Category: Health Conditions / Infectious Diseases / COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

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What Does Competing With COVID Do to an Athlete’s Body?

In rare cases, the virus can directly infect and inflame your ticker. That’s the “myocarditis” you probably heard folks talk about at the beginning of the pandemic. (But this is super rare, especially in athletes; even in the earlier days of the pandemic, researchers estimated the rate of COVID-related myocarditis to be around 1%, according […]