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From 30-35% in all big ten athletes with covid to... "At this time, there have been no cases of myocarditis in covid-19 positive student-athletes at Penn State

• jdminhbg 6y ago
  There’s an article here that walks through a little of what happened: https://sports.yahoo.com/nuance-lost-in-penn-state-doctors-report-on-covid-19-athletes-with-myocarditis-212430060.html https://sports.yahoo.com/nuance-lost-in-penn-state-doctors-r... A local paper wrote an article on a couple sentences from Sebastianelli’s hour-long talk to a local school board about whether sports were safe during covid. During that talk, he off-handedly mentioned this 30-35% number that he heard from some other doctor. He probably misheard or misinterpreted it. But once the number gets into a headline, it becomes a study showing a medical fact. Even after the retraction (not really a retraction in that it’s not something that was ever published in the first place), that number is still in a HN front page title.
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