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Ask anybody on the planet, “What do Tom Hanks, Boris Johnson, and Prince Charles have in common?” and they will instantly shout – “Corona.”
Ask these same people, “Who were the three Prime Ministers that died of Coronavirus last month?” Few will respond, “Well…there was Nur Hassan Husein from Somalia, Mahmoud Jabril from Libya, and Joachim Yhombi-Opango from Congo – who died (respectively) in London, Cairo, and Paris.”
As of May 4, no fewer than eleven movie stars had contracted COVID-19, nine with fatal results. Other victims include retired Commanders of the Turkish and Polish Armies, a well-known rapper, and a mafia hitman. Almost half of the famous COVID-19 victims have been athletes, not surprisingly from countries that report unusually high infection rates (see list below).
History is largely written in the lives of famous disease victims. The “black death” of 1348 claimed only eleven well-known people, including the King of Spain, the Royal Consorts of England and France, four famous painters, and two Archbishops of Canterbury. In contrast, 62 famous people died during the “Spanish Influenza” pandemic, accounting for 39% of known causes of death in this population from 1918 to 1920!
COVID-19 in Athletes
– fatal
– soccer
– American football
– basketball
– cricket
Ezequiel Garay
Jonathas de Jesus
Thomas Kahlenberg
Peter Madsen
Callum Hudson-Odoi
Norman Hunter
John Rowlands
Eliaquim Mangala
Arnold Sowinski
Omar Colley
Jannes Horn
Timo Hubers
Luca Kilian
Fabian Nurnberger
Stefan Thesker
Zaccaria Cometti
Fabio Depaoli
Innocezo Donina
Alessandro Favelli
Luciano Federici
Manolo Gabbiadini
Antonino La Gumina
Daniele Rugani
King Udoh
Henk Overgoor
Morten Thorsby
Zafar Sarfraz
Bartosz Bereszynski
Dusan Vlahovic
Mohammed Farah
Hyun-jun Suk
Baldiri Alavedra
Mikel Arteta
Goyo Benito
Jose Luis Capon
Jose Luis Gaya
Benito Joanet
Miguel Jones
Albin Ekdal
Tom Dempsey
Rudy Gobert
Orlando McDaniel
Donoval Mitchell
Christian Wood