Covid stops UCONN Men(women to continue practice)

[Monte]

UConn men report positive COVID-19 test, suspend team activities

The UConn men’s basketball team reported a positive COVID-19 test for one of its players Wednesday, temporarily shutting down practices three weeks before the start of the season. “The UConn men’s basketball program has temporarily suspended team activities,” read a statement from the...

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[Ozimoto]

Uh Oh.

 

[southofnorth]

Hope whoever tested positive is okay and recovers quickly. I’ll take the healthy athlete and staff over a game or even an entire season any day (and of course I would like the season to happen, too!)

 

[bluedevil]

Not a surprise..the state has it bad right now...hopefully whoever tested positive recovers quickly..

 

[Zanzman]

Not a surprise..the state has it bad right now...hopefully whoever tested positive recovers quickly..

What state has it bad ? Not CT

 

[VaConnFan11]

Why is this news anymore?

Treat the positive case(s), test the others and move on.

 

[Fairfield Fan]

What state has it bad ? Not CT

Not to go off-topic on Covid, but considering that the UConn men's team has just suspended basketball activities, makes sense to review. According to the Washington Post's data, we've gone from the lowest infection rate per population in the summer, to about 27th highest rate over the past week. The number of people hospitalized has gone up abut six times from under 50 patients in the summer to over 300 hospitalized now. Our infection rate over the past several days is double what it is in New York state. So, yes, the situation has become much worse in the past few weeks, both in totals and relative to our immediate neighbors.

 

[eebmg]

Why is this news anymore?

Treat the positive case(s), test the others and move on.

From what I understand, that is not the process for the BE. 1 case and the program facilities shuts down for 14 days Hard to see how a season can be completed under that approach and many coaches want to amend that.

 

[Bronxjeff]

What state has it bad ? Not CT

The UCONN geography department hosts an excellent webpage on the virus, updated daily and shown by town. Their overall virus progress graph shows that CT is indeed in a very steep increase and has been for a month:

 

[willtalk]

Like any other virus it seems to have to run its course. Most of the state that have had a low infection rate are now having high numbers. It just took much longer to reach those states. Most of them do not have the high conjested population centers that allowed it to spread faster. Sometimes there is nothing that can be done except let it run its course. Most people will get it at one time or the other and the majority will of the infections will be relatively non serious. Only those in high risk catagories and also dealing with other issues will be at high risk of death.

 

[JordyG]

Like any other virus it seems to have to run its course. Most of the state that have had a low infection rate are now having high numbers. It just took much longer to reach those states. Most of them do not have the high conjested population centers that allowed it to spread faster. Sometimes there is nothing that can be done except let it run its course. Most people will get it at one time or the other and the majority will of the infections will be relatively non serious. Only those in high risk catagories and also dealing with other issues will be at high risk of death.

The problem with that is no one knows the long term complications associated with this nova virus. Once again, this is not the flu. It is a nova meaning new virus, never seen before. Who knows if 10, 20, 30 years from now those infected, even those who were or are asymptomatic, will develop lung, liver, heart or even brain damage. No one knows. So to me, limiting the infection rate as much as possible is not only the smart course, but in the long run we may be saving our society unbelievably hefty medical costs.