by the conferences that have, thus far, cancelled it, and that's a bad idea, according to a cardiologist who has studied the matter.

Most importantly, though, he said they shouldn't use myocarditis as the reason to cancel college football now.

"There's just too many unknowns to say we have new damaging, alarming evidence that COVID-19 myocarditis is the big, bad spooky thing in town now, and we need to do something about it," Ackerman said. "Not new news at all; we've known that this virus can affect the heart muscle for five months now. It's not new, it just got put forward in a new way, and it's taken on a new life."

https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2020 ... eason.html

This has held up reasonably well.

The thing I keep going back to is the fact that this virus is undoubtedly the single most studied and scrutinized virus within the first year of its existence in the history of mankind. Of course we're finding things out about it.

Respiratory viruses causing rare heart problems is not unheard of. Influenza itself is known to cause myocarditis, for example. The fact that everything is all being learned about COVID in short order makes it seems scarier that it would if we had this virus for the last 100 years and slowly learned about it.

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September 24th, 2020, 1:28 pm

This has held up reasonably well.

Well said. Most research coming out of Mayo Clinic holds up well.