1820...are you really THIS dense? Regarding your point/question about the percentage of "football" players that have tested positive for Covid and developed myocarditis; first, there is nothing in any of the articles that specifically states they were testing any other athletes besides those at THE Ohio State. In the NYT article from August, they use the word "athletes" to describe who was tested. But, Dr Daniels has never specified whether it was all/any Ohio St athletes or, just football players. Now, unlike you or Chuck, I will acknowledge that my initial response is now being countered by the Ohio St. doctor. He is now saying that his initial remarks to the New York Times reporter were taken out of context. And, that the findings aren't a reason to prevent athletics from paying. Although, it was fairly obvious he was couching his response as he also framed it as we now know what to look for and how to diagnose it. Meaning, probably every single athlete from every single sport that tests positive will have to have a cardiac MRI before being cleared to return to play. That's a heck of a lot of money...
Next, in regards to your statement that there are only three athletes who have either died from or, are still in treatment for myocarditis and THAT'S how you chose to develop your percentage of risk/safety regarding myocarditis; this goes back to the previous paragraph. If Dr. Daniels only tested OHIO St. athletes, then your percentages are garbage. They actually tested a total of 22 athletes who had tested positive for Covid, and four had mycarditis. That's 18% of them. However, since we don't know the exact prevalence of infection, it's difficult to know what the degree of potential myocarditis is. Still, according to the John's Hopkins site, we 6,751,119 infected. We also know that the number of likely infected is closer to 10-15% of the population. Let's go with just 10%...
So, using your number of just football players -- 3,315 players -- times 10%, gives us a total of 331 players. Now, multiply that by 15% and we have 50 football player -- JUST football players -- that will likely have developed myocarditis. The NCAA says they had a total of over 460,000 total athletes at all levels of competition last year At 10% that's 46,000 athletes that have already contracted Covid. Times that by 18% and we now have the possibility of
8,280 athletes with myocarditis.... and that's acceptable to you and Chuck?!?! I actually would like you to answer that...
Finally, in regards to your rant on testing; yes, we are testing more than any other country. Do you you know what the real experts -- not experts like you and Chuck -- but, real infectious disease specialists like Fauci and Olsterholm say we should be doing on a daily basis? From a New York Times article on Aug. 18...
"The Harvard Global Health Institute has suggested the country needs
at least 1 million tests per day to slow the spread of the virus, and as many as
4 million per day to get ahead of the virus and stop new cases."
Four million tests a day to get ahead of the virus...Meaning, even 900,000 tests aren't nearly enough. Here's the link to the article, although I'm sure neither you or Chuck will read it...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/u...-decrease.html
The CDC says during the week of Sept. 6-12, there was a total of
1,831,880 labratory tests. Not sure why the "our world in data" site is so different. Unless there are 650,000 non-laboratory tests each week. Divide 1,831,880 by 7 days and my calculator says that's an average of only
261,697 PER DAY... Either way, I don't know about you and Chuck but, that's nowhere near 4 million tests per day. Hell, if the CDC site is accurate, that's nowhere near 1 million tests per day. Again, this is what actual experts are saying we should do per day. Meaning, your
uneducated opinion means diddly squat...
