OT- Ivy League will not have a spring sports season
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/30924371/ivy-league-league-play-due-covid
From the article:
"The Ivy League will not have a conference spring sports season, meaning it won't hold competitions or host league championships because of "rigorous limitations" that continue on its campuses during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the conference announced on Thursday."
February 19th, 2021 at 11:35 AM ^
Can you cite some data here to back your points?
Increased transmissibility of the variants has some evidence to support it, but I haven’t seen increased severity expressed with any level of confidence elsewhere.
February 19th, 2021 at 11:36 AM ^
Stupid site... this is a question meant in reply to bluesalt. -1 HUEL
February 19th, 2021 at 11:53 AM ^
I’m trying to find a not-paywalled article — does this one work for you? For me it brings me right to the NYT update about the British variant from this week, but because it’s running list of stories, I’m not sure where it will bring you to.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/13/world/covid-19-coronavirus.amp.html
February 19th, 2021 at 11:56 AM ^
Yep that worked, and I hadn’t come across this or similar stories til now. Thanks for sharing.
February 19th, 2021 at 12:04 PM ^
C'mon man, the sources are pretty widely available. Go to the NYT front page or even just google COVID cases or deaths on a certain date and you will be able to see the data.
What Bluesalt is saying is on the day the Ivy league announced the cancellation of fall sports, which was July 8th (from what I can tell) there were 59,455 new cases (7 day average 52,620) and 841 deaths (7 day average of 591). As of yesterday, there were 71,874 new cases (7 day average of 72,848) and 2,620 deaths (7 day average of 2,530).
The case / death numbers are definitely trending in the right direction, but they are still higher than they were when the Ivy league made their initial decision, thus this new announcement is not that surprising. You can make all kinds of arguments about vaccines, variants, COIVD impact on college aged population specifically --- all the arguments that have been had ad nauseam on this board for the last 10 months --- but the data suggests the US is still in a precarious position regarding COVID and definitely worse off then we were in the summer when the initial cancellation was announced (this last statement may not be true by the time spring sports would actually start).
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
February 19th, 2021 at 2:12 PM ^
Wow coming in hot here... I asked bluesalt something specific about a claim made, he/she answered and we were good.
I’m not sure what you’re trying to accomplish on the other hand with the criticism, additional facts not really specific to our Q&A, and possibly answering questions I didn’t even ask?
“C’mon man”
February 19th, 2021 at 11:42 AM ^
Wonder how they will recover from the lack of athletics across so many sports
February 19th, 2021 at 12:01 PM ^
Internal consistency is good. Seems in line with their mission if things like research electives etc. are limited for undergraduates.
February 19th, 2021 at 1:17 PM ^
Well, universities are supposed to be for learning.
February 19th, 2021 at 4:25 PM ^
as of now.....
February 19th, 2021 at 4:26 PM ^
And nobody outside the Ivy League will notice.