[LOCKED] Update on the Covid athlete heart syndrome that wasn’t

They criticize news outlets for running with the story, yet Stat news did the same.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/27/covid19-concerns-about-lasting-heart-damage/

Actual "Science" is the process of methodically testing and confirming observations not jumping to conclusions immediately. It's not clear to me that the "trust the science" crowd has the same definition. Erring on the side of caution is probably not a bad idea though when it comes to playing sports games.

These findings are very good news for everybody, not just athletes.

The weird thing about this article is that the headline is that "there is no 'Covid heart'" yet through out the article they mention how Covid does affect the heart, just not to the magnitude that was previously thought.

Also it's important to remember that science changes and that is the whole point of the scientific process. More research and more testing leading to changing health policy is a good thing for society

Well, whatever the case ....... let's not forget what August-September 2020 was really about.

1.  The B1G cancelling their season before all the other Power 5 conferences, in their attempt to be a leader in the space, and using this study as a primary reason for their decision.

2.  The ACC, Big XII and SEC deciding to plow ahead anyway.

3.  The B1G needing to do an about-face because they quickly realized "oh crap!!!  Those schools are all going to make a whole bunch more $$$ than us!!!  Shoot, we can't let that happen."

If $$$ is involved, $$$ trumps science a good deal of the time.

The social scientists a generation or two from now are going to have a field day judging the 2020-2021 version of the world.

Bewbs

My takeaway from the article is that osu bad, UM good. 

In other news, Republicans are dumb.

Assuming the worst case scenario in every situation based on no or incomplete data is not science, even if it's technically scientists doing it. Anything negative is accepted without any real scientific basis and anything positive must be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt and be notarized by three Harvard trained epidemiologists. This has led to a huge lag in acceptance of actual scientific information, which seems to me to be a problem. For examples see surface contact and outdoor transmission.

First, thanks for the article BananaRepublic. I'm always up for updating my priors when better information comes in. But dude, your posting history is pathetic. I think your last like 50 posts are complaining about masks, freedom, people are idiots. How did you even find some many Covid threads? You'd l think it was June 2020 around here. In summary, thanks for the article but please kindly get bent.

Great discussion, just like all of the Covid threads over the last year.  Lots of points for me to consider.  

It's weird knowing almost everyone in Texas and Florida has died, I was told that would happen.  I'll just toss a 4th mask on while I await word on which rights I'm allowed to have today.  Unless of course I have a drink in front of me, then I'm immune.

Tell that to my son.  Had myocarditis from Covid not once but 2x.  I love how people are trying explain away truth to justify their bias.  Don't tell me it isn't an issue.  I am living it.  Take your bias and lack of concern and f off.

BTW I was against closing things down so dont classify me as tinfoil hat uber liberal labeling shit.

So nice to see everyone getting along and having the same points of view. 

Thank God someone posted a COVID article to the board today.  

I was missing getting COVID news in the rest of the world.  Thank goodness MGoUsers are here to keep us up to date.

Sorry to threadjack (not really, though), but I have a non-Covid related question. Anyone have any good recommendations for dealing with sciatica? This shit sucks!

It's an interesting opinion article and does highlight that subsequent studies of athletes and similarly-aged individuals showed that COVID-19 didn't increase heart issues for athletes.   That's a good thing, and even with the atypical cases where they did occur this article notes you should monitor those individuals but not be excessively cautious.

But I'd add that some of this piece of reliant on hindsight.  Like, I noticed one of the authors has been a pretty active speaker about COVID-19 on twitter and certainly isn't shy about voicing his concerns about overreaction by people.  And yet when I looked up athletes, myocarditis, and similar terms in his timeline I didn't see him comment on these early reports until recently.  Again, it's not your job to always be on top of every issue, but considering he was speaking about the excessive use of masks, shutdowns, etc. for months beforehand this feels a bit like him taking an unearned victory lap.

In general I think people trying to keep score of who was right or wrong with the pandemic is engaged in a mugs game.  We're all somewhat right and somewhat wrong, and that's reasonable.  And it bugs me to see these attempts to re-earn credit because of selective timelines.

If only covidiots exerted as much energy listening to the science these past 15 months.......