McDavid wasn't able to fight off the flu & strep throat for 25 games. If you accept that NHL games are spaced 2 days apart on average, that's 50 days.
Now I'm no athlete, but the longest I've been sick from flu and/or strep throat was 2 weeks, so 14 days.
Any human with an immune system that weak should really be spending all his off-ice time in an isolation room like "bubble boy".
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