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Even in folks being tested regularly, say every week for a professional sports team, in an open society that has covid in the community, a few cases will sneak in. And then you have the Rudy Gobert situation again. Maybe then you go to a daily regimen for the teams of exposed players once it pops up, and hope more don't come back positive so you can still field a squad.... I don't know, seems like a tenuous plan. Fantasy will be interesting.....bummer if your star QB is a late covid scratch.

And yeah, false negatives a of immense proportions problem. Probably somewhere between 5 and 30% depending on the test, the time of the test in course of disease, and the administration method.

I wonder if there is anyone advocating for college football games but not a season.

With a season--teams playing lots of other teams, often in consecutive weeks--the problems with false negatives can have cascading effects, as an infected player infects players on an opposing team and because of false negatives a third teams can get exposed (and then a fourth).

But if teams played once a month, then some of those concerns go away as you can test and re-test over a long enough time period that can you can be much more certain about whether or not there is an outbreak on your team.

I suggested that the FBS teams in California play a season within the state, home and home.

[chrisk]

Even in folks being tested regularly, say every week for a professional sports team, in an open society that has covid in the community, a few cases will sneak in. And then you have the Rudy Gobert situation again. Maybe then you go to a daily regimen for the teams of exposed players once it pops up, and hope more don't come back positive so you can still field a squad.... I don't know, seems like a tenuous plan. Fantasy will be interesting.....bummer if your star QB is a late covid scratch.

And yeah, false negatives a of immense proportions problem. Probably somewhere between 5 and 30% depending on the test, the time of the test in course of disease, and the administration method.

I wonder if there is anyone advocating for college football games but not a season.

With a season--teams playing lots of other teams, often in consecutive weeks--the problems with false negatives can have cascading effects, as an infected player infects players on an opposing team and because of false negatives a third teams can get exposed (and then a fourth).

But if teams played once a month, then some of those concerns go away as you can test and re-test over a long enough time period that can you can be much more certain about whether or not there is an outbreak on your team.

I suggested that the FBS teams in California play a season within the state, home and home.