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Impact and control of the COVID pandemic in an elite sports club: Real Madrid

The incidence and risk factors for poor outcome in patients with COVID are well known, as are the protective measures in high-risk populations. In contrast, the epidemiological and clinical behavior of this disease in the population of elite athletes who are the paradigm of good health is poorly und...

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Autores principales: Mihic, Niko, Abascal, Jaime, Chicharro, José López, Segura, Felipe, Huurman, Suzanne, de Aysa, Borja Núñez, Bouza, Emilio
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedad Española de Quimioterapia 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9910681/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36336951
http://dx.doi.org/10.37201/req/072.2022
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author Mihic, Niko
Abascal, Jaime
Chicharro, José López
Segura, Felipe
Huurman, Suzanne
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Bouza, Emilio
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Abascal, Jaime
Chicharro, José López
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description The incidence and risk factors for poor outcome in patients with COVID are well known, as are the protective measures in high-risk populations. In contrast, the epidemiological and clinical behavior of this disease in the population of elite athletes who are the paradigm of good health is poorly understood. Data on COVID in athletes are scarce and have focused preferentially on the consequences on sports performance of confinement measures and on the pathophysiological risks of infected athletes. Real Madrid is a large elite sports institution with facilities in the City of Madrid where 600 athletes train daily. The incidence of COVID during a study period of 671 days of observation in athletes, professional or amateur, working in the institution has been 0,74 per 1,000 days of exposure. The disease has been asymptomatic or oligosymptomatic in all athletes and did not require any hospital admissions. The different teams did not have to suspend any of its sportive commitments for COVID during the study period and there was no evidence of outbreaks of internal transmission between members of the different teams.
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spelling pubmed-99106812023-02-16 Impact and control of the COVID pandemic in an elite sports club: Real Madrid Mihic, Niko Abascal, Jaime Chicharro, José López Segura, Felipe Huurman, Suzanne de Aysa, Borja Núñez Bouza, Emilio Rev Esp Quimioter Original The incidence and risk factors for poor outcome in patients with COVID are well known, as are the protective measures in high-risk populations. In contrast, the epidemiological and clinical behavior of this disease in the population of elite athletes who are the paradigm of good health is poorly understood. Data on COVID in athletes are scarce and have focused preferentially on the consequences on sports performance of confinement measures and on the pathophysiological risks of infected athletes. Real Madrid is a large elite sports institution with facilities in the City of Madrid where 600 athletes train daily. The incidence of COVID during a study period of 671 days of observation in athletes, professional or amateur, working in the institution has been 0,74 per 1,000 days of exposure. The disease has been asymptomatic or oligosymptomatic in all athletes and did not require any hospital admissions. The different teams did not have to suspend any of its sportive commitments for COVID during the study period and there was no evidence of outbreaks of internal transmission between members of the different teams. Sociedad Española de Quimioterapia 2022-11-07 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9910681/ /pubmed/36336951 http://dx.doi.org/10.37201/req/072.2022 Text en © The Author 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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Impact and control of the COVID pandemic in an elite sports club: Real Madrid
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9910681/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36336951
http://dx.doi.org/10.37201/req/072.2022
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