Indeed. Footballers are at very low risk regardless of race due their age, fitness and access to elite level medical care.
Pogba Tests Positive for Coronavirus
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Fight virus with virus.
Playing covid the Jose way
Get well soon Pogba
Playing covid the Jose way
Get well soon Pogba
Well I hope she didn't go with him, that would be a tad irresponsible. Anyways that's my opinion. I would hope he went solo and then tested before he went home to see his wife. Unless he's a guy that wants to take chances, then he can do whatever he wants with his life.
Why is Pogba being named but the six Chelsea players aren't?
The virus will certainly be around for years, but it's crazy how far the media are driving its potency. Apparently if you're American and under 35, you have more of a chance of being hit by lightning than dying of COVID-19. By all means wear a mask, social distance and isolate if you have symptoms, but don't follow the hysteria in the media, you'll be driven insane.
Crazy how the virus doesn't spread during riots...
We don't know if Pogba is in 'elite' health. He could have a condition we don't know about and not to mention his wife is pregnant. There's been healthy young people who have died of his virus. Over 800k deaths worldwide. Maybe too much Fox News for you.
Poor lad. Wish him an instant recovery, and hope it’s not serious at all. Same goes for the 6 Chelsea lads.
Yes and the Telegraph is reporting it and not putting the Sun as the source. So you are saying that @duffer is right and the Telegraph is wrong?
Well, in the UK it's been widely accepted - even by the NHS - that black and ethnic minorities have a higher risk of contracting the virus. I'm not sure whether that translates as having a higher chance of dying from it though.
My wife - who's a pharmacist for the NHS - has had to attend meetings/fill out risk assessment forms because of this.
Yeah that's another massive plus Pogba will have over the rest of us mere mortals; he almost certainly won't need it but it's great it's there for our players
Poor lad..wasn't partying in Greece either 
Presumably because he’s specifically withdrawn from the France squad citing this reason while the others have had no reason to name themselves and are protected by GDPR.
You don't really need to ask that do you?
Pogba is a huge name and "headline news" that they love to hate on. Chelsea players.... are Chelsea players.
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So Paul expecting a second child?
I know a lady who is a professional mountain climber, and had climbed Everest twice, the fittest you can literally be, and she nearly died from covid19, and took her around 3 months to properly shake it off. No idea yet on any long term consequences.
Yes, the stats look good for younger people, but that's meaningless for the minority outliers who suffer or even die.
Hope some good can come of this because of Pogba's fame and appeal: that it gives young people, especially in UK and France, a shock that anyone can get it, and perhaps they all take social distancing more seriously.
But isn’t that due to the fact that they largely live in more deprived areas largely due to our racist society?
Surely it can’t be genetic?
Contraction would surely be socio-economic though? As in, cramped into tight spaces etc. It's hardly a case of white people somehow being more resistant with better immune systems? Unless they're healthier in general.
Do you have a link to the studies?
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Oh sweet Jesus, what next!
Just to get this out of the way, I’m very much Ole, Phelan, Carrick etc in and have never wanted them out yet. However, it’s plain stupid of them to allow this. Even if they didn’t know, they and the two players should have done some prior research.
No, it's because Deschamps came out and said Pogba has it.
Didn't know he had the one tbh! But yeah, unless John Terry was knocking about somewhere in the background, Pogba is expecting his second child.
I guess. Do those people have any pre-existing conditions? I know a couple people who had it and didn't feel anything and kicked it within a week.
All best & speedy recovery.
Let me guess it's all one big conspiracy?
What a really bizarre comment to lead with.
While that's true, where is the news of Ndombele lighting up the newspapers?
Just goes to show how human biases work. That's the first thing he thinks about when he hears Pogba's name.
That's due to their lack of access to good healthcare in comparison to white people and not their genetics.Black people are more vulnerable to the virus isn't it?
My god.
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yeah, looked it up.
Black people four times more likely to die from Covid-19, ONS finds.
Again, really hope he recovers instantly, most importantly for his own health, but also because we’re screwed without him against Palace.
https://www.90min.com/posts/paul-pogba-tanguy-ndombele-test-positive-for-coronavirusWhile that's true, where is the news of Ndombele lighting up the newspapers?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...virus-Spurs-midfielder-miss-France-squad.html
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/12514353/man-utd-paul-pogba-coronavirus-deschamps/
Good thing all Americans are under the age of 35 then!
Is he with any other United players? Martial was rumoured to be getting the call up for the french squad, would him and Pogba be together for this?
Exactly. His age and fitness is on his side but the virus seems to be a roll of the dice for some people and we can only hope Pogba deals with it well.
Also, I see some posts are oriented towards disappointment from a Man Utd perspective. In this case I would say feck Utd, we should just be concerned from a human point of view and thoughts should only be for him and his family.
Pogba has had multiple medicals. The last one being 4 years ago before he made an 89 million pound move. If they didn't detect anything with his health, then I'm not sure what the point of those medicals are.
If his wife didn't think there would be a chance of her catching the virus then maybe she needs to think more.
Healthy young people die of other things too and the real number of deaths we will never truly know as some hospitals are incentivized to report covid deaths. Keep living in fear and hysteria though, only 2 more weeks I promise.
Yep, that's the big worry.
A lot of people fall into the trap of thinking of it as recovered or dead, but the reality is that many of the people who recover go on to have health issues for quite some time to come. Professional athletes like Pogba are probably less likely to get those issues, but a small deterioration will end up making a far bigger impact on them than a normal person.
Chances are it'll be nothing, but it's worrying.
They were photographed out at as the paper put it, a 'swanky restaurant' the other night.
If we can't beat Palace at home without any one player we're really in for a struggle this season.