Due to heart inflamation. If this is true it’s going to have a ripple effect on all sports very soon. Not good at all.
Keyontae Johnson collapse Covid related per doctors
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What effect? If true this is one case and the outcome positive. If anything it sounds like something got past the UF doctors.
Let’s not forget the literally thousands of athletes in the last 10 months diagnosed and returning to competition safely.
Regardless of diagnosis I’m glad the kid is home with family and recovering.
He's one person in athletics. He may be an outlier. Chill out.
This one could’ve very easily gone the way of “not a positive outcome”. Not saying we should cancel sports but this is serious. We need to figure out if what happened here can be identified/predicted before a player lifelessly faceplants on the court.
I don’t know if the previous poster who said all sports will be cancelled is being sarcastic or not. But other people who wring their hands about sports happening right now are idiots. KJ got COVID this summer along with most of his team, that’s what’s been reported anyway. Many many college kids have gotten it because how college kids live in general and treat this disease in particular. The mortality rate for a college student is probably 1 in 10,000 conservatively. The people who say playing sports right now is irresponsible have this delusional idea that if that happened a kid like KJ would be isolating this whole year, never seeing his friends, never seeing his teammates, etc. that’s just stupid. Beyond that, he’s actually very very lucky his collapse occurred in a place with emergency personnel standing by. If that had been in a pick up game at the rec center or out for a jog he’d be dead. It’s not difficult at all to make the case that if you’re a parent you’d rather know your son or daughter was playing sports right now than merely being a student on a college campus.
How about young athletes who seem to be healthy yet suddenly collapse - the autopsy reveals a previously unknown genetic heart defect? Those are so tragic too, yet sports goes on.
I'm just glad this young man is alive and home with his family.
If he had Covid in the summer, would he still have myocarditis? Isn’t the common flu a cause of myocarditis?
Myocarditis is simply inflammation of the heart. When the heart becomes inflamed, as it can from a number of causes, it doesn't always resolve quickly. Many viruses, staph and strep (bacteria present in every human body, but usually not enough to make you sick) STD's, alcohol, other drugs, etc, etc. Plus many people have general inflammation issues.
