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30-35% of Big Ten athletes had myocarditis after testing positive for COVID-19, according to medical expert

Throughout the period of COVID-19 and people arguing whether or not it was harmful to athletes and younger folks, Penn State’s Director of Athletic Medicine has supposedly found a very daunting statistic.

From the positive cases of coronavirus in the Big Ten, around 30-35% of those infected were found to have myocarditis, a form of inflammation of the heart muscle, according to the Centre Daily Times.

The threat of myocarditis is one of the reasons why athletic directors across the nation were hesitant to continue with a fall football season, and rightly so.