Exactly. They all do it. Covid cut that ATM off with conference only play. Also playoff/bowl implications and rankings. That would be a mess!
Big 10 Votes To Cancel Fall Sports
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Unfortunately we won't know that for years from now from post illness data and it may be a risk of the vaccine as well given that similar vaccines have some risks of wild type side effects like guillean Barre syndrome from the flu shot. Much more common from real flu than vaccine but still a risk.
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The MAC should be ashamed of themselves for the mycarditis stuff. There's nothing new about it, it's treatable and occurs with a lot of viral infections, from the common cold to the flu. There are NO studies that show a link between COVID and it so far, and out of all of the Big 10 athletes tested, only five had even a slight case of this. It's easily treated and a common thing that's looked for after an athlete gets sick. Theses are academic institutions using anecdotal evidence to justify a decision, and in the process spreading even more misinformation and fear about a virus that has plenty of misinformation and fear on its own.
They needed a medical reason and they decided to use this paltry, nonsense one. Like i said before, they should be ashamed.
They needed a medical reason and they decided to use this paltry, nonsense one. Like i said before, they should be ashamed.
Have you actually looked for any research on this? In two seconds I found an article on the NIH website investigating the link between COVID and myocarditis. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199677/ Like most COVID related questions there are still a ton of unknowns, but there are some pretty clear links emerging. Here is a case study on one 20 year old https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7265842/
I love watching college football, but no conference, no school, and no player should be ashamed of saying the risks are too great to play at this time.
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I live in a college town. Classes haven't started. Kids moved in, packed together, standing in lines to get into bars. If decision makers are really concerned about the students, go completely virtual. They want the students back so they can get their money, yet act as though they are concerned about the kid's health by using the athletes. Decisions are being made to theoretically cover their @$$.
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Agreed especially since they aren't being adequately compensated. I do wonder how much the recent "organizing" by the players factors into this.
You mean the study that said this: The prevalence of myocarditis among COVID-19 patients is unclear, partly because the early reports often lacked the specific diagnostic modalities to assess myocarditis. Some argued that up to 7% of COVID-19–related deaths were attributable to myocarditis.26 However, this was assumed and not based on confirmatory diagnoses of myocarditis and thus may be an overestimate
This disease is probably more deeply and intensely investigated than any i modern history. It’s had a world-wide effort for months, and as a result we know lots about it -- the idea of the "unknown" is a crutch. We know how it spreads, how it cultivates, what it attacks, what its mortality rate is, who is most susceptible to its affects. We know quite a lot about this virus, and we're studying it more and more every day. We've had 20 million positive cases and 750,000 deaths -- we have LOT of evidence regarding the disease. If there was a connection where young, otherwise healthy people were getting myocarditis on any statistically significant basis, it would have displayed itself in actual data, not anecdotes.
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If they're motivated entirely by greed, why not play sports? Isn't there money at stake there?
