Marquette is pausing all activities for its men's/women's basketball teams after one positive COVID-19 test from each team.

[Carnac]

Marquette (Big East Conference) is pausing for 14 days all activities for its men's and women's basketball teams after one positive COVID-19 test from each team. The school did not specify whether the positive tests came from athletes or other personnel, but all those who fall into Tier 1 would be quarantined for two weeks. What happens if this occurs during conference play?

Marquette pauses programs after COVID positives

Marquette halted all activities in men's and women's basketball for two weeks after one positive COVID-19 test from each team.

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[oldude]

While UConn has done a good job containing coronavirus infections at Storrs, the school’s success is due in part to the state of CT’s relatively low infection rate, limiting the opportunity for community spread of the disease. Unfortunately, Wisconsin has one of the highest infection rates in the country right now, making it far more difficult for a school like Marquette to control the virus.

 

[Zinethar]

I would hope that the Big East would consider this when making the schedule. The NFL screwed up by not adding a couple extra weeks so that things could be rescheduled when things go bad. It is bound to happen so plan for it. I wonder about the 14 day thing as it seems with constant testing that might be longer than necessary. We are constantly learning more about this virus, how it is transmitted, incubation period, treatments, etc. The best hope for sure is that those extra weeks would not be needed.

 

[Fairfield Fan]

Connecticut had one of the lowest infection rates in the country. But infections have been rising fast. From one or two infections per 100,000 population in late summer, we're now up to 13 per 100,000. And instead of being centered Fairfield County, a hundred miles from Storrs, now it is eastern Connecticut where the virus is raging. That's a lot closer to campus, and where the casinos are, and where the workers in those casinos live.

Infections and hospitalizations are both rising. From the lowest or next to lowest, we're now 13th lowest. Better than most, but the dangers are increasing by the week.

We're not out of the woods by any means. This is the second wave, and Connecticut is caught up in it.

 

[Centerstream]

Connecticut had one of the lowest infection rates in the country. But infections have been rising fast. From one or two infections per 100,000 population in late summer, we're now up to 13 per 100,000. And instead of being centered Fairfield County, a hundred miles from Storrs, now it is eastern Connecticut where the virus is raging. That's a lot closer to campus, and where the casinos are, and where the workers in those casinos live.

Infections and hospitalizations are both rising. From the lowest or next to lowest, we're now 13th lowest. Better than most, but the dangers are increasing by the week.

We're not out of the woods by any means. This is the second wave, and Connecticut is caught up in it.

I'm glad to see you quoting relative (IMO) statistics in your post: the number (or ratio) of positive results per 100,000 tests. It bothers me when the number of new cases is reported but they fail to report how many tests were given or a per 100,000 ratio. However it may not matter if the school decides to quarantine everyone affiliated with team.

 

[Skeets]

IMO hospitalizations per 100,000 is an extremely important statistic because it greatly influences the most awful statistic, deaths per 100,000. Testing statistics are a little suspicious. How many tests, how many multiple negative tests for a given person, how many multiple positive tests, how many were asymptomatic, etc. Lots of moving parts with testing statistics even when you look at testing per 100,000.

 

[JordyG]

IMO hospitalizations per 100,000 is an extremely important statistic because it greatly influences the most awful statistic, deaths per 100,000. Testing statistics are a little suspicious. How many tests, how many multiple negative tests for a given person, how many multiple positive tests, how many were asymptomatic, etc. Lots of moving parts with testing statistics even when you look at testing per 100,000.

Indeed. Again, it's the number of hospitalizations and positive cases that drives testing. Not the other way around.

 

[Fairfield Fan]

IMO hospitalizations per 100,000 is an extremely important statistic because it greatly influences the most awful statistic, deaths per 100,000. Testing statistics are a little suspicious. How many tests, how many multiple negative tests for a given person, how many multiple positive tests, how many were asymptomatic, etc. Lots of moving parts with testing statistics even when you look at testing per 100,000.

Exactly. The Washington Post has detailed data for the states. We rank fifth in the number of tests per 100,000 population (of the 50 states) over the past week. We went from 1% positive rate in late summer to between 2.5-3.0% most recently. Our hospitalizations are rising as well. We went from less than 50 hospitalized in the late summer to over 200 now. And while Fairfield County has 90 infections per 100,000 population, which has been the center of Covid in the state, now it's New London County, with 139 per 100,000.

Not "OT," but keeping BY abreast of what's going on in our state that could affect our WCBB season.

 

[CL82]

IMO hospitalizations per 100,000 is an extremely important statistic because it greatly influences the most awful statistic, deaths per 100,000. Testing statistics are a little suspicious. How many tests, how many multiple negative tests for a given person, how many multiple positive tests, how many were asymptomatic, etc. Lots of moving parts with testing statistics even when you look at testing per 100,000.

At my kid’s college, COVID positives were coming fast and furious along with 14 day quarantines and contact tracing. The thing is the people around the person who had positive test weren’t also testing positive. So the kids started getting retested by a local hospital and all tested negative. The conclusion that they’ve come to is that the schools testing contractor has a lot of false positives for whatever reason. So now when ever they pop a positive on a random test by the college, they immediately go to the hospital and get tested there. The school says they are disregarding the hospitals test in favor of their contractor, which I understand, but the occurrence of false positives sre just too common to be a fluke.

 

[CL82]

And while Fairfield County has 90 infections per 100,000 population, which has been the center of Covid in the state, now it's New London County, with 139 per 100,000.

That’s interesting. Back at the start of this thing New London County was notoriously low in diagnosed cases. Are we seeing the start of herd immunity in the places that got hit early and perhaps “quarantine fatigue” in the places that avoided the first wave?

 

[Biff]

O.K. Once again we have a Covid related conversation transitioning from a specific UConn/WCBB reference to a general Covid discussion.

We are not having general Covid discussions on this forum.

 

[Fairfield Fan]

That’s interesting. Back at the start of this thing New London County was notoriously low in diagnosed cases. Are we seeing the start of herd immunity in the places that got hit early and perhaps “quarantine fatigue” in the places that avoided the first wave?

Not sure what's happening in Eastern Connecticut, but in Fairfield County you have a lot of office workers who no longer go into the office. That's keeping infections down. And there is a lot of awareness along the shoreline of what it takes to keep safe. The exception is Danbury, which could be getting hit because there are a lot of working class Hispanics who have to go into stores and other large venues where they're being infected in greater numbers, as is the case elsewhere in the U.S. And the universities coming back is also contributing to infections. Danbury has Western Connecticut State University.

Metro North is still operating with a tiny fractions of the riders it had until Covid. And that had to be a major vector in the early days.

Just sayin'....

 

[Fairfield Fan]

O.K. Once again we have a Covid related conversation transitioning from a specific UConn/WCBB reference to a general Covid discussion.

We are not having general Covid discussions on this forum.

Not meant to be a "general" discussion. If UConn women are going to have an actual season, then Covid needs to be contained at least in Connecticut. But today, we had over 2,000 positive tests, the second highest total since this began. We UConn fans need to be aware of what's happening in our state. The season hinges on it.