JonnyHintz

December 21st, 2021 at 6:37 PM ^

While UGA’s QBs are in close contact protocol, it’ll be interesting to see if it gets extended to other position groups as well. Even if just precautionary. QBs tend to be in close proximity with RBs and OL, even in a no-huddle offense. 
 

Georgia may want to play it safe to avoid a spread. 

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Ronswanson13

December 21st, 2021 at 6:44 PM ^

Does anyone know how Michigan/the B1G has been testing this year and how/if that’ll change for the playoffs?

The state has had fairly high case numbers all fall and the fact that we didn’t hear of a single case makes it seem like they aren’t testing much (make only if you have symptoms?) I certainly hope that’s the case for the next couple weeks because as we’ve seen in the NHL and other sports leagues, positive tests are happening like crazy in vaccinated, largely asymptotic players. I’d really hate to have this playoff game impacted - for either team - due to this. Likewise, I was admittedly rather annoyed that Michigan and it’s staff haven’t already been in a bubble already. They’ve worked so hard to get to this point.

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swn

December 21st, 2021 at 6:47 PM ^

I'm glad I got as much joy out of beating OSU and winning the big ten championship as I did because I'm afraid the playoffs might be a shit show with a big asterisk however it plays out.

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1WhoStayed

December 21st, 2021 at 6:47 PM ^

Man I hate the “news cycle” we live in these days. Snippets of info, some are BS and rumors, and rarely any meat of the bone (i.e. context).

Was he tested because he was symptomatic? Because he hadn’t been vaccinated? 

If the approach is going to be “test everyone and positives can’t play” just cancel the games now. All bowl games. This isn’t going away for years. There will ALWAYS be some small percentage that are infected. Hopefully, we’re close to the point where deaths (and yes, other health issues too) as a percentage are reduced to a fraction of what they  have been.

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jmblue

December 21st, 2021 at 9:05 PM ^

 There will ALWAYS be some small percentage that are infected. 

Not a small percentage.  A lot of previously vaccinated people are going to get infected.  We see this right now in places like the UK and France which have massively vaccinated their populations.

However, your odds of becoming seriously ill as a result of said infection do decrease significantly after you've been vaccinated.   

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Venom7541

December 21st, 2021 at 10:36 PM ^

That is only for a short time. The effectiveness of the vaccine begins to degrade within 6 months, hence the push for boosters now. The good news, so far, the omicron variant, though highly transmissible even when vaccinated, is showing to be much less severe. No one knows what the future will hold, but hopefully this is an evolution of the virus to become less and less severe. It will not be leaving us, but if the virus is becoming less and less severe as well as people building up immunities, it could hopefully move to a place of inconvenience as opposed to widespread risk. At least this is what I hope.

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Creedence Tapes

December 22nd, 2021 at 1:19 AM ^

Walter Reed is developing a vaccine? Do you have a source for this? Walter Reed is a hospital, not a pharmaceutical company. I smell fake news on this one.  

Edit: Walter Reed Army Institute of Research is indeed working on a vaccine, and apparently they are in Phase 1 testing, but not a lot about this other than a Military website and a Bloomberg article and a few obscure "news" sites. 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-12-09/could-a-one-shot-coronavirus-vaccine-protect-you-from-all-variants

https://www.army.mil/article/252890/series_of_preclinical_studies_supports_the_armys_pan_coronavirus_vaccine_development_strategy

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Leaders And Best

December 21st, 2021 at 7:33 PM ^

Last year, the CFP committee was ready and open to postponing and rescheduling not only the semifinals, but any of the New Year's Six bowl games if either of the teams had a COVID outbreak. They set potential make-up dates, but I don't believe those were announced until later. I would assume the same system would be in effect for this year.

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