re: Remember myocarditis? Study finds only 0.7% of college athletes w/ COVID had heart issues.

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That’s actually much higher than I thought it would be and kinda scary.

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It shouldn't be. OP's headline is consistent with the story, but when you actually read the details it says:

possible, probable or definite myocarditis, or heart inflammation

and reasonably flagged those for further review, which found:

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Of the 21 cases of possible to confirmed cardiac concerns, cardiac MRIs found 11 cases of definite or probable myocardial or myopericardial issues; nine of those were cases in which the athlete showed moderate or cardiopulmonary symptoms or had abnormal findings on one of the triad tests.

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So, you already are down to 11 (0.36%) and the real number could even be lower because some of the probable group could later end up being negative.

Further, what they apparently didn't do but would be interesting to see, is conduct a similar test on random samples of COVID-negative athletes to see what their positive rate turns out to be. Myocarditis can be caused by many viruses including some very common ones like strep and staph.