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Have you gotten tested for any possible heart damage? There are some reports of athletes being benched because of a heart condition caused by COVID that can cause sudden death during exercise.

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That's a pretty big claim, do you have anything to back it up?

How many athletes have caught Covid19 and then dropped dead afterwards when exercising?

Most likely referring to this: https://www.cbc.ca/sports/baseball/mlb/red-sox-pitcher-rodri...

Missing the season vs dying though ?

Myocarditis can absolutely cause death during exercise, as the poster said. They didn't say any athletes actually died due to this.

https://www.myocarditisfoundation.org/exercise-during-myocar...

Of course it can; however, it's not solely caused by corona virus.

Is it verified, conclusively, that those people didn't already have a form of Myocarditis?

This isn't something that's likely to ever be verified conclusively, but we do have evidence that COVID-19 is associated with myocardial injury and myocarditis. Sure, it's not impossible a young, fit and healthy professional athlete was suffering from undiagnosed heart inflammation prior to contracting a novel virus. It's very unlikely to be the case when a bunch of healthy young people are suddenly diagnosed with the condition concurrent to testing positive for COVID-19, though.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/more-sports/what-e2-80-99s-...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589790X2...

I haven’t. I skipped my yearly physical in April. Not sure when I’ll get it rescheduled, but I’ll make a note to ask about this.

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