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Big yikes. UConn played them on Tuesday.
UConn Unaffected by Seton Hall Covid Pause [merged]
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WOW!!! We need the vaccine post haste!!!
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This is why I don’t take any of our scheduled games for granted. Contact tracing being one reason. I hope tomorrow’s game is not postponed.
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Seton Hall has not played Xavier
oldude
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No, but Seton Hall played UConn on Tuesday. Assuming that the infected Seton Hall individuals were players, and not staff personnel, who exposed UConn players during the game on Tuesday, following CDC guidelines, UConn would quarantine for a minimum of 7 days, thus forcing a postponement of the Xavier game tomorrow.
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CDC says you have to go back 48 hours from the positive test or symptoms for contact tracing. don’t know CT or school/big east policy. It also depends who was positive. if it’s a player then we might be in another pause.
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Good news
oldude
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Very good news. Feel like the Huskies dodged a bullet.
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Money I suspect. May also be some reluctance to look more like professionals than student athletes.
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Pirates on Pause; Two BIG EAST Games Postponed - Seton Hall University Athletics
Effective immediately, the Seton Hall women's basketball team will pause all team activities due to recent positive COVID-19 tests.
So soon after the UConn game. While I don't like to see it, I hope for UConn's sake it was a staff member that wasn't at the game.
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I sense a teachable moment here.
Both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines do prevent the disease with greater than 90% efficacy. COVID-19 is the term for the disease, not the virus that causes the infection (SARS-CoV-2). The symptoms of the disease are largely the result of a strong autoimmune response where the immune system attacks healthy tissue as well as virally infected cells. In 20-40% of people who become infected by the virus, there are no symptoms and thus no disease. In these cases, the viral infection is arrested in the upper respiratory system before a systematic response occurs. It is clear that unvaccinated people who are asymptomatic can spread the virus to others even if they themselves never develop the disease. It is not yet clear yet whether either vaccine can reduce infection or asymptomatic transmission by vaccine recipients.
That being said, Moderna recently provided an addendum to their EUA application to the FDA containing additional data that includes asymptomatic cases that occurred in the vaccine and placebo groups during the 28 day period between the first and second shot. It showed a 63% reduction in asymptomatic cases in the vaccine group. The efficacy of the vaccine in reducing asymptomatic viral infection after the second dose has not yet been reported. The same data has been requested from Pfizer and they are supposed to report their results in January. So stay tuned.
Moderna Supplementary Data
Both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines do prevent the disease with greater than 90% efficacy. COVID-19 is the term for the disease, not the virus that causes the infection (SARS-CoV-2). The symptoms of the disease are largely the result of a strong autoimmune response where the immune system attacks healthy tissue as well as virally infected cells. In 20-40% of people who become infected by the virus, there are no symptoms and thus no disease. In these cases, the viral infection is arrested in the upper respiratory system before a systematic response occurs. It is clear that unvaccinated people who are asymptomatic can spread the virus to others even if they themselves never develop the disease. It is not yet clear yet whether either vaccine can reduce infection or asymptomatic transmission by vaccine recipients.
That being said, Moderna recently provided an addendum to their EUA application to the FDA containing additional data that includes asymptomatic cases that occurred in the vaccine and placebo groups during the 28 day period between the first and second shot. It showed a 63% reduction in asymptomatic cases in the vaccine group. The efficacy of the vaccine in reducing asymptomatic viral infection after the second dose has not yet been reported. The same data has been requested from Pfizer and they are supposed to report their results in January. So stay tuned.
Moderna Supplementary Data