The issue of COVID-19 has affected sports in a number of ways, but the pandemic has hit a little closer to home for some members of the LSU football team like senior linebacker Travez Moore.
Moore appears to be the first player on the team to have publicly shared his experience with coronavirus, taking to Twitter this week.
He wrote he had dropped from 256 pounds to 229 pounds, lost his appetite, sense of taste and smell and had difficulty breathing — all of which are considered serious symptoms of contracting the virus.
Bro coronavirus is real 👎🏿.. i was 256 now I’m 229 because i lost my appetite and it’s hard to eat plus you can barley breath. You can’t smell food you can’t taste food or taste any liquids.. stay y’all ass in the house https://t.co/GU66rkau0v
— vezz (@moore_travez) August 4, 2020
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Multiple LSU football players were reported to have tested positive for coronavirus back in June, when Sports Illustrated reported that no less than 30 players of the Tigers’ 115 were in quarantine due to either a positive test result or coming in contact with someone who had tested positive.
Coach Ed Orgeron later said the number reported was too high and said his team’s case numbers were “way down.”
College football players have to option to opt out of the season amid the pandemic, but so far, no one on the LSU team has done so.
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