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If this is true, it should have been in the news long before now. Why hasn’t it been? EDIT: I stand corrected. It did, just not the Big 10 specific numbers.

eloff 6y ago
If you're still relying on the news to inform you, you're in trouble. The media is both biased and incompetent. I'm so disillusioned with the media in general.
- ineedasername 6y ago
  This is a case where the media has very much covered this issue.
- manishsharan 6y ago
  Yes. Instead various accredited media publications and science journals from around the world, we should all be looking to random Youtubers and Facebook posters for the real truth about Covid . /S
  - eloff 6y ago
    That's a false dichotomy. I wouldn't recommend that either. But the media treatment of covid, specifically with regard to treatment with hydroxychloroquine is biased and completely out of touch with how medical experts consider it. If you've been getting for information from the media on that topic you almost certainly have the mistaken impression that it is not effective nor in wide use. The reality might surprise you. I think they just want Trump to be wrong so badly that they're blind to the alternative. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. The media in general is a shadow of what it once was. Good journalism is very nearly dead. That has serious repercussions for both society and democracy.
mackey 6y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/08/08/athletes-coronavirus-heart-complications/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/08/08/athletes-co... This article covered it a few weeks ago. Another before that https://www.boston.com/news/health/2020/07/27/coronavirus-heart/ https://www.boston.com/news/health/2020/07/27/coronavirus-he...
ineedasername 6y ago
Do you mean this particular NCAA issue? If so, it's because it just happened: NCAA allowed training camps to begin Aug 7th. That leaves about 3 weeks for a few mini outbreaks to occur, get detected, and then perform comprehensive medical exams and tell the world about the results. Otherwise, myocarditis has been on the CDC list of COVID risks for months, and there have been numerous reports of COVID causing lasting heart damage. Your question incorrectly assumes we didn't know about this until now. Your familiarity of COVID details simply isn't complete. Which is no big deal: We can't all know everything on the topic. However, before I make a comment like the one you made, I try to do a few quick google searches to check my assumptions.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y ago
  I'm sure no small number of these players are taking steroids or did it in high school. They're a self-selected population of cardiac patients.
  - ineedasername 6y ago
    While anabolic steroids can cause heart problems they do not cause this type of heart problem. Source: my cardiologist who treats me for one issue that puts me at risk for myocarditis. I take anti-inflammatory steroids from time to time, so I asked about them: they're fine for my issue, and are actually used to treat myocarditis. And because I'm a curious person, I said "what about anabolic steroids?" And the response was: "don't take them, even if prescribed for something like low testosterone, because they can cause additional heart problems, though not make yours (my) any worse"
x87678r 6y ago
"Covid-19 Is Creating a Wave of Heart Disease" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/opinion/covid-19-heart-disease.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/opinion/covid-19-heart-di...

eloff 6y ago

If you're still relying on the news to inform you, you're in trouble. The media is both biased and incompetent. I'm so disillusioned with the media in general.

ineedasername 6y ago
This is a case where the media has very much covered this issue.
manishsharan 6y ago
Yes. Instead various accredited media publications and science journals from around the world, we should all be looking to random Youtubers and Facebook posters for the real truth about Covid . /S
- eloff 6y ago
  That's a false dichotomy. I wouldn't recommend that either. But the media treatment of covid, specifically with regard to treatment with hydroxychloroquine is biased and completely out of touch with how medical experts consider it. If you've been getting for information from the media on that topic you almost certainly have the mistaken impression that it is not effective nor in wide use. The reality might surprise you. I think they just want Trump to be wrong so badly that they're blind to the alternative. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. The media in general is a shadow of what it once was. Good journalism is very nearly dead. That has serious repercussions for both society and democracy.

mackey 6y ago

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/08/08/athletes-coronavirus-heart-complications/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/08/08/athletes-co... This article covered it a few weeks ago. Another before that https://www.boston.com/news/health/2020/07/27/coronavirus-heart/ https://www.boston.com/news/health/2020/07/27/coronavirus-he...

ineedasername 6y ago

Do you mean this particular NCAA issue? If so, it's because it just happened: NCAA allowed training camps to begin Aug 7th. That leaves about 3 weeks for a few mini outbreaks to occur, get detected, and then perform comprehensive medical exams and tell the world about the results. Otherwise, myocarditis has been on the CDC list of COVID risks for months, and there have been numerous reports of COVID causing lasting heart damage. Your question incorrectly assumes we didn't know about this until now. Your familiarity of COVID details simply isn't complete. Which is no big deal: We can't all know everything on the topic. However, before I make a comment like the one you made, I try to do a few quick google searches to check my assumptions.

kevin_thibedeau 6y ago
I'm sure no small number of these players are taking steroids or did it in high school. They're a self-selected population of cardiac patients.
- ineedasername 6y ago
  While anabolic steroids can cause heart problems they do not cause this type of heart problem. Source: my cardiologist who treats me for one issue that puts me at risk for myocarditis. I take anti-inflammatory steroids from time to time, so I asked about them: they're fine for my issue, and are actually used to treat myocarditis. And because I'm a curious person, I said "what about anabolic steroids?" And the response was: "don't take them, even if prescribed for something like low testosterone, because they can cause additional heart problems, though not make yours (my) any worse"

x87678r 6y ago

"Covid-19 Is Creating a Wave of Heart Disease" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/opinion/covid-19-heart-disease.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/opinion/covid-19-heart-di...