SCHSL sports flip flopped

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[MolliesMaster]

how long does COVID live on a surface?

On that note, what exactly is the point of the hybrid program? It's not like if little Johnny had it on Tuesday skipping school on Wednesday is gonna change anything?

I have no kids in sports or school so I'm just an outsider.

[SCDAWG]

BINGO!

Plus the bullshit of masks in every level of schools will be a disaster.

[FEETDOWN]

Exactly. The hybrid model is dumber than anything else proposed......

[Daniel]

I disagree, I think that whole proposal to swap seasons was intended to ensure football got played and if anybody was going to get screwed over, it was going to be spring sports. Again......

That is where you are wrong. The proposal included each sport being put into risk tiers. Baseball was a low risk sport. Low risk sports were scheduled to play in the fall, with the spring being a backup plan. With football being high risk, it only made sense to push it back to ensure ALL sports were played.

[Tater]

Almost impossible for kids to transmit the virus to adults FYI.

Interesting.

[Jozie & Me]

I'd love to have football start Feb 1 right after duck season ends. finish up April 1.

done.

We wont have to worry about the heat indexes and canceling practices because of high humidity.

And there ain't shit else going on during that time.

[FEETDOWN]

That is where you are wrong. The proposal included each sport being put into risk tiers. Baseball was a low risk sport. Low risk sports were scheduled to play in the fall, with the spring being a backup plan. With football being high risk, it only made sense to push it back to ensure ALL sports were played.

Maybe so, but I'm cynical. Follow the money.....

[Tater]

Where’s Dawhoo? I need his input on this.

[Daniel]

With the Lexington appeal being dropped, you can just about guarantee no sports will be played this fall. I hope I am wrong.

I also don’t see logistics being on our side for all sports played this spring. Officials, fields, coaches, transportation.

[LowcountryBuck]

Interesting.

It is fascinating. Children under 10 have almost no evidence of spread. High Schools may be a different issue. There are a number of studies coming out from Europe supporting this. One recent one from Iceland:

https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...cting-parents/

Kari Stefansson, CEO of the Icelandic company deCODE genetics in Reykjavík, studied the spread of COVID-19 in Iceland with Iceland’s Directorate of Health and the National University Hospital. His project has tested 36,500 people; as of this writing, Iceland has 1,801 cases and ten deaths. On a per-capita basis, Iceland ranks near the very top in testing.

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In an interview with the Science Museum Group, Stefansson makes an extraordinary statement:

Children under 10 are less likely to get infected than adults and if they get infected, they are less likely to get seriously ill. What is interesting is that even if children do get infected, they are less likely to transmit the disease to others than adults. We have not found a single instance of a child infecting parents.

Other researchers in other countries aren’t quite so sure of that, determining that children can definitely carry the virus. (It may be that children’s immune systems fight the virus better, resulting in less coughing, which reduces the likelihood of infecting someone else.)

If the Icelandic conclusion is accurate, it would be a strong argument for reopening schools, suggesting that children would not be at harm from exposure to each other, and that teachers would be similarly unlikely to catch the virus from their students. (Teachers could catch the virus from other teachers and other adults in the school.)

There are studies from Korea and Italy that might argue the point but it seems that studies from Iceland, Germany, etc. point to almost no transmission.

Here is another article that suggests *shocker* we need more research to know "definitively"...but several studies to show that kids rarely spread the virus in Australia ans Switzerland.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...schools-reopen

As scientists study the burden of COVID-19 around the globe, it's pretty clear that despite some cases of serious illness, kids tend to get infected with the coronavirus less often and have milder symptoms compared to adults.

"It seems consistently, children do have lower rates of infection than adults," says Dr. Alison Tribble, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan.

What's much less understood is the extent to which kids can spread the illness among themselves — or to the adults with whom they come in close contact.

A lack of testing early in the pandemic has been part of the problem, says Dr. Judy Guzman-Cottrill, an infectious disease pediatrician at Oregon Health and Science University. "We need more robust epidemiologic studies to evaluate how children are part of the transmission chain," she says.

Given the uncertainty, the decisions on how to safely reopen schools are tricky.

"Kids don't seem to be super spreaders," says Dr. Aaron Carroll, a pediatrician at Indiana University School of Medicine. But, since most schools around the country closed in March as the virus began to circulate more widely, it's really an unanswered question.

"Schools will now be the experiment," Carroll says. "We're going to see a bunch of schools open with varying levels of control, and then we will see what happens."

There are a handful of preliminary studies from other countries that suggest there's less transmission of the virus from kids to adults or kids to other kids, especially among younger children.

For instance, a study from Switzerland included children who were diagnosed with COVID-19 at a hospital in Geneva. Contact tracers identified the children's household contacts. They found that the child was the suspected spreader of the virus in only three of the 39 cases.

Another analysis from Australia included nine students and nine adults, who were infected with the coronavirus and came into contact with more than 700 other students and more than 125 staff members. The researchers found that only two infections were known to be linked to these exposures.

[Tater]

I just read this.....

https://pediatrics.aappublications.o.../2/e2020004879

Strange. Very strange.

[LowcountryBuck]

I just read this.....

https://pediatrics.aappublications.o.../2/e2020004879

Strange. Very strange.

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