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10.09.2020 | COVID-19 | Response to COVID-19/Commentary
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Five Myths of COVID-19 for the Team Physician
verfasst von:
Angela M. Mercurio, BS, Arianna L. Gianakos, DO, Mary K. Mulcahey, MD, Karen M. Sutton, MD
Erschienen in:
HSS Journal ®
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Sonderheft 1/2020
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Excerpt
The COVID-19 pandemic has stunned and disrupted the sporting world. Athletes all around the world lost access to their sports due to the cancelation of professional seasons, postponements of major international competitions such as the Olympics, and closures of local sporting facilities [
11,
15]. As global stay-at-home orders, enacted to slow the spread of COVID-19, began to be lifted in spring and summer of 2020, athletes gradually began to return to sports, including professional baseball in Taiwan and South Korea, soccer in Germany, and NASCAR in the USA [
16,
17,
34]. It is possible that other leagues will follow suit in the coming months. With an abundance of false or misrepresented information, it can be difficult to sort out myth from fact. …