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Will the NCAA March Tourney be played without an audience?

Wouldn’t that mean the NIT would be the same, if not cancelled entirely?
 
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I believe the plan is for the audience to stay home, to use remote control cameras, for the refs to wear body suits and for the players to wear gloves and masks. Players that can dribble with gloves will have a tremendous advantage.
 
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Has anything like this happened in anyone’s lifetime? I’m 32 and the closest I remember is just this fall with EEE.
 
uconngb said:
But everyone attending games w the flu is ok??? Which is like 1000x and causes like 10000x more deaths?? Nice job by mainstream media creating a completely unnecessary panic.
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Thank you.
 
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uconngb said:
But everyone attending games w the flu is ok??? Which is like 1000x and causes like 10000x more deaths?? Nice job by mainstream media creating a completely unnecessary panic.
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Uh, somebody just died on US soil today already. The flu has been around much, much longer.
 
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You people talking about the flu are comparing apples to oranges. The flu kills thousands every year, yes, but, so far, deaths per infection are roughly twice as high for the current outbreak of coronavirus. Hopefully that rate will go down, and hopefully there won't be too many infections in places that haven't already had them.
 
The 1918 flu pandemic killed millions globally....

But, on avreage, the death to infection rate for flu is 0.1 %...

On average, seasonal flu strains kill about 0.1 percent of people who become infected. The 1918 flu had an unusually high fatality rate, around 2 percent. Because it was so contagious, that flu killed tens of millions of people.

The coronavirus death rate may be even lower, if — as most experts suspect — there are many mild or symptom-free cases that have not been detected.

Early estimates of the coronavirus death rate from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the outbreak, have been around 2 percent. But a new report on 1,099 cases from many parts of China, published on Friday in The New England Journal of Medicine, finds a lower rate: 1.4 percent.

The true death rate could turn out to be similar to that of a severe seasonal flu, below 1 percent, according to an editorial published in the journal by Dr. Anthony S. Fauci and Dr. H. Clifford Lane, of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Robert R. Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
 
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Would you guys rather go to a basketball game that 1 in 100 people have the flu or 1 in 100 people have the coronavirus? Personally, I'd take my chances with the flu, but that's just me.
 
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The press conference today had the two leaders say that a female had died in Washington State when it was a male. Not very encouraging. The reduction in travel is a big hit on the economy.
 
Coronavirus is 10 or 20 times more deadly than the flu. So stopping or slowing its spread through the general public should be a priority. Japan, Korea and Italy are all taking measures to reduce transmission. They should be considered here
 
Glenn said:
Coronavirus is 10 or 20 times more deadly than the flu. So stopping or slowing its spread through the general public should be a priority. Japan, Korea and Italy are all taking measures to reduce transmission. They should be considered here
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20x equals 2%. The Spanish flu killed millions because of the war and counties hid the problem to not give adversaries any advantage. It’s called Spanish flu because Spain was neutral and willing to tell the world they had a problem. Those most vulnerable are old, young and immunocompromised. Is it serious? Yes. Is it the end of world? No.
Should UConn be cancelling school? Soon, if it spreads. To many kids in confined spaces in dorms, classrooms, etc.
 
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