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<blockquote data-quote="YJMD" data-source="post: 734083" data-attributes="member: 1929"><p>Lots of people are having lingering symptoms. Was talking on another board about a study that looked at recovered symptomatic patients and showed that over half of them had persistent myocardial inflammation. While COVID-19 is lower risk in people of this age group, I would not be surprised that quite a large percentage of athletes have a significant durable, perhaps permanent, impact on their athletic careers. Obviously for Thomas he gets deconditioned, gains weight, and gets strep throat, so you really can't clearly say whether some subclinical inflammatory process or vascular or lung injury as a direct result of COVID-19 infection is at play here. If I were an athlete, I would absolutely be concerned that if I got COVID-19 it could end my career even if the illness itself was relatively mild. Of course, athletes always face things like that. Lots of people get injuries that cost careers. COVID-19 is scarier because the risk is more uncertain. The thing that will drive outcomes as far as people opting out, etc., will be how much people believe they can control their risk.</p><p></p><p>Obviously there are still going to be people who are reckless and feel they are invincible. But people who act that way shouldn't be taken as the norm, and anyone who has actual concern isn't going to be reassured by the dudes who blow off their expectations and expose everyone else to risk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="YJMD, post: 734083, member: 1929"] Lots of people are having lingering symptoms. Was talking on another board about a study that looked at recovered symptomatic patients and showed that over half of them had persistent myocardial inflammation. While COVID-19 is lower risk in people of this age group, I would not be surprised that quite a large percentage of athletes have a significant durable, perhaps permanent, impact on their athletic careers. Obviously for Thomas he gets deconditioned, gains weight, and gets strep throat, so you really can't clearly say whether some subclinical inflammatory process or vascular or lung injury as a direct result of COVID-19 infection is at play here. If I were an athlete, I would absolutely be concerned that if I got COVID-19 it could end my career even if the illness itself was relatively mild. Of course, athletes always face things like that. Lots of people get injuries that cost careers. COVID-19 is scarier because the risk is more uncertain. The thing that will drive outcomes as far as people opting out, etc., will be how much people believe they can control their risk. Obviously there are still going to be people who are reckless and feel they are invincible. But people who act that way shouldn't be taken as the norm, and anyone who has actual concern isn't going to be reassured by the dudes who blow off their expectations and expose everyone else to risk. [/QUOTE]
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