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.

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That’s actually much higher than I thought it would be and kinda scary. But does it define “heart issues” anywhere?

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One common "triad" protocol was to conduct an electrocardiogram, a blood test for troponin protein and an echocardiogram -- or ultrasound -- of the heart. In some cases, students also underwent cardiac MRIs.

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.

Researchers also determined that COVID-19 did not cause any athletes in the study to suffer a heart attack or related event.

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The article only states that the 21 issues noted were "cardiac concerns," and that only about half of those concerns (11) were "definite or probable" myocardial issues. The others were "abnormal findings."

Myocarditis itself is essentially inflammation of the heart muscle.

An important side note is that while a viral infection usually causes myocarditis, it does not mean it was due to COIVD. Viruses responsible can also be the common cold, gastrointestinal infections, hepatitis, herpes, mononucleosis, and HIV.

It can also result from bacterial and fungal infections, a reaction to a medication or cocaine use, and exposure to carbon monoxide.

One earlier small-scale study indicated a 15% incidence of myocarditis in about two dozen Ohio State athletes. This larger testing suggests that those isolated findings probably resulted from one of the above causes, and not COVID.

I would like to know the number of NCAA athletes with heart issues prior to COVID. Also I would like to know the exact type of MRI machine used in each test and how old it is. I would also like to know the qualifications of each person who is interpreting the results.

I don't trust any of this shite from these fricking eggheads. And I am talking about the people doing the studies and the people reporting on the studies. They are all biased as hell, and put out garbage information.

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If you’re going to talk capacity at least speak about it honestly. We never were close to running out of beds. Some hospitals were stretched dangerously thin with nurses though, and ironically other hospitals were so slow they had to cut some nurses due to budgets.

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A bed that cannot be staffed is as good a bed that doesn't exist. The problems were multivariate, no doubt about it.

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Yes and soon we will be saying the same about COVID. 99.x% recovery rate. Fake pandemic.

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Go choke on a bag of Cheetos, you dumb frick.