Two Michigan Players Test Positive for Covid-19 upon arrival
Le Sigh. Two players, sport unknown, test positive on arrival. Hopefully protocols in place have prevented any spread.
That’s it, packing up the family and leaving Ann Arbor today!
Kids - roll up the windows, lock the doors!!!
Pretty sure they rolled up the windows and locked their doors when you moved in Pennywise.
Actually rolling down the windows to ensure proper ventilation reduces the risk of spreading Covid-19. /shows self out
Are you noticing all this plight, kids?
"You don't even want to know from me, man, I ain't even from here. I'm from the west side of Chicago..."
...just here on vacation.
[Wrong place]
Sounds like Michigan has an appropriate protocol for testing and return to practice. I’d rather identify these players early before the virus spreads to the rest of the players
I can't click on the link, but did they test positive for the RNA or the IgG antibody?
If its the IgG antibody, likely nothing to get too worried about.
WCB, for the love of God, FDA approvals and scientific debates notwithstanding, please don't try to give them hydroxychloroquine. At least if they are CFB starters, m'kay?!?!? :-DDDD
Ha!
OK, but can I give them fish tank cleaner instead? It has some derivation of hydroxychlorquine phosphate in it, right? So it must be safe.
I meant to mention this the other day during our non-argument about the drug. I actually took it twice in 2007-2008 as a prophylaxis against malaria when in rural Africa. I lived, but think I got malaria anyway ;-)
Are you sure that you didn't have heart failure?
Gotta be especially careful with those drugs used by millions of people since the 1940's.
WRONG!!!!!..this drug has helped some people...not all but some so WHY would you NOT try it if your life depended on it...wouldnt you at least TRY? this argument became POLITICAL when the Democrats try to use it to blame the President....if theres ANY chance this drug might help you or soom symptoms why would you NOT try it...whats the downside...????.
People need to stop listening to the Media ...EVERYTHING is agenda driven and hyper partisan
TBH unless they had pre-existing heart conditions(which likely would prevent from being college athletes), it is probably safe.
Been anti hydroxychrloroquine all along due to lack of scientific studies, but have also taken multiple times for Malaria prevention with 0 issues. Then again I'm not elderly nor have any pre-existing conditions.
The dosage for malaria prevention and the dosage I believe that they’ve been experimenting with for covid are very different. The covid dosage is much higher (but the malaria is somewhat longer term). It is pretty typical that lower dosages have much lower side effects. I took low dose hydrochloroquine for a number of years. While they were worried about vision side effects, the deadly ones were much less a concern.
The dosage for malaria prevention and the dosage I believe that they’ve been experimenting with for covid are very different. The covid dosage is much higher (but the malaria is somewhat longer term). It is pretty typical that lower dosages have much lower side effects. I took low dose hydrochloroquine for a number of years. While they were worried about vision side effects, the deadly ones were much less a concern.
I sincerely hope that this statement isn't interpreted as an insult to these players or any others, nor is it intended to be any other type of judgement on their character.
Put me down as 'sad, but not surprised.' This was inevitable.
Is it now required for us to start every post with a "non-discriminatory" disclaimer? I truly hope not - especially considering yours was pretty damn innocuous, as well as spot on.
I'd go with "concerned" maybe, but not sad (assuming the cases are asymptomatic). Concern is for the risk of spreading to athletic department (and other) UM staff.
For someone on the athletic staff over 60 (hello Don Brown) or underlying health conditions to come in contact with a sick or asymptomatic student athlete could be life or death
Those people probably shouldn’t be doing hands on work then right now
I don't think this is sad news at all.
First, this demonstrates that we actually are testing and aren't just paying lip service.
Second, these two individuals aren't sick right now. It's possible they are pre-symptomatic, but that remains to be seen.
Third, these two presumably won't be spreading the virus to others now (assuming we have protocol in place to quarantine them), whereas they may have if we hadn't tested them. The more people like this that we find via testing, the better.
Our thinking should not be that each infection is a catastrophe. There will always be some. We should be as proactive as possible in our screening to keep the level of infection manageable.
Agreed. Without substantial continuous testing there is zero chance this works. I don't care what anyone believes is right or wrong or if teams should spread it on purpose, it is guaranteed the NCAA and most universities are not going to tolerate viral spread. And the only chance to control spread aside from the virus dying out is via testing and common sense protocols.
For example, it's workouts right now. It's easy to reduce team interaction by limiting how many people can participate at a time, sanitation, social distancing, etc. Even once fall camp starts, further separate position groups during drill, the locker room, etc. But most importantly, test the shit out of them. These athletic departments should be able to afford it.
They were not on campus playing sports, how could they have possibly been infected?
you know most states are basically open, right?
Yes, that's kind of the point.
My bad. Tough to tell sarcasm. A lot of people still think no one should be allowed to go anywhere.
Well other than the places that they approve of which somehow entail no risk.
And far more people seem to think they're not allowed to go anywhere, and get irrationally angry about it, when they actually are allowed to do plenty, like you point out.
"allowed to do plenty". . . you almost sound like you think we should just shut up and be happy with what our leaders are giving us. This whole thing is such a sham. Can we move up the voting so we can get it over with already and get back to normal?
There were 221 Michigan athletes tested. Football, Men’s Basketball and Women’s Basketball were all tested* as well as some other Fall sports athletes.
*WBB’s Izabel Varejão is stuck in Brazil due to the travel ban.
What’s the story regarding the new avatar?
25th year soon.
let them all get it now with a low viral load. Then they're all good to go by August
That would be fine and dandy if the players just isolated themselves in a football field without the need for older coaches helping them in person.
Players will be fine, but all it takes is one guy to spread it to someone elderly associated w/ the team.
What if the coach is wearing a medical grade mask and socially distanced at all times?
*not advocating for or against, just replying directly to the comment above -
We send high school kids away to camp for 2 weeks, isolating college kids for 2 weeks wouldn't be all that hard.
"elderly" is subjective.
They're not actually allowed much contact with coaches until later in the summer, so if they were exposed now, they should be past infectious before even meetings.
Is this elderly person otherwise going to isolate themselves at home? What if said elderly person accepts that risk or is engaging in other risky behavior?
Let's assume that every coach knows that and accepts responsibility for that. What's the problem?
Only 2 out of 221 is really good. If we can keep the numbers in that range we will be in good shape.
We are the New Zealand of College Football.
2 of 221 is exactly really good, it’s basically the expectation/norm at this point
Is Coronavirus a big deal for college kids? especially athletes? Honest question.
Young, excellent physical condition, regularly screened for underlying health conditions, and access to world-leading medical resources? I would guess the CFR for this group is virtually zero. Indeed, it may be ... LESS THAN ZERO?!?!?!
Robert Downey Jr. approves
Bret Easton Ellis approves.
FauxMo - Feels like you are stereotyping all football players as great athletes. What about the frail punters and placekickers? Who is there to protect them? Kickers Matter Too! #KMT
Are three stars at greater risk?!?