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re: If they go by stats then there will be college football......
Posted on 8/10/20 at 7:53 am to Enadious
Posted on 8/10/20 at 7:53 am to Enadious
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with potential heart damage
Convenient
Considering the overwhelming majority of hospitalized COVID patients they are seeing already have heart damage from diabetes, obesity, and hypertension
This post was edited on 8/10/20 at 7:54 am
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Posted on 8/10/20 at 7:59 am to theunknownknight
You are correct nearly 60 percent of deaths have hypertension as a comorbidity
Posted on 8/10/20 at 9:23 am to theunknownknight
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Considering the overwhelming majority of hospitalized COVID patients they are seeing already have heart damage from diabetes, obesity, and hypertension
This is a different form of heart damage. Diabetes and hypertension don't cause myocarditis.
However, the article acknowledges that the risk is unknown and likely small at this point:
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He acknowledges that the cases in athletes with COVID-related heart impacts are very small. Among professional, college and youth league athletes, he’s seen no more than a dozen in the US. However, there are likely many more. Some go undetected or have not been brought to his attention. Doctors aren’t exactly sure how common the condition is. Some have publicly stated that recovered COVID-19 patients have shown as much as a 50% impact on their heart, but with striking degrees in severity.
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