A lot of these aren’t directly getting attributed to COVID, but it’s highly suspicious to have medically unexplained symptoms during a pandemic. Personally, I feel like this passes your sense check ;)
On Aguero (one of the greatest strikers of all time), he retired with cardiac arrhythmia.
This article quotes his doctor: “But Roberto Peidro, who has treated Aguero since 2004, says it has “nothing to do with Covid or the Covid vaccine”.
There are cases of footballers/athletes retiring/dying with heart problems or suffering from severe heart problems every few years. The examples of Cristian Erikson, Fabrice Muamba, and Marc Vivian Foe spring to mind from memory. There is also James Taylor, the cricketer.
That’s a useful article. Makes it much less likely to be COVID related, because there’s a plausible alternative explanation (but his doctor could be wrong. Doctors have been wrong about Long Covid a lot).
I found the Air table list surprisingly big, and would love to see a year by year comparison.
Okay so a person on the org’s team sent me the following:
Extensive Air table of ‘heart issues’ in athletes, 2021-2022: https://airtable.com/shrbaT4x8LG8EbvVG/tbl7xKsSUIOPAa7Mx
He also sent these news articles:
Sergio Agüero quit (striker Barca): https://www.sportingnews.com/us/amp/soccer/news/sergio-aguero-retired-heart-doesnt-work-man-city-barcelona/o6ikz9xb9h466zxdtzbdagg6
Scottish #1 female tennis player (supposedly recovered after 18 months): https://news.stv.tv/sport/scottish-number-one-tennis-player-maia-lumsden-feared-career-was-over-after-long-covid-diagnosis
2 British female tennis players (don’t know their rank) 1 supposedly recovered after 18 months, 1 bedbound: https://www.skysports.com/tennis/news/12110/12577541/british-tennis-duo-maia-lumsden-and-tanysha-dissanayake-fear-for-careers-due-to-long-covid
A lot of these aren’t directly getting attributed to COVID, but it’s highly suspicious to have medically unexplained symptoms during a pandemic. Personally, I feel like this passes your sense check ;)
On Aguero (one of the greatest strikers of all time), he retired with cardiac arrhythmia.
This article quotes his doctor: “But Roberto Peidro, who has treated Aguero since 2004, says it has “nothing to do with Covid or the Covid vaccine”.
There are cases of footballers/athletes retiring/dying with heart problems or suffering from severe heart problems every few years. The examples of Cristian Erikson, Fabrice Muamba, and Marc Vivian Foe spring to mind from memory. There is also James Taylor, the cricketer.
That’s a useful article. Makes it much less likely to be COVID related, because there’s a plausible alternative explanation (but his doctor could be wrong. Doctors have been wrong about Long Covid a lot).
I found the Air table list surprisingly big, and would love to see a year by year comparison.