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Yikes! Ivy League cancels hoop tourneys...men and women

No political slants please. If this topic can't be discussed without slipping in political opinions then we'll shut it down.
 
Alydar said:
The Spanish flu did most of it's damage in it's second year. Those who get COVID and recover have shown permanent scarring of the lungs which makes it more difficult to recover a second time.
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Can you provide a link or something to the evidence of this? I googled it and so far I’ve come up with no articles or websites claiming that it causes permanent lung scarring—only bronchitis in more extreme cases.
 
Umm, maybe I am a bit naive here but the idea that if they allow only the teams to play "in empty" gyms still requires facility personnel, school personnel and get this-travel by the teams, referees and television personnel to use airports, trains stations and hotels, all are hotbeds for potential infection-are they not?

Not sure I understand how flying a team across the nation in a closed plane environment will help...
 
DefenseBB said:
Umm, maybe I am a bit naive here but the idea that if they allow only the teams to play "in empty" gyms still requires facility personnel, school personnel and get this-travel by the teams, referees and television personnel to use airports, trains stations and hotels, all are hotbeds for potential infection-are they not?

Not sure I understand how flying a team across the nation in a closed plane environment will help...
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Every bit of reduction helps. You are right that it will not reduce the risk to 0, but it will probably reduce 98% of possible transmission by axing fans. It's above my pay grade to decide if operating at around 2% of the risk ordinary operations is worth it, but I do think it will help tremendously.
 
southofnorth said:
Can you provide a link or something to the evidence of this? I googled it and so far I’ve come up with no articles or websites claiming that it causes permanent lung scarring—only bronchitis in more extreme cases.
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I read a lot of reports on the topic and can't specify one source but this site has been spot on in predicting the course of this virus for about a month, and this guy is a pathology expert. He has posted nearly daily updates and in at least one of them the subject of re-infection is discussed. I believe I read about the scarring issue from a report from doctors in China studying recovered patients, some of whom either got reinfected or else never really recovered, but can't recollect the specific source.

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Here's a good source for the history of the Spanish flu.

 
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UConner said:
What I would do is give each player/manager 4 tickets and make everyone sit apart
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This is exactly what Cornell University is doing for this weekends athletics events: Limited attendance with 3 tickets for each athlete which will equal about 150 people for hockey and close to 200 for lacrosse

NCAA 1st round women's hockey game (Cornell vs Merrcyhurst)
ECAC Men's hockey quarterfinal series (best of 3) versus Princeton
IVY League Lacrosse versus Yale in Schoellkopf Field (outside stadium)
 
Alydar said:
The Spanish flu did most of it's damage in it's second year. Those who get COVID and recover have shown permanent scarring of the lungs which makes it more difficult to recover a second time.
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The flu mutates quite rapidly partly because it reproduces/spreads so rapidly - the hypothesis is there was a mutation to more virulent strains between 1917 and 1918/19. The likelihood is that the second wave did not infect the same people as those who survived the first wave probably had greater immunity to the next waves.

Hard to judge the Sars viruses as they have not had the same level of human migration/mutations.

Interesting situation with flu vaccines that many people do not realize - early on each year a group of laboratories determine the most likely strains of virus that will spread during the coming season and create a vaccine aimed at the most likely individual strains and pray they covered the bases for the coming year as the vaccine goes into production and gets released to the public six months later - some years they nail it, some years not so much.
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IVY League has cancelled all spring sports, no practice and no games. The IVY League has 3 of the top 5 teams in NCAA D1 lacrosse, including Cornell ranked #2 at 5-0. What a cruel ending to what could have been.
 
Geew1992 said:
The Connecticut just canceled the high school state tournament. Sorry but this is ridiculous!
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Geew - Try reading wbball's post. Great explanation and it will clear up a lot of questions.
 
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