Posted on 09/03/2020 11:44:53 AM PDT by Libloather
Penn State's director of athletic medicine, Wayne Sebastianelli, says 30-35 percent of Big Ten athletes who tested positive for COVID-19 also had myocarditis, a condition that inflames the heart muscle and can potentially be fatal.
Per Parth Upadhyaya of the Centre Daily Times, Sebastianelli said Monday during a State College Area board of directors meeting:
"When we looked at our COVID-positive athletes, whether they were symptomatic or not, 30 to roughly 35 percent of their heart muscles (are) inflamed. And we really just don't know what to do with it right now. It's still very early in the infection. Some of that has led to the Pac-12 and the Big Ten's decision to sort of put a hiatus on what's happening."
**SNIP**
Sebastianelli said the level of cardiac inflammation seen in the athletes tested was "alarming":
"You could have a very high-level athlete who's 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. We don't know that. We don't know how long that's going to last. What we have seen is when people have been studied with cardiac MRI scanssymptomatic and asymptomatic COVID infectionsis a level of inflammation in cardiac muscle that just is alarming."
Despite those findings and the conference's earlier decision to postpone the season, the Big Ten is reportedly considering an October start to the football season, per radio host Dan Patrick:
(Excerpt) Read more at bleacherreport.com ...
Thank you for the reply.
My oldest son has had COVID and some symptoms seem to be hanging around, mostly fatigue. But he is getting better.
Kind of like saying here in Texas, 'Says here this salsa comes from New York City!'
“So the NFL should cancel the kneeling and the entire season....right?”
Don’t think many would notice.
Im glad he is getting better. A good viral infection can take 6 weeks or so to recover your strength completely. I would have him get checked out if he doesnt go to ie to improve or if things worsen again
Think again. This is actually a known complication from longstanding or sliw-to-resolve flu/cold infections.
An ECG taken in the wake of this problem will alarm like crazy if spots of dead cardiac muscle tissue had been left behind. Scar tissue does not conduct electricity. So pacing pulses (from node to node to node) are at risk of scattering and sending an otherwise healthy young heart into fibrillation (massive heart attack, often fatal and with no advance warning unless a doctor thought to prescribe an ECG or echocardiogram to rule out just this problem). If found before such an attack, a heart transplant may be the only good option.
Complication? Yes.
A third of all Covid patients? NO!
OK that’s cool. I was just curious about where the “snake pit” vitriol came from.
PSU - Ped State
First, NBA, college basketball, college baseball, college lacrosse, and tons of high school athletes were playing their sports when China virus hit China virus hit in January but we did not realize it until March. Not one athlete died. High school kids in many parts of the country are playing football right now. Not a single death. I see cross country runners running up and down the street. Not a single death. I am calling official bullshit.
Spot on post.
I join you, in your call.
Additionally, wouldnt we see reports of random joggers or cyclists who die of this condition? As most people are asymptomatic, individuals who are currently engaged in athletic activities would be at risk? I personally know several athletes who are training for their sports. Im confident that millions of athletes are training at this time. Yet I havent heard of one death.
They need Jerry Sandusky back. He can turn those boys around.
One, Sabastianelli is a pro when it comes to sports medicine. The myocarditis brought on by Covid....the docs don’t know how quickly folks recover from it at all. If highly trained athletes can be made average, then the average person might be debilitated for the rest of their lives.
Mann is like Sandusky. Sabastianelli is like Cael Sanderson.
It’s just trash talk. You’re correct the Mississippi football fans don’t care about the Big Ten but when Ohio State starts chest thumping, watch out. There are 11 states with SEC teams but only 3 have two in each state. Mississippi is one of them.
My point is : Where are the dead athletes? There are millions of athletes in the US alone who have been training or playing during the last 8 months. Nobody has died. I see my local high school cross country team running 10 miles every day. Some states never shut down their sports.
Fortunately, that is not true with the SEC.
On the other hand, Alabama caved to the America haters - Roll Over Tide.
Yep, fake news. You wait a couple of days, and here it is:
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/reports-linking-30-35-big-ten-athletes-covid-myocarditis-were-inaccurate
Inaccurate? “At this time, there have been no cases of myocarditis in COVID-19 positive student-athletes at Penn State.” More like full-on psy-ops Bravo Sierra.
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