Coronavirus

[sighyoung]

[Leroy]

I wonder how many tested positive.

[mikechamp]

I wonder how many tested positive.

I wondered to, so I consulted with (checks screen...) Goo-gle and found this article, which cites anywhere from "at least 5" to "at least 15":

EDIT: Scratch that - That was how many had myocarditis. Reverse mathing now...

EDIT 2: 17-50 would have tested positive to get that range.

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/coll ... 705525002/

[pioneer98]

The article was updated to say that only 15% of them had myocarditis, not 30% to 35%.

What are the long term health effects of getting myocarditis?

[sighyoung]

The article was updated to say that only 15% of them had myocarditis, not 30% to 35%.

Thanks. Here's an additional link.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

The article was updated to say that only 15% of them had myocarditis, not 30% to 35%.

What are the long term health effects of getting myocarditis?

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-con ... c-20352544

Overview

Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle (myocardium). Myocarditis can affect your heart muscle and your heart's electrical system, reducing your heart's ability to pump and causing rapid or abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias).

A viral infection usually causes myocarditis, but it can result from a reaction to a drug or be part of a more general inflammatory condition. Signs and symptoms include chest pain, fatigue, shortness of breath, and arrhythmias.

Severe myocarditis weakens your heart so that the rest of your body doesn't get enough blood. Clots can form in your heart, leading to a stroke or heart attack.

Treatment for myocarditis depends on the cause.

Diagnosis
Early diagnosis is key to preventing long-term heart damage. After a physical examination, your doctor might order one or more tests to confirm that you have myocarditis and determine its severity. Tests might include:

...

Treatment
In many cases, myocarditis improves on its own or with treatment, leading to a complete recovery. Myocarditis treatment focuses on the cause and the symptoms, such as heart failure.

In mild cases, persons should avoid competitive sports for at least three to six months. Rest and medication to help your body fight off the infection causing myocarditis might be all you need. Although antiviral medications are available, they haven't proved effective in the treatment of most cases of myocarditis.

Certain rare types of viral myocarditis, such as giant cell and eosinophilic myocarditis, respond to corticosteroids or other medications to suppress your immune system. In some cases caused by chronic illnesses, such as lupus, treatment is directed at the underlying disease.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Just a short recap, it looks like it was a tOSU Dr that released the study of mostly tOSU students that have myocarditis but for whatever reason tOSU won't share the data they published. So, while being peer reviewed it's kind of tough to review is my main understanding based on this NYT article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/spor ... virus.html

But as Daniels’s survey awaits the rigors of peer review, it has received scant attention, in part because Ohio State has refused to make public any testing data about its athletes — who make up the bulk of the study — other than to announce last month that it had shut down workouts because of positive virus tests. Thus, Daniels said he could not disclose any more information about the data, including the number of athletes tested and those found with myocarditis, until it is published. (The school has said it is following privacy laws, but those prohibit only the disclosure of personally identifiable information.)

ETA: Would be really pertinent to know the data.

Basically, did the myocarditis occur during the infection and go away? Did it linger after the infection for a week or two? Were they able to treat it (eg with an anti-inflammatory steroid injection)

[Jocephus]

i'm surprised, 15% doesn't seem like enough to let the bourgeoisie ruin getting their billions

[Leroy]

Probably fear of lawsuits and losing those billions.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Not that any of us are this dumb, but there is a group of people that think the CDC stating only 6% of death certificates listed only covid means only 6% of covid deaths were due to covid. Here's an explanation of how death certificates are filled out and why that notion is completely stupid along with some information about Bradykinin and Vitamin D at the end.

tl;dw: Covid causes an array of issues like pneumonia, blood clots (strokes/heart attacks) and those are also listed on the death certificates. Not much on BK, Vit D is good.