No doubt this is going to be an issue at college campuses across the country. Hopefully all schools have a protocol in place for managing these scenarios, if they're bringing kids back to campus in the Fall.
@1dawg I agree that it will be an issue, but with a death rate of .0015 percent for this age group, it shouldn't be.
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@1dawg I agree that it will be an issue, but with a death rate of .0015 percent for this age group, it shouldn't be.
I agree with you. This age group is very unlikely to have grave effects from the virus. However, I'm sure parents are concerned and once the media gets ahold of "outbreaks" at college campuses, it will create public outcry (right, wrong, or indifferent). SIU needs to make sure they have mitigation plans in place and should be working on communications that would be shared, should it become an issue. I'm sure the number of instances in Southern Illinois is very small in the scheme of things, but kids coming back to campus and passing the virus along to teachers, administrators, coaches, etc....will also be an issue that should be accounted for now.
@1dawg I agree that it will be an issue, but with a death rate of .0015 percent for this age group, it shouldn't be.
I read yesterday that Liberty University had its graduation ceremony after not shutting down at all for the spring semester. The interesting thing is that there were 0 cases of student virus during the whole time. Other schools should look into what methods of social distancing they used...or does it not affect adolescence that much.
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@1dawg I agree that it will be an issue, but with a death rate of .0015 percent for this age group, it shouldn't be.
I agree with you. This age group is very unlikely to have grave effects from the virus. However, I'm sure parents are concerned and once the media gets ahold of "outbreaks" at college campuses, it will create public outcry (right, wrong, or indifferent). SIU needs to make sure they have mitigation plans in place and should be working on communications that would be shared, should it become an issue. I'm sure the number of instances in Southern Illinois is very small in the scheme of things, but kids coming back to campus and passing the virus along to teachers, administrators, coaches, etc....will also be an issue that should be accounted for now.
I think this whole thing is largely overblown. But I do agree with your assessment. I have a daughter who is a student athlete. I am concerned for her and her teammates and her coaching staff, but would be more concerned if they had to stay home.
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Several universities this week joined a growing list of schools reporting coronavirus cases within their athletic programs.
Arkansas State reported that seven athletes from three sports programs tested positive last Wednesday. They were all asymptomatic and will remain in quarantine for 14 days, the university said.
Three football players from Auburn University in Alabama tested positive, an Auburn athletics spokesperson confirmed to CNN. The three athletes are asymptomatic and have been placed in self-isolation in a dorm away from the rest of the team.
Marshall University and Oklahoma State University announced they've each had several athletes test positive. And Iowa State University reported one new case.
The new cases come after multiple reports surfaced last week that at least five players on the University of Alabama football team tested positive for the virus.
Kevin Klintworth, senior associate athletic director at Oklahoma State University, said Wednesday that three student-athlete tests resulted in "asymptomatic positives." More than 150 student-athletes, staff and administration members were tested during the athletic department's reopening protocol.
Oklahoma State linebacker Amen Ogbongbemiga, one of the three players, announced on Twitter he had tested positive after attending a protest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
"After attending a protest in Tulsa AND being well protective of myself, I have tested positive for COVID-19. Please, if you are going to protest, take care of yourself and stay safe," he tweeted.
He was one of 30 players on the football team to return to campus last Monday.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/07/us/universities-athletic-programs-coronavirus/index.html
It has never been about the death rate, particularly in regard to these populations. It is about the risk of these populations spreading the disease to other, more vulnerable, demographics and in the process risk overloading hospitals with covid-19 cases.
(Inflammatory political snark)
It has never been about the death rate, particularly in regard to these populations. It is about the risk of these populations spreading the disease to other, more vulnerable, demographics and in the process risk overloading hospitals with covid-19 cases.
I agree. I also wonder about the benefits of building some immunity to this virus through contraction. I hate to think about this stuff spreading, just wondering if we as humans (most humans), can build up resistance. I don't expect anyone to have definitive answers on this....at this point.
