These studies are very tricky to interpret because there's no context for how bad these results are. How many healthy people have (presumably benign) cardiac a

These studies are very tricky to interpret because there's no context for how bad these results are. How many healthy people have (presumably benign) cardiac abnormalities when you do a cardiac MRI? How many people who got a cold or flu have cardiac abnormalities when you do a cardiac MRI? Covid is undoubtedly more fatal than the flu, but in some demographics, like the young, it is less fatal. The first cited study of athletes does not provide any context. The other cited study (Puntmann et al) did attempt to have a control group of people who did not contract Covid but had similar risk factors as the people who did contract Covid. If you look at this control group, a ton of people have cardiac abnormalities (in Table 1, as many as 26% of the non-Covid group could have the criteria for myocarditis that the study states).