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ACC schools bringing back some student/athletes June 1

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Guarantee Wake will be last as led by Hatch. Not saying it's right or wrong just convinced Wake will be last.
 
It's Winston-Salem...not Boston and the campus is not really in an urban setting. No way Wake is last to this party.
 
Section 8C of Governor Cooper's May 20, order allows professional and college athletes to train indoor facilities as long as the group does not exceed the indoor mass gathering limit of 10 (the outdoor gathering limit is 25).

Here is the link to the order: https://www.rrspin.com/images/EO141-Phase-2.pdf

Here is the text of Section 8C:
C. Training of Professional and Collegiate Athletes. Professional athletes and athletes
performing on an agreement with an educational institution to receive a scholarship or other
benefit may train within indoor fitness facilities that otherwise would be closed under
Subsection A above, provided they do not exceed the Mass Gathering limit.

So, any NC college can open it's fitness facilities and workout 10 scholarship athletes at a time indoors and 25 at a time outdoors.
 
Duke sent an email today saying they won’t make a decision about students being on campus for fall semester until late June. Didn’t sound like they would have athletes on campus for summer sessions.
 
Duke sent an email today saying they won’t make a decision about students being on campus for fall semester until late June. Didn’t sound like they would have athletes on campus for summer sessions.

Duke will be following NY and NJ reopening guidelines.
 
Think about this. It is much safer to bring the athletes to campus. Test them. Keep them distanced and monitored. Allow them to train in a controlled environment. Test them regularly. As opposed to risking training and other activities taking place in uncontrolled environments all over the country. Worth thinking about.
 
Fair point. Will the universities cover the cost of COVID-19 related illness and care?
 
I read something today that indicates the death rate from Covid in the US for people less than 29 years of ago is 3/1000ths of 1%. Who knows if it might even be lower for younger people being on campuses, rather than in the general population. But if you multiply this percentage times the undergraduate population at WFU of 5,000 you get .15 students. I wonder if incidence is significantly different than an expected death rate from other causes such as alcohol poisoning, car wrecks, cancer, etc. From reading the Wake press over the years, it seems like a Wake student passes every 3 or 4 years from some cause. The difference here of course is that Covid is highly contagious. If proper precautions are taken, it would seem that school should open in late August.
 
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Fair point. Will the universities cover the cost of COVID-19 related illness and care?

Don't know about that but in the info that Chapel Hill and State sent out about reopening Campus this fall both schools indicated that they would keep one dorm open as a place to move students who test positive for COVId and one dorm open as a place to move students who are exposed to COVID and need to self quarantine. That seems like something more than reasonable that all schools need to be doing.
 
Winston has the sixth highest growth rate of cases in the country right now. N Wilkesboro is first (thanks Tyson).

Might have something to do with all of the coronavirus parties happening in Winston.

A North Carolina nurse said she’s treating patients who have attended “coronavirus parties” in an attempt to catch the deadly bug and hopefully develop immunity.

“Over the last few days, we have heard from a lot of patients and the community that they’re unafraid of getting the virus,” Yolanda Enrich, a nurse practitioner at Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center, told an NBC affiliate.

“People are actually out and about trying to get the virus, so attending gatherings, parties trying to maximize their chances of exposure.”




https://nypost.com/2020/05/20/nurse-says-patients-attend-coronavirus-parties-to-get-sick/
 
Might have something to do with all of the coronavirus parties happening in Winston.

A North Carolina nurse said she’s treating patients who have attended “coronavirus parties” in an attempt to catch the deadly bug and hopefully develop immunity.

“Over the last few days, we have heard from a lot of patients and the community that they’re unafraid of getting the virus,” Yolanda Enrich, a nurse practitioner at Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center, told an NBC affiliate.

“People are actually out and about trying to get the virus, so attending gatherings, parties trying to maximize their chances of exposure.”




https://nypost.com/2020/05/20/nurse-says-patients-attend-coronavirus-parties-to-get-sick/

This sort of activity used to happen with mumps, measles and chicken pox back in the pre vaccine days. Children would be deliberately exposed so they would be sick at a "convenient" time for the mother. Or so they would have had the disease before starting school.
 
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