open letter about her health after the league denied her request to be exempted from play due to an underlying medical condition.The league's reigning MVP has battled Lyme disease since 2008, and thought she would be medically excused from playing this season by a league panel due to the risks she said she faces from COVID-19.But Lyme disease is not currently included on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s list of underlying conditions that could put someone at an increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19, according to Donne.Donne’s open letter stated that she had her personal doctor who had been treating her since her Lyme disease diagnosis, and her team’s doctor, both approved a write-up of her medical history which.