Is Cam Skattebo’s Apology Enough to Silence the Outrage Over His Controversial CTE Joke?
It’s no wonder that McKee, who has researched the disease for more than 18 years, sees the development of a CTE test in the living as an ultimate gamechanger. She would get no argument on that point from Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL’s chief medical adviser, who told USA TODAY Sports recently that a blood test based on biomarkers could be most practical for large-scale screening.
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“That is the No. 1 goal, finding a way that we can detect this during life. Or detect when a player is going downhill,” McKee said. “And that needs to be applied to youth players, too. We need to make it a sensitive test that can pick up these changes very early on.



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