KU AD Long: Administrators discussing contingency plans for 2020 college football season
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Too much money in football to shut it down for a thousands dying? I’m not optimistic there will be sports next year. The growth curve of the spread of the virus needs to be slowed before any predictions can be accurately made and we are very much on the upswing side of the curve. Hopefully we get this virus shut down, but the NCAA tournament had never been canceled before either. Never say never I suppose.
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Until there’s a vaccine, it’s going to be spreading and re-spreading. Big crowds and close-contact activities will be petrie dishes.
Let’s pull for the research community to come up with some effective remedies in the next few months to allay some of the fear by the fall. This would likely allow for activities for healthy young people to resume. A vaccine is probably a year + away.
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The Doctors were talking this morning , and they are starting to find evidence that in some of the Southern Countries are entering they’re Winter Seasons that the virus is starting to pick up some cases being seen.
This is drawing them to the conclusion that the Corona Virus may very well be a seasonal virus , just like the flu If that’s truly the case just makes it that much more vital that they get this vaccine in place they are trying to find
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@jayballer73 said in KU AD Long: Administrators discussing contingency plans for 2020 college football season:
The Doctors were talking this morning , and they are starting to find evidence that in some of the Southern Countries are entering they’re Winter Seasons that the virus is starting to pick up some cases being seen.
This is drawing them to the conclusion that the Corona Virus may very well be a seasonal virus , just like the flu If that’s truly the case just makes it that much more vital that they get this vaccine in place they are trying to find
There is also potential that if it is seasonal, but the same strain, individuals may be able to develop antibodies and ultimately immunity to it. If that does happen, along with a vaccine, it can likely be cut off after just one year.
If it mutates into a different strain, with the same level of infection, though, look out. We can’t do this every year.
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FWIW the current belief by some doctors is the people who survive have anti-bodies that make them immune in the short term, likely 1-2 years. They are urging any health care professionals who have recovered from covid-19 to go to the front line as they should be safe or if reinfected it should be much milder. They are also trying to extract the anti-bodies out of recovered patients to see if they can use them to help critically ill patients recover. It’s one hell of a battle, but with any luck nothing beyond football should be cancelled.
