Isaac
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This kind of thing halfway bothers me, halfway makes me chuckle,
www.nbcnews.com
that people believe such a 'study' can put to bed a question.
For example, this study which purports to decide the question of whether sports-related cardiac problems did or didn't rise during COVID, uses, as the 'pre-covid' data,
"Prospective surveillance was conducted from 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2018 through the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research in collaboration with national sports organisations"
But any database person should immediately see the problem here. How do we know who is reporting what? Especially since a lot of the heart problems we anecdotally heard about during COVID was in very young athletes, not necessarily "national sports organizations", how do we have any idea that every athletics organization in the world was actually reporting to this 'surveillance program' in the first place? The very places we anecdotally saw heart problems arise - little league, high school - would quite possibly not belong to an organization that just so happened to report this information to that particular organization.
The study puts nothing "to rest", as it claims. And this is why quoting studies is often a waste of time
Cardiac arrest in athletes did not increase during pandemic, study finds
Neither vaccines nor the virus prompted an increase in the number of cardiac arrests, contrary to misinformation that has circulated repeatedly.
www.nbcnews.com
For example, this study which purports to decide the question of whether sports-related cardiac problems did or didn't rise during COVID, uses, as the 'pre-covid' data,
"Prospective surveillance was conducted from 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2018 through the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research in collaboration with national sports organisations"
But any database person should immediately see the problem here. How do we know who is reporting what? Especially since a lot of the heart problems we anecdotally heard about during COVID was in very young athletes, not necessarily "national sports organizations", how do we have any idea that every athletics organization in the world was actually reporting to this 'surveillance program' in the first place? The very places we anecdotally saw heart problems arise - little league, high school - would quite possibly not belong to an organization that just so happened to report this information to that particular organization.
The study puts nothing "to rest", as it claims. And this is why quoting studies is often a waste of time
