Current Events > PSU football doctor: 30-35 percent of COVID-19-positive Big 10 athletes...

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...had myocarditis

https://amp.centredaily.com/sports/college/penn-state-university/psu-football/article245448050.html

New data helps illustrate what Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren might have meant when he described too much medical uncertainty and too many unknown health risks as reasons for postponing the Big Tens 2020-21 fall sports season.
During a State College Area school board of directors meeting on Monday night, Wayne Sebastianelli Penn States director of athletic medicine made some alarming comments about the link between COVID-19 and myocarditis, particularly in Big Ten athletes. Sebastianelli said that cardiac MRI scans revealed that approximately a third of Big Ten athletes who tested positive for COVID-19 appeared to have myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle that can be fatal if left unchecked.
When we looked at our COVID-positive athletes, whether they were symptomatic or not, 30 to roughly 35 percent of their heart muscles (were) inflamed, Sebastianelli said. And we really just dont know what to do with it right now. Its still very early in the infection. Some of that has led to the Pac-12 and the Big Tens decision to sort of put a hiatus on whats happening.

A day before the Big Ten announced its decision to postpone its fall sports season on Aug. 11, ESPN reported that the long-term effects of myocarditis had been discussed in meetings of presidents and chancellors, commissioners and athletic directors, and health advisory board members from the Big Ten and other conferences around the country.
You could have a very high-level athlete whos got a very superior VO2 max and cardiac output who gets infected with COVID and can drop his or her VO2 max and cardiac output just by 10 percent, and that could make them go from elite status to average status, Sebastianelli said. We dont know that. We dont know how long thats going to last. What we have seen when people have been studied with cardiac MRI scans symptomatic and asymptomatic COVID infections is a level of inflammation in cardiac muscle that just is alarming.
Neither Penn State nor the Big Ten responded to the Centre Daily Times requests for comment.

I have had no direct conversation with (Penn State) President (Eric) Barron on this topic, Sebastianelli told the CDT in an email, but needless to say we all have concerns for the health and safety of every PSU student-athlete, as well as those at every level of competition; this is a public health issue.

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Had?

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had at the time of examination, I'm assuming

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Thats not worrying at all.

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https://twitter.com/BonaguraESPN/status/1301644428025540608

Oops!

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thanks for the clear up

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That's a decent bit of confusion

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and so many idiots are up in arms cuz some kids cant play for 1 fucking season.

nation of crybabies