Dan Patrick: Big Ten Targeting October 10th Start Date
Per Dan Patrick, "If conference can pass updated safety measures and procedures, Big Ten targeting Oct. 10 to start football season."
Link to tweet: https://twitter.com/dpshow/status/1300875158018756611
HYPE
September 1st, 2020 at 11:28 PM ^
I am a fan of Dan Patrick but not sure why he is getting into breaking news all of the sudden. His show is the only sports show I listen to. Definitely don’t want to have to give it up.
September 2nd, 2020 at 10:18 AM ^
"We’ve also known for a while that some COVID-19 patients’ hearts are taking a beating, too—but over the past few weeks, the evidence has strengthened that cardiac damage can happen even among people who have never displayed symptoms of coronavirus infection. And these frightening findings help explain why college and professional sports leagues are proceeding with special caution as they make decisions about whether or not to play."
September 2nd, 2020 at 11:13 AM ^
Lots of anecdotal information in this article with very little information on the prevalence of this condition. It notes a case of MIS-C in a child who died of heart failure. Note the CDC has identified 694 MIS-C cases in the US with 11 deaths. Based on the number of detected cases in kids (which MIS-C predominantly effects) that would be an occurrence rate of 0.15% and a death rate of 0.0023% among detected cases. Note that the number of actual cases is well above the number of detected cases, probably more so in younger people who are less likely to show symptoms. If we use the low end of CDC estimates on undetected cases of 6 times those detected we get a MIS-C occurrence in 0.0243% of kids infected with Covid and a death rate of 0.00038%.
Relative to the occurrence of cardiac involvement they noted the German study that found 78% of recovered COVID-19 patients, the majority of whom had only mild to moderate symptoms, demonstrated cardiac involvement more than two months after their initial diagnoses. They did not note that the control group in that study of people who did not have Covid showed 62% with Cardiac involvement.
I am also trying to figure out this sentence, “And while the prevalence of this in virus patients is not known exactly, a study found that ventricular arrhythmias occurred in 78 percent of patients without COVID-19, with up to 30 percent of them experiencing serious arrhythmias 27 months later.”
There are clearly heart concerns related to Covid. How prevalent this condition is seems unknown at this point. More research is needed along with some balance in how the risk is reported.
September 2nd, 2020 at 12:37 PM ^
I see that you were downvoted for presenting data.
One thing I’ve learned from these past six months is that the people screaming the loudest about how they are “listening to science” usually haven’t read a single abstract on this topic.
September 2nd, 2020 at 12:30 PM ^
Absolutlely the right decision. Cancel if necessary but for now plan on getting the season going.