How the NFL players returned to field after suffered from COVID-19
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DrThom Mayer, the chief medical adviser for the NFL players association, told USA today sports that it had been a horrible experience for the players when they were given the new that they had been tested positive. He informed that the players were concerned about their family and livelihood and pondered if they could ever play again with the usual ability level.
Mayer realizes that the coronavirus situation has affected all sectors of the society and left none. Even the risk and the uncertainties of the condition are carried by physically fit athletes and sportspersons. The players are being tested for the virus since 1st august with the training camps being opened by the NFL and NFLPA. With such facility being provided, 7262 players have been tested positive as they were about to play for super bowl live on 7th February.
Mayer said that they are depended on their bodies and physical capabilities to earn their income. Mayer expresses his grief by mentioning that people told him that being a doctor would lose his mental faculties and won’t be able to see patients anymore. He may or may not recover anymore. covid have made it difficult for the players who already struggle with high stress that already exists in the players associated with violent sports and worry about playing their last game whatsoever. The covid seems to be a reality check for such people.
Generally, the people with preexisting illness and aged people are threatened with the coronavirus. This has not decreased the risk or possibility of the covid casualties for the NFL players. According to Mayer and other medical experts, lots have to be learned about the coronavirus.
The temporary indication has been felt across the NFL among the titans, ravens and browns and some of the league’s high profiles players.
Lamar Jackson had left the game at Cleveland because of cramps suspected by Jackson n ravens to be the result of covid 19 which stopped the player from playing for two weeks.
When asked Jackson if the cramp is anything related to the covid effect, he answered that it was probably due to body heat as they were running in the cold.
Jackson was reported as covid positive with extreme fatigue symptoms, loss of taste and smell, cramped hand, forearm, arm and fingers, and flu-like signs. Jackson was well hydrated nevertheless, which otherwise puzzled the ravens.
Raven coach John Harbaugh said that it’s quite a mystery as no one can understand whether it is covid 19, nutrition or diet problem. This is seen in most of the cases as Covid-19 kept on changing its symptoms, thus making a confusion while detecting one.
A wide range of effects are reported by the players who are affected by the covid. It is not only considered as a respiratory disease by; also, it proved out to affect cardiovascular function. Mayer was shocked when he heard about the player’s comeback with higher body mass index such as linemen and linebackers who are at higher risk of complications because of their BMI.
