There are some firms developing rapid testing with hopeful deliveries for next 2-4 months but they won’t be cheap.
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2020 CU football season POSTPONED until Nov 6th?
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That's still not feasible for every game across America at these levels for everyone involved with a game. Especially, at the high school level when a lot of Schools can barely fund their athletics.
Zapata
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Abbott Labs has already shipped 1.7 million units of their Covid-!9 Tester. It's portable, so maybe the conference could purchase a couple, and have it as a shared resource? One issue, is it tests for antigens, only revealing if someone has had Covid or not. So it wouldn't be able to identify someone who was currently infected, and hadn't developed antigens yet.
https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom...date-on-abbotts-work-on-COVID-19-testing.html
Yeah, I feel like these antibody/antigen tests will be useful going forward, but it’ll be vital for each school to have their own rapid testing. You don’t want a positive player anywhere near the rest of the program.
ahoelsken
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I think more and more people will see the abbott type machines that can provide results in a close to instant manner before sporting events.
That was a great interview with Klatt. He also pointed out that these state schools (SDSU, Fresno, San Jose State) which have already said they're going to remote learning are for the most part commuter schools, therefore a vast majority of their students come from in state. However the 2 UC schools Cal and UCLA get a much higher percentage of out of state students which of course they get more money from, so these schools not having students on campus would pretty much kill the UC system. Therefore Cal and UCLA are almost certainly going to have students on campus come this fall. And with Stanford and USC being private everyone pays the same tuition but a good portion of their students undoubtedly come from out of state too.
Another thing he said was that he has had discussions with top-level people from various schools who have very heavy influence on decision making and he is 98-100% sure that college football will happen this fall.
The ID Now rapid test is not an antigen/antibody test. It is a molecular test that looks for the viral RNA. The Alinity i test is the antibody test.
Everybody should plan this way. Easier to pull back, if necessary, than gear up late.
I’m not sure the Abbott kit is good enough for same day rapid testing for sports. Recent NYU data showed a ton of false negatives. Gottlieb likes other rapid test (45 mins) better.
Done correctly, ADs will need to budget 6 figures for testing.
test, trace, isolate remains essential for control.
ahoelsken
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Yeah I don't think theres any doubt about that. We don't know what this is going to look like on Monday-much less in August.
So, hammering a semester out in 2.5 months and then having everyone scatter??
Oh, yeah. That is for sure. I just hadn't heard word of an abbreviated semester. Very curious what that would look like.
Notre Dame starting (or planning to start) classes early per https://ndsmcobserver.com/2020/05/n...nd-to-fall-semester-suspension-of-fall-break/ .
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Notre Dame will begin the 2020 fall semester the week of August 10, eliminating fall break and finishing the semester before Thanksgiving, University President Fr. John Jenkins said in an email to students on Monday.
In addition to preventing the spread of viruses caused by students leaving for breaks, becoming exposed to infections and then returning to campus, the University plans on instating a comprehensive testing protocol. Students who test positive will be isolated and those who have come in close contact will be quarantined.
“We will continue the testing, contact tracing and quarantining protocol throughout the semester, acting aggressively to isolate or quarantine as necessary,” Jenkins said in the email. “We will also institute a number of other health and safety measures.”
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Notre Dame will begin the 2020 fall semester the week of August 10, eliminating fall break and finishing the semester before Thanksgiving, University President Fr. John Jenkins said in an email to students on Monday.
In addition to preventing the spread of viruses caused by students leaving for breaks, becoming exposed to infections and then returning to campus, the University plans on instating a comprehensive testing protocol. Students who test positive will be isolated and those who have come in close contact will be quarantined.
“We will continue the testing, contact tracing and quarantining protocol throughout the semester, acting aggressively to isolate or quarantine as necessary,” Jenkins said in the email. “We will also institute a number of other health and safety measures.”
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The big schools with majority out of state enrollment paying big money in tuition... cough... CU.... cough....
Seems like the players are going to have to live together in a hotel to create a controlled environment
If a team has a positive player test, then technically that team is down for 14 days, right?
I think this next year will be the largest GAP YEAR in college history! The class of 2020 and 2021 will then the largest Freshman class in Fall 2021. Talking about normal student body, not CFB players. The general fund will get a kick in the nuts in 2020-2021.
If a team has a positive player test, then technically that team is down for 14 days, right?
I think this next year will be the largest GAP YEAR in college history! The class of 2020 and 2021 will then the largest Freshman class in Fall 2021. Talking about normal student body, not CFB players. The general fund will get a kick in the nuts in 2020-2021.
ahoelsken
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We don't know yet-my guess would be the conferences would all come up with a somewhat standardized protocol for this. MLB (the only team sport to release a protocol for that) said they would not isolate an entire team because of one positive test. In that case, that player would be isolated until they tested negative twice.
I think these are smart approaches.
I’m coming around to this idea if the traced contacts are tested every other day for two weeks AND if this protocol Is consistent with that of the state for the overall population. I also favor Taking on-line class For the football team to the extent possible.
All coaches and support personnel over 60 or with predisposing conditions should be tested every other day as well.
Older members of support staff (trainers, food servers, academic advisors, etc) should be reassigned to jobs with less contact.
Just my $0.02 in the search for solutions.
Eh, seems like these institutions are simply trying to justify having students on campus so they can make their money.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Making money is kind of important.
You could say that to just about every business in America
Agreed, but it just seems irrelevant whether they start and end the semester a few weeks early. Just have a normal schedule
Seems like cuts out a potential threat in thanksgiving travel. That’s a good thing. IMO
BerkeleyBuff
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Takes advantage of the hope that warmer weather leads to less transmission (as is the case for related viruses), and even more importantly, avoids students going to all sorts of places during Thanksgiving only to come back to campus after having been exposed to who knows what.