NCAA Outlines Principles for Restarting Sports Amid Pandemic
May 2, 2020 12:46:30 GMT -8
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Post by beavershoopsfan on May 2, 2020 12:46:30 GMT -8
Planning is underway to prepare colleges for what it will take to make it happen. An excerpt of a USA Today article from May 1 is below with the link containing the entire article below the excerpt:
Key among the nine “core principles of resocialization of collegiate sport” is that universities should have plans for temperature checks, testing, isolating and contact tracing and acquiring adequate protective equipment for athletics health care providers.
“It is also important to take into consideration that there will not be a quick, single day of re-emergence into society,” NCAA chief medical officer Dr. Brian Hainline said. “We will re-emerge in a manner that recognizes COVID-19 will be around until there is an effective vaccine, treatment or both. That is why resocialization should be rolled out in a phased way that helps assure sustained low infection spread, as well as aids in the ability to quickly diagnose and isolate new cases.”
www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2020/05/01/ncaa-principles-restarting-sports-covid-19-coronavirus/3067789001/
Key among the nine “core principles of resocialization of collegiate sport” is that universities should have plans for temperature checks, testing, isolating and contact tracing and acquiring adequate protective equipment for athletics health care providers.
“It is also important to take into consideration that there will not be a quick, single day of re-emergence into society,” NCAA chief medical officer Dr. Brian Hainline said. “We will re-emerge in a manner that recognizes COVID-19 will be around until there is an effective vaccine, treatment or both. That is why resocialization should be rolled out in a phased way that helps assure sustained low infection spread, as well as aids in the ability to quickly diagnose and isolate new cases.”
www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2020/05/01/ncaa-principles-restarting-sports-covid-19-coronavirus/3067789001/