Football got underway for the three P5 conferences and the NFL this week. Some games will have fans and others won’t. Meanwhile the B10 and Pac12 are not playing, at least not at the moment. I read about campuses having a 1000+ cases of COVID-19 and various teams having clusters of cases but there appears to be little follow up. What fraction of the cases are asymtomatic? Are any of these cases on campuses serious enough to require hospitalization? It is too soon to know about longer term effects, but that information is important.
So the impact of COVID-19 on campuses is mostly unknown. At the moment, experiments with variable constraints are taking place on campuses. I assume we will know more in a month or two.
Meanwhile we know the following. Between 30,000 and 40,000 new cases of COVID-19 are reported daily. At the moment, the average number of deaths/day is around 750. The number of deaths is approximately 1 to 2 percent of the total cases. I don’t know what fraction of the “recovered“ people are dealing with long term symptoms. If these general population numbers apply even remotely to campuses, schools with 1000+ cases may be seeing tens of fatalities— a scary thought.
The unknowns make any prediction fraught with uncertainty. But I am confident that by January, lawsuits will be filed on behalf of athletes denied the opportunity to play and for those who played but got sick. Also, god forbid, on behalf of ordinary students who died fro COVID-19.
These are strange and uncertain times. Stay safe. Go rebels.
So the impact of COVID-19 on campuses is mostly unknown. At the moment, experiments with variable constraints are taking place on campuses. I assume we will know more in a month or two.
Meanwhile we know the following. Between 30,000 and 40,000 new cases of COVID-19 are reported daily. At the moment, the average number of deaths/day is around 750. The number of deaths is approximately 1 to 2 percent of the total cases. I don’t know what fraction of the “recovered“ people are dealing with long term symptoms. If these general population numbers apply even remotely to campuses, schools with 1000+ cases may be seeing tens of fatalities— a scary thought.
The unknowns make any prediction fraught with uncertainty. But I am confident that by January, lawsuits will be filed on behalf of athletes denied the opportunity to play and for those who played but got sick. Also, god forbid, on behalf of ordinary students who died fro COVID-19.
These are strange and uncertain times. Stay safe. Go rebels.