"The more ill you are,
the more ill you are."
Baldness,
Need glasses,
Ears pierced
Just my rule of thumb.
Not a Nobel-prize winning insight.
But it does sometimes contribute some panic reduction.
2. Check what the abnormalities were, and whether they were detected blinded, by multiple observers.
If 30% of smokers need glasses, and it is the same regardless of whether they smoked 1 per day for just 6 months, or 40 per day for 40 years,
then it is a fair bet that the needing of glasses is nothing to do with the coffin-nails.
It would involve scanning all members of a team, REGARDLESS of Covid status .
Like we did with ORBITAs stress echo results.
Hard work, non-obvious that it will help, but creates highly reliable results.
ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…
Pay for whole cohorts of players to get MRIs (small price for bigly 10 to pay).
Put the images on line for Medtwitter to report.
And once the opinions are all in, unblind.
While everyone panics and runs round in all directions simultaneously, conduct a useful experiment and report the results.
Don't have to hype the implications.
Other scientists will instantly recognise it as a well constructed experiment.
Some will get Covid over time.
Scan EVERYONE again (not just the covid getters).
Show images in publically, blinded to group and time point.
Med Twitter will then give your answer.
Definitively.