Will the NCAA March Tourney be played without an audience?

[TerryBoyz]

Hearing the E-sports team will play the games instead

 

[Palatine]

The flu for this season (Oct 1- Feb 1) in the USA , not counting Coronavirus is between 18,000 and 46,000 according to the CDC.

The death rate of Coronavirus is currently unknown because mild cases are often undetectable and moderate cases are often attributed to regular cold or flu.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[uconnyankee]

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.

Yes but it’s very likely the number of cases is underreported.

 

[auror]

I would not hold games (or I would have no crowds) for the games in Washington. Or at the very least I would have a STRONG contingency plan. That situation is escalating and the testing is woefully underreporting the spread of the virus there. They are up to 9 deaths in Washington, most of whom were tested post-mortem, and there is no link known for how the nursing home that most of the deaths were from was infected.

It's perhaps an outlier since the nursing home was more at risk, but 9 deaths would imply something like 500 cases, instead of only the 27 actually confirmed. That means the difference between the two numbers is undetected and currently spreading the virus at a likely exponential rate. Even if that number is only 200 instead of 475 due to the cluster nature of the deaths, it's much, much worse than 27, since it represents an additional ~4 growth cycles.

The only saving grace is that it might still be fairly early in the potential pandemic there. It seems like cases have been roughly tripling in a week, so there might only be a few thousand cases in Washington by the time the games are played as opposed to 50k in a month if it spreads without being contained.

Washington State risks seeing explosion in coronavirus cases without dramatic action, new analysis says

A computational biologist estimates there are likely already at least 500 to 600 coronavirus cases in the greater Seattle area.

www.statnews.com

 

[navery12]

 

[David 76]

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.

We have absolutely no idea how many deaths this will cause. It is brand new and estimated to be 20 times more deadly than the flu.