Now that the Big Ten has authorized us to play, this is the next B1G thing standing in our way: COVID
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Some day we'll look back and WTF we were thinking treating covid like the plague.
These games aren't being canceled due to covid, they're being canceled due to the draconian quarantine measures that puts an entire position group in lockdown for no good reason
These games aren't being canceled due to covid, they're being canceled due to the draconian quarantine measures that puts an entire position group in lockdown for no good reason
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There are over 400 tests awaiting results, which will hopefully be posted in Tuesdays update--it is too early to say whether there was a drop or increase.
21 days sounds like too much. MLB has no definite time, but requires 2 negative tests 24 hours or more apart. After an initial glitch attributed to the Marlins, this has worked well IMHO N
this is a really important point that is getting glossed over. cancelling for "COVID" does not mean anyone actually tested positive. I hear the UNCC coach talking about the fact that he had all these OL being quarantined due to "contact tracing". this is the first I heard about that.
if we all have a 15 min result from a saliva test, then why is that not the standard.
Not everyone has access to the 15 minute test. Even if they did G5 schools probably can't afford daily testing.
I'm not sure why more schools aren't using SalivaDirect. It is non-proprietary and while it is not "instant" results you can easily have "same day" results because the university labs can run it themselves (even UNCC -- it is cheap and any lab that is already running PCR can run it).
The quest to find every single covid case on campus continues.
Not shooting the messenger here, but how many of those schools are doing daily POC (i.e. "15 minute") tests?
I think the answer is "zero."
As such, probably doesn't mean much as you look forward to Big 10 schedule.
So for fun, I took at look at ESPN's behind the scenes of the big resumption of play decision piece. Most hilarious part, buried about a third of the way in, was an anonymous source quoted as saying the exercise was about giving the presidents' cover. The rest of the article, naturally, is devoted to giving the presidents cover.
No loss. So far ND has played Duke, South Florida, and now a cancelled game with Wake Forest. Sooner or later they’ll have to play a team above the high school level.
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I know the B12 came out with very specific guidelines as to when a team must cancel regarding total number of players, players at position groups, etc. I don't believe the ACC has done so, but i could be wrong. Regardless, I am puzzled about the lack of transparency in dealing with these issues.
Does this mean ND has 13 players unable to play or 23? Either way, don't they likely have close to 100 players on the team? So, are they saying they can't play a football game with at least 75 players who apparently don't have covid?
I realize we are in unprecedented times, but i would hope there would be more definitive answers to many questions regarding when games are canceled. Seems like it is just up to the whim of each individual school.
More like the quest to find every person that has tiny fragments of coronavirus genetic material in their nose, 90% of the positives have such a small amount of material it’s clinically insignificant.
For those that think Warren is bad, check out what the PAC 12 commish did. He moved the date of bonuses up, took his 2.5 mil bonus, then laid off and furloughed 94 of his 196 person staff.
State College schools are going back to in person learning because despite the case count on campus, the rest of the community hasn't been affected (shocker)
OK there has to be something very wrong with PSU's dashboard.
Last week they had 270-some cases with 470-some pending tests. Somehow the large majority of those pending tests came back positive since they now show 597 positives for last week. This despite only 270 some of the first 2200 tests of the week coming back positive. Is PSU double counting cases?
Last week they had 270-some cases with 470-some pending tests. Somehow the large majority of those pending tests came back positive since they now show 597 positives for last week. This despite only 270 some of the first 2200 tests of the week coming back positive. Is PSU double counting cases?
The dashboard is not very well presented in a number of ways.
I noticed that it works at lot better in IE (Chrome has some issues with the platform).
Few things:
1) I would focus most on the "current active cases" number. If you focus on the number of positives in a given week (or even the trend in that) it ignores the fact that students are recovering (and thereby subtracting themselves from the total problem). Note: that there are WAY fewer current active cases than there are "total positive cases". This is a good thing.
2) One thing that jumps out at me is that the on demand testing has a 18% positivity rate and the random testing only has a 1%. This suggests that many of the people who are going to on demand testing have covid like symptoms (out of which 1 in 5 actually have covid). Will be interesting to see how this number changes over the course of flu season but I would suspect that the positivity rate for on demand testing will go down as more students will present with covid like symptoms but actually have the flu.
3) As per above, the 1% positivity rate among the general population (i.e. the random testing, assuming this is a true random draw from the population), seems about right, although it's tough to tell because most jurisdictions are either not doing random testing or not reporting it in this fashion.
4) The low number of students in quarantine/isolation seemed odd to me at first, but I assume that means kids are either going home or live off campus (these are only on campus numbers) rather than quarantining on campus.
29 cases today in Centre County.
I get nervous because my Mom lives in a senior community there, but can isolate.
I am also looking at what is going on in Europe, and I have to conclude this virus must have some significant level of seasonality.
I get nervous because my Mom lives in a senior community there, but can isolate.
I am also looking at what is going on in Europe, and I have to conclude this virus must have some significant level of seasonality.
