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Report: Penn State doc says 30%-35% of Big Ten athletes with COVID-19 may have myocarditis

The leading doctor in a Big Ten athletic department has just added another coal to the ever-stoking fire that is football in the fall during the pandemic.

According to the Centre Daily Times, Wayne Sebastianelli, the Penn State director of athletic medicine, spoke at the State College School Board of Directors meeting on Monday. Sebastianelli said cardiac MRI scans of Big Ten athletes who have tested positive for COVID-19 showed around a third of them had symptoms of myocarditis.

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