[OutsiderFan]

I'd like to see confirmation (verification of no false positives) of those PL/Bundesliga data points before I buy into the conclusion, which is quite appealing.  However, I don't think I'm ever going to hear confirmation of that... 

I do have it on good authority (friend of friend) that high-level athletes are taking up to two months to recover from non-hospitalized cases of covid.  The friend of a friend needed a whole month before feeling "normal" again.  No one's writing articles on this as it would expose coaches and trainers to all kinds of scrutiny, possibly legal, involving their risk mitigation practices, athletes' well-being, and infection protocols vs. local public health edicts.

But I thought the news media only blew things out of proportion to make them look worse than they really are?

In all seriousness, this tracks to what I have gathered. There are some who never experience symptoms, but those who do, even in the least severe cases, are laid up for 2-3 weeks, take an additional week to recover back to even being able to walk for more than a few minutes again, let alone get back to competitive athlete shape. And then it gets worse from there. And of course, there is evidence of lung damage even in those who don't ever present symptoms, and reported this week, brain damage possible too.

[OutsiderFan]

I'd like to see confirmation (verification of no false positives) of those PL/Bundesliga data points before I buy into the conclusion, which is quite appealing.  However, I don't think I'm ever going to hear confirmation of that... 

I do have it on good authority (friend of friend) that high-level athletes are taking up to two months to recover from non-hospitalized cases of covid.  The friend of a friend needed a whole month before feeling "normal" again.  No one's writing articles on this as it would expose coaches and trainers to all kinds of scrutiny, possibly legal, involving their risk mitigation practices, athletes' well-being, and infection protocols vs. local public health edicts.

But I thought the news media only blew things out of proportion to make them look worse than they really are?

In all seriousness, this tracks to what I have gathered. There are some who never experience symptoms, but those who do, even in the least severe cases, are laid up for 2-3 weeks, take an additional week to recover back to even being able to walk for more than a few minutes again, let alone get back to competitive athlete shape. And then it gets worse from there. And of course, there is evidence of lung damage even in those who don't ever present symptoms, and reported this week, brain damage possible too.