42 Wisconsin football players and staff members — 29 since Sept. 1 — test positive for COVID-19 as the Big Ten prepares for its season

[cigaretteman]

Forty-two players and staff with the Wisconsin football team have tested positive for COVID-19 as the Big Ten makes plans to get the season started.

Public Health Madison & Dane County says the 42 people tested positive since June when athletes and staff returned to campus. Twenty-nine of the positive tests were from Sept. 1 through Sept. 15.

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Health officials in Madison and Dane County are urging fans not to gather to watch football games when the Badgers begin their season in October.

“Of course it’s disappointing that something as well-loved as gathering to watch Badger football games can’t happen this year,” Janel Heinrich, director of Public Health Madison & Dane County, said in a statement. “But the reality is that it’s not possible to have a traditional football season without substantially increasing COVID-19 transmission. We value people’s health and lives over sports, and we hope that UW does as well.”

The Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors reversed an earlier decision to shut down all fall sports because of the coronavirus. The council voted unanimously to go ahead with the league’s 2020 football season beginning Oct. 23 or Oct. 24.
Forty-two players and staff with the Wisconsin football team have tested positive for COVID-19 as the Big Ten makes plans to get the season started.
Public Health Madison & Dane County says the 42 people tested positive since June when athletes and staff returned to campus. Twenty-nine of the positive tests were from Sept. 1 through Sept. 15.


“Of course it’s disappointing that something as well-loved as gathering to watch Badger football games can’t happen this year,” Janel Heinrich, director of Public Health Madison & Dane County, said in a statement. “But the reality is that it’s not possible to have a traditional football season without substantially increasing COVID-19 transmission. We value people’s health and lives over sports, and we hope that UW does as well.”

The Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors reversed an earlier decision to shut down all fall sports because of the coronavirus. The council voted unanimously to go ahead with the league’s 2020 football season beginning Oct. 23 or Oct. 24.

42 Wisconsin football players and staff members — 29 since Sept. 1 — test positive for COVID-19 as the Big Ten prepares for its season

Forty-two players and staff with the Wisconsin football team have tested positive for COVID-19 as the Big Ten makes plans to get the season started.

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[Pinehawk]

Get that inevitable spike out of the way early. It is bound to happen unless nobody is allowed to congregate at all.
Which isn't possible.

 

[Run&Blade]

Smart. LSU did it the right way.

 

[hawkeye54545]

Luckily for us, it appears it cycled through most of our basketball team as well.

 

[shank hawk]

Sometimes players actually get sick and actively spread viruses, something the corona test doesn’t really determine. But they still play (or at least they used to).


“We had so many players that had flu symptoms that we couldn't practice at all that week,'' Campbell says.

A week later, in Madison, Wis., the Badgers had nearly 40 players with flu-like symptoms, but they suited up on Saturday and defeated Fresno State in double overtime. Last weekend, two more players -- both freshmen likely to be redshirted -- experienced similar symptoms. The swimming and track teams have also been hit by the flu, says athletic director Barry Alvarez.

"When someone has the symptoms, we try to be very proactive,'' Alvarez says. "Get them fluids and isolate them, and try and get them rest. The doctors have said it is best way to treat it. The first week, we had so many [sick] that we gave everyone Tamiflu, a capsule a day. That helped us that week so we didn't have more kids [sick] the day of the game. "

Alvarez says players with high temperatures were kept in isolation.

Early in the week before the Fresno State game, he called school officials in California and alerted them to the situation and confirmed they'd still make the trek to Madison.


Dr. James Turner, the president of the American College Health Association and the director of health services at the University of Virginia. "Probably 99.9 percent or higher have a cough and a sore throat for three or four days, and then it goes away. However, there is a chance that someone who is at risk of complications could come in contact with the viruses. Among athletes, you have some who have asthma, maybe diabetes. They are at higher risk. But there are not dire consequences from someone inadvertently contracting this disease.

"I will say that it has taken on a life of its own, and perhaps been sensationalized to a degree. “

Fish: Catching football fever. Literally

Medical experts recommend isolation for at least 24 hours after the fever is gone. So why are schools letting players with flu-like symptoms suit up and knock heads?

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Forty-two players and staff with the Wisconsin football team have tested positive for COVID-19 as the Big Ten makes plans to get the season started.

Public Health Madison & Dane County says the 42 people tested positive since June when athletes and staff returned to campus. Twenty-nine of the positive tests were from Sept. 1 through Sept. 15.

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00:16 01:33



Health officials in Madison and Dane County are urging fans not to gather to watch football games when the Badgers begin their season in October.

“Of course it’s disappointing that something as well-loved as gathering to watch Badger football games can’t happen this year,” Janel Heinrich, director of Public Health Madison & Dane County, said in a statement. “But the reality is that it’s not possible to have a traditional football season without substantially increasing COVID-19 transmission. We value people’s health and lives over sports, and we hope that UW does as well.”

The Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors reversed an earlier decision to shut down all fall sports because of the coronavirus. The council voted unanimously to go ahead with the league’s 2020 football season beginning Oct. 23 or Oct. 24.
Forty-two players and staff with the Wisconsin football team have tested positive for COVID-19 as the Big Ten makes plans to get the season started.
Public Health Madison & Dane County says the 42 people tested positive since June when athletes and staff returned to campus. Twenty-nine of the positive tests were from Sept. 1 through Sept. 15.


“Of course it’s disappointing that something as well-loved as gathering to watch Badger football games can’t happen this year,” Janel Heinrich, director of Public Health Madison & Dane County, said in a statement. “But the reality is that it’s not possible to have a traditional football season without substantially increasing COVID-19 transmission. We value people’s health and lives over sports, and we hope that UW does as well.”

The Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors reversed an earlier decision to shut down all fall sports because of the coronavirus. The council voted unanimously to go ahead with the league’s 2020 football season beginning Oct. 23 or Oct. 24.

42 Wisconsin football players and staff members — 29 since Sept. 1 — test positive for COVID-19 as the Big Ten prepares for its season

Forty-two players and staff with the Wisconsin football team have tested positive for COVID-19 as the Big Ten makes plans to get the season started.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Guess they damn near have herd immunity now

 

[cigaretteman]

Guess they damn near have herd immunity now

At least herd mentality!

 

[WorldSeriesChamps2015]

That's why they shut down for a couple weeks.