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> everyone seems to interpret it as saying a significant portion of children have a damaged heart after COVID, which just isn't true. We don't know what percen

> everyone seems to interpret it as saying a significant portion of children have a damaged heart after COVID, which just isn't true. We don't know what percentage of children without this inflammatory condition have heart damage. In fact it's probably true based on the monitoring of college football players, we just don't know for sure yet.

brightball 6y ago
Fwiw, there's a lot of conflicting information there. Even the doctor who was quoted with the 30-35% number based on Big 10 athletes said it was actually "closer to 10%" the next day once he was all over the news. Original correction: https://twitter.com/BonaguraESPN/status/1301644428025540608 https://twitter.com/BonaguraESPN/status/1301644428025540608 Mayo Clinic doctor's who's been advising may sports leagues came out contradicting it. https://twitter.com/MJAckermanMDPhD https://twitter.com/MJAckermanMDPhD (there's a lot here in recent posts) And here is a more complete interview with him as a followup to this a couple of days ago: http://dailyorange.com/2020/09/mayo-clinic-doctor-advises-myocarditis-risk/ http://dailyorange.com/2020/09/mayo-clinic-doctor-advises-my... Other team numbers that don't show any significance cases (in Clemson's case, 0 occurrences). https://twitter.com/ADavidHaleJoint/status/1301581365238956033 https://twitter.com/ADavidHaleJoint/status/13015813652389560... NFL has also had zero (trying to locate that source).