With tentative dates, protocols and logistics in place, the NBA is further along than a number of other professional sports organizations as it looks to resume its season. The plan also has the support of the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Speaking to Stadium, Fauci said he has reviewed the league’s blueprint to resume play and commended the plan.
“It is really quite creative,” Fauci said. “I think they might very well be quite successful with it. It is to create a situation where it is as safe as possibly can be for the players by creating this bubble.
“Essentially testing everybody, make sure you start with a baseline of everybody being negative and make sure there is no influx into that cohort of individuals.”
Given a spike in coronavirus cases in the state of Florida, along with certain unclear safety measures and the fallout from the civil unrest, the NBA’s potential return has hit a snag this week. However, if everything progresses toward the playing stage, Fauci is in full support.
“It’s something that I think is a sound plan,” he added. “I was pleased to see that the intent was not reckless at all. They really wanted to make sure the safety of the players and those associated with the players was paramount.”
“Given a spike in coronavirus cases in the state of Florida.”
The lead epidemiologists have consistently warned against looking at increasing cases WITHOUT context of increased testing. What matters is positive RATE, hospitalizations, and deaths, always on a 7-day rolling basis to smooth out daily reporting anomalies.
Of course you’re going to find increased cases if you do increased testing, but those positive could include people who are well beyond the contagious stage. Tests pick up the decayed virus that are still inside the body. Also, there’s evidence out of both Italy and Pittsburgh show that active infections are decreasing in strength, which leads to decreased hospitalizations and death rates.
I know, I know, but Arizona, but Texas, etc. There were always going to be hot spots (and those numbers don’t even mean every square mile of the state is a hot spot). You deal with hot spots as they come and go, you look in depth at reasons (simply “opening” is not a valid cause, as many open locations continue to have decreased and/or minimal infections/deaths/hospitalizations) and everybody else gets to go on with their lives.
stop making sense. it doesn’t get clicks and that’s what the corporate press need.
Infection rates will follow red-hat rates. Where there are people who are saying it’s a hoax, there will be a rise in those who get it.
On the other hand, those will be the places with greater biological immunity do to Darwinian breeding. So in a couple centuries their descendants will be better off. Hooray!
It’s all odds.
Why do we care what he has to say at this point anyway?
Why wouldn’t you?
Dr Who? Thought his 15 mins of fame were over ? We can all feel much safer now