Beijing time on August 2, according to reports from WCVB TV in Boston, MLB Boston Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom announced that team pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez was infected with the new coronavirus. He was later diagnosed with myocarditis and will miss all games in the 2020 season.
In this regard, Bloom said, "We remain very optimistic and believe that Rodriguez will make a full recovery. His condition is not serious and his heart function is currently normal. But considering the uncertainty and persistence of myocarditis, it is necessary to Spending a lot of time nursing, he will miss all games this season. "
Rodriguez was diagnosed with COVID-19 after returning to training in the summer, and then resumed training on July 18. Although Rodriguez's test results were negative in subsequent nucleic acid tests, MRI results showed that there was a problem with his heart. For safety reasons, the team's medical staff believes Rodriguez needs to rest for at least a week, so starting on July 23, he has been participating in baseball-related activities with restrictions.
Targets the effects of myocarditis, which is an inflammation of the heart muscle, often caused by a viral infection, that can lead to arrhythmias, cardiomyopathy or heart failure , according to Johns Hopkins Medicine .
According to statistics from the Athletic Training Committee of the American Heart Association, 22% of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 develop acute cardiac injury, and the prevalence rate caused by acute viral infections other than COVID-19 is about 1%. āWhile we donāt yet know much about the long-term effects of COVID-19 on the heart, there is no question that this virus affects the heart,ā said Jeffrey Goldberger, a cardiologist at the University of Miami Health System.
Before Rodriguez was diagnosed, many athletes were infected with COVID-19, but most of them successfully returned to competition after recovery. Take the Chinese player Wu Lei as an example. He scored in the first game after recovering from recovery and completed the rest of the La Liga schedule with the team after the resumption. As for NBA, Utah Jazz player Rudy Gobert's previous diagnosis led to a large-scale "suspension" of the game. Later, he participated in the rematch and scored the first sports goal in the NBA rematch.
Judging from the performance of the game, their bodies were not affected too much. But unlike Rodriguez, Wu Lei and Gobert took a while to resume training and competition after recovering. Therefore, Rodriguez's absence from the rematch is a reminder to the league and team managers that the impact of COVID-19 on athletes' bodies remains to be seen.
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