12-13-2020, 02:27 PM
The New York Times tried to collate the information on positive tests in athletics:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/sport...74f24220a2
They found that among the schools that released the data, there were 6,629 cases. This excludes schools that didn't release data. As the Times acknowledges, it is hard to really place this information in context. How many cases would have happened regardless of whether schools had sports on campus? There doesn't appear to have been any large superspreader events.
That being said, I posted elsewhere about the challenge segregating university students from the broader population, and I suspect the same is the case with football players. It is a challenge to separate them from the overall university population, not to mention the broader population.
BC
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/sport...74f24220a2
They found that among the schools that released the data, there were 6,629 cases. This excludes schools that didn't release data. As the Times acknowledges, it is hard to really place this information in context. How many cases would have happened regardless of whether schools had sports on campus? There doesn't appear to have been any large superspreader events.
That being said, I posted elsewhere about the challenge segregating university students from the broader population, and I suspect the same is the case with football players. It is a challenge to separate them from the overall university population, not to mention the broader population.
BC