Opinion: Add Covid-related myocarditis, mechanical ventilation, and death to this year’s football risks
Our fourth annual Football Injury Highlight Reel is taking a different tack this year. In previous years — 2017, 2018, and 2019 — we surveyed injuries to youth, high school, college, and pro football players, some quite serious and some even career- or life-ending. This year we focus on the effect Covid-19 has had on the game because in 2020 a chief health harm of football at all levels of play hasn’t been the physicality of the game itself but the coronavirus.
The spread of Covid-19 associated with contact sports ripples outward from players, staff, and fans to entire communities.
