08-12-2020, 12:04 PM
Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere, but Jon Wilner, citing a conference source, has summarized the reasons why the Pac-12 decided to shut down athletics competition for fall 2020:
1. The unsafe level of viral spread in 9 of 11 local jurisdictions
2. Local restrictions--e.g. in LA county currently QBs are not allowed to play catch with their WRs; down the road a single positive test might trigger the exceeding of a local threshold that would require an entire team to quarantine.
3. Myocarditis--not a new finding per se, but, per the medical advisory committee, there are too many unknowns including the potential for cardiac complications for asymptomatic Covid infected folks
4. Testing--still not enough quick turn-around testing, plus the optics of using up resources that are not avaialble to the general public.
At this point, I'm still hopeful that the four issues outlined above can be resolved satisfactorily by January and at least some of the fall sports can have abridged winter/spring seasons.
I do have a question for the medically trained folks on this board? Does extreme physical exertion exacerbate the effects of myocarditis? In other words, are athletes more likely than non-athletes to suffer a sever consequence of myocarditis?
1. The unsafe level of viral spread in 9 of 11 local jurisdictions
2. Local restrictions--e.g. in LA county currently QBs are not allowed to play catch with their WRs; down the road a single positive test might trigger the exceeding of a local threshold that would require an entire team to quarantine.
3. Myocarditis--not a new finding per se, but, per the medical advisory committee, there are too many unknowns including the potential for cardiac complications for asymptomatic Covid infected folks
4. Testing--still not enough quick turn-around testing, plus the optics of using up resources that are not avaialble to the general public.
At this point, I'm still hopeful that the four issues outlined above can be resolved satisfactorily by January and at least some of the fall sports can have abridged winter/spring seasons.
I do have a question for the medically trained folks on this board? Does extreme physical exertion exacerbate the effects of myocarditis? In other words, are athletes more likely than non-athletes to suffer a sever consequence of myocarditis?
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)
