In other news:
1.There is increasing doubt about how long lasting immunity will be to Covid.
Immunity to Covid could be lost in months:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/immunity-to-covid-1...
2. Hopes had been that immunity would last for at least several years, as was true of SARS, and that it would not be like OC43 or 229E, two other coronaviruses that cause "colds", where you could be re-infected as soon as 4 months after recovery. COVID may end up being only a four month immunity, however, as we are seeing cases where people are re-infected four months later:
https://www.vox.com/2020/7/12/21321653/getting-covid-19-t...
This is a single case, so it may be something unique. Note that we would not be seeing very many of these cases just yet because for it happens, you need a patient who was infected very early, and who recovered very early, and then who also got re-exposed four months later. There were perhaps only 1000 patients worldwide who had recovered by the end of February.
3. In a study of patients who had Covid and recovered, and who then later had an echocardiography done, lasting heart damage was found in about 50% of the patients:
https://academic.oup.com/ehjcimaging/article/doi/10.1093/...
In patients who only had mild symptoms, there were 215 in the sample, of whom 98 had abnormalities detected, so 45% percent of the patients will "mild" symptoms had lasting effects on their heart.
4. Even patients that show no symptoms at all may have lung damage, though it is probably reversible:
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/23/8645...
In a study published in Nature, 57% of the Asymptomatic people who had a CT scan done showed "striped shadows" or "ground-glass opacities", clear signs of inflammation in the lungs.
[Quote=Dr. Alvin Ing, a professor of respiratory medicine at Macquarie University]To find so many asymptomatic patients with such significant changes on CTs is quite surprising. The symptoms underestimate the severity of the disease.[/OUTER_QUOTE]

So, taken together, these mean football is less likely this fall. If there is no immunity, it will be very hard to re-open enough to have football. If there is lasting damage to hearts and lungs even in mild cases, I just don't see them risking playing.

One of my neighbor's co-workers got Covid.

He had relatively mild symptoms.
After self quarantining for 14 days he tested negative.

Later,he had the antibody test done.
It showed he had the antibodies.

He figured he was "protected" from reinfection.

Went back to work.
A few weeks later,he got sick.
He tested positive for covid.
This time it was much worse and he didn't survive.

Ugh, not what I wanted to hear. It's also possible that these are not re-exposures, but that the virus was never completely eliminated.

I had family members who were told by the testing facility in Chicago that they had freakishly high number of antibodies. Like double to triple the amount that they’d usually seen. The contact tracer was very interested in them and tracking them afterwards. Unfortunately my wife, my son and I never got told what our antibody numbers were.

There's an article in the "Nation's Health" section of today's The Record by John Bacon of USA Today.
The article won't link.
But if you google his name at USA today its there.

It talks about the issue of reinfection.

Experts are trying to confirm if reinfections are taking place.
So far,there is only anecdotal evidence.

A couple of things the article says:

1.The infection seems to much worse the second time.

2.If you can get reinfected,it really, "complicates" efforts to find an effective
vaccine.

Just heard them talking about this in the radio.

Apparently they have had a lot of success with some treatments.

I only caught part of it,but apparently one of the steroids they're using is
really helping.

Also,they now use blood thinners as a preventative to reduce the possibility of blood clots.

From what they said,right now they are finding the treatment option to be more promising then a vaccine.

I just saw a piece on News 12 N.J. about an elderly nurse from Hackensack
University Medical Center who was being released from Kessler Rehab after her
second bout with Covid.

She's from this area,so hopefully the local papers will go into a bit more detail.

But that's another example of reinfection.

This continues to be a sad, hidden story of Covid19; "mild" cases are mild in the sense that the patient doesn't need to be hospitalized, but for some it may take months to recover, and doctors have no idea why some take longer than others:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/06/cor...
https://www.today.com/health/covid-19-long-haulers-doctor...
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-it-means-to-be-a-... /

CDC says 1/3 of people who aren't hospitalized have long term illness:
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/monumental-ack...
In this case, CDC describes "long term" as not being able to return to work within 3 weeks. That leaves a broad range of people, from people that take 22 days to completely recover, to those that still haven't completely recovered after 4 months, so it's not all that helpful. I'd rather they break the data down with more precision, especially giving us data on how many don't recover completely after some longer period, say 2 months.

In a German study, they took 100 people who had recovered from Covid for at least two weeks, and invited them to participate in their study. For the 100 people in the study, they gave them an MRI to look for heart damage. 78% of them revealed "cardiac involvement", and 60% showed "ongoing myocardial inflammation, which was independent of preexisting conditions, severity and overall course of the acute illness, and the time from the original diagnosis."
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullartic...

Another study has found evidence that patients who have had Covid may have heart damage. Out of 100 patients studied, 76 showed cardiac injury in line with what one would expect from a heart attack.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/longevity...

As this goes on, there seem to be as many questions as answers.

Very interesting. Certainly adds a different wrinkle to the idea that 14 Miami Marlins tested positive last week. If it begins to become clear that Covid could present a longterm threat to athlete's careers, I would expect more and more to begin to opt-out.

Baseball isn't an endurance sport,I don't think its an issue.

The people on WFAN were talking about track,cycling,swimming,wrestling,
to some extent,basketball,and certain positions in football (don't think a kicker has to worry).

Again,according to WFAN ,the first group of Marlin players that came back positive were all hanging out together in a strip club.

You mean in twelve years. Vaccine in three, and then the nine years it's going to take to convince anti-vaxxers that it's not a government mind control serum.

I'm not an anti-vaxxer.

I never heard about the vaccine being a mind control serum.

I did hear people claiming it could have a nano chip in it,kind of like "Demolition Man".

Don't believe that either.

That being said,there's no way I even consider getting the vaccine for at least a couple of years.

As I understand it,the clinical tests determine the effectiveness of the vaccine against Covid.

Potential side effects don't become apparent until the vaccine has been in widespread circulation for a period of time.

I can tell you from a bad experience I had with Aleve,the side effect was worse then the pain.
In my case the side effect (muscle weakness) wasn't even on the package.
It may be now.
I researched it and was at the bottom of the list of potential side effects.

Lucky me.

Biggest joke.
I sent a letter to the manufacturer (Bayer) about it.

Got a letter back,thanking me for my comments,with a coupon for a free bottle.