are largely immune" ), make light of it ( "It's God's cleansing plan! HAW HAW HAW!" ) or otherwise propagate disinformation with impunity, there will be buffoons who will fight us to the death over wearing a bit of cloth.

Once enough celebrities and sports figures suffer, they might quiet down a little. Maybe.

[Leghorn21]

3. Bad, BAD news. And this is just one of the effects this virus can manifest - lungs can take a

terrible beating, we know ---- yeah, hearts and lungs are PRETTY CRUCIAL to maintaining a long, healthy life



so sorry for these young people and their poor families

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Yes that from what I understand is a life altering illness

myocarditis, the illness and the treatment, might mean less exercise your entire life.

[Initech]

5. As Deadpool would say, "Holy shitballs."

[3Hotdogs]

11. My neighbor in the 60's used to refer to corrogated shitballs.

His Great Dane was a shit factory.

[alittlelark]

6. Guarantee A Lot of younger ppl that had CV will have it as well.

The football players get A++++ Medical care. Others in their age group do not. They got sick, and got better like it was a cold or a bad flu. Many did not even go to the hospital or get tested.

They have no idea they have a heart injury.

[Sgent]

7. Agree

this is why I think this should be bigger news than it is. Every Big 10 athlete is given the medical care and physical annually that most people 18-25 never have (EKG, etc).

There is nothing published about it, so even a lot of doctors don't realize how often this is effecting the young -- 1% of a population (presumably most of which have not had COVID) is a lot.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

13. Yep, and yet Republicans are trying to push kids back to school!

Perhaps not too surprising from the evangelical, anti-science party.

A poll from a few years ago showed that only 6% of scientists are Republicans. It wasn't that way decades ago, but Republicans embraced the religious nuts who tried to pull science out of classrooms and all kinds of crazy shenanigans.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. I'm sure the sports forums are full of fans...

... trying to get creative with their selfish rationalizations to continue watching freakin' games -- e.g., "[Such-and-such] can cause heart inflammation too! Should we ban [whatever] now?! This is all political!"

And they're likely to be terrible comparisons, as usual, with just the consistency that they're mostly concerned with what THEY want.

[oasis]

9. Myocarditis. Trump could have avoided much of this from spreading.

Criminal negligence.

[DeminPennswoods]

10. Do we know if all 10 had covid19

or are the ADs making an assumption that if they have heart inflammation, they must have had it?
The story isn't clear about that.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

12. Doctors in Germany reported the connection...

... between Covid-19 infections and heart problems (that didn't exist previously) among many patients. They were relatively young and most of them had just isolated themselves at home because of the mild symptoms before they had "recovered".

Conferences and schools that ignore it seem criminal to me, or at least very unethical.

Several people on DU, including me, were already aware of the studies because of our near-OCD following of it. Lol.

I doubt that most Americans were aware of it, though. And young athletes? They probably didn't know either. And many still aren't aware!

Link:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/german-studies-indicate-long-term-covid-19-health-issues-1.4318036?mode=amp

[Buckeye_Democrat]

14. Another aspect that surprises me...

... is that these sports organizations, with so much money, don't seem to be seeking out some kind of technological solution.

It may be impossible anyway, but I'd think there would be reports of them working on mouthpieces with N100 filtration or something. It wouldn't even matter if they all had exhalation valves for easier breathing if they all wore them.

I went to a university which had a professor who invented an occipital lobe guard many decades ago. It wasn't even a major change to the helmets, but it lowered the frequency of broken necks dramatically.

Instead, the money-bags today seem more focused on bullying their selfish desires through politically.

[PSPS]

15. That's the thing. Even if you "recover" from Covid, its effects will last a lifetime

You can't downplay the importance of avoiding getting it, even if you're "young and healthy," "virtually immune," or whatever relatively-benign term the MAGA's and even many others spout, especially during trump's push to reopen the schools/infection centers. This virus has been found to affect every organ in the body permanently. I foresee a future with an explosion of people, many unusually young, needing convalescent and nursing care. It has also been shown to affect motor and cognitive skills.

[oasis]

17. These health issues are alarming. The MSM should have more coverage. nt

[Buckeye_Democrat]

19. I know many people aren't aware of it.

Maybe younger people would take the virus more seriously if this aspect of it received more coverage?

[Karma13612]

20. Can you spell

“Pre-existing condition”?

The Republicans and the Health Insurance Death Panels are just licking their chops. If we ever go back to the days when Insurance Co’s can deny Coverage or charge more for them, then we are in a world of hurt.

[pstokely]

16. what about the other confences?

how many will it take for the SEC to cancel?

[oasis]

18. Dr. Sanjay Gupta just covered it on CNN using physio charts. Scary.

[Hortensis]

21. It was probably caught early in all. Thank goodness for that.

The same won't be the case for many who aren't extremely valuable professional athletes, of course.