Many states around the country have now returned to play, with league ECNL, GA, and state league games starting last weekend and tournaments over the past month. States where games are being played aren’t limited to the more obvious red states like Florida, Texas and Georgia that have taken a relatively care free (or reckless) approach to the pandemic, but also Colorado, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, etc. Apart from Washington, Oregon and California it’s relatively difficult to find states that aren’t back to normal soccer, although there are a few others. Many of these states are not doing as well as Washington in terms of cases, hospitalizations or deaths, yet here we are.
Has anyone seen any report from anywhere in the world of any kid contracting or transmitting Covid at soccer training or during a soccer game? Given the number of places that are reopened, there should by now be significant numbers of soccer related cases if there was any material risk associated with youth outdoor activities like this. But there doesn’t seem to be anything apart from: (a) the mayor of Danbury, Connecticut says that families traveling to travel tournaments contributed to a recent spike there; and (b) Surf’s study, which found 0 cases contracted or transmitted during 6800+ training sessions at clubs in the San Diego area over the course of the summer. It sure seems like it would be safe to turn the reopening dial a bit more here, and that if not yet it will be if the trend of no soccer-related outbreaks around the country continues for another week or two.
Has anyone seen any report from anywhere in the world of any kid contracting or transmitting Covid at soccer training or during a soccer game? Given the number of places that are reopened, there should by now be significant numbers of soccer related cases if there was any material risk associated with youth outdoor activities like this. But there doesn’t seem to be anything apart from: (a) the mayor of Danbury, Connecticut says that families traveling to travel tournaments contributed to a recent spike there; and (b) Surf’s study, which found 0 cases contracted or transmitted during 6800+ training sessions at clubs in the San Diego area over the course of the summer. It sure seems like it would be safe to turn the reopening dial a bit more here, and that if not yet it will be if the trend of no soccer-related outbreaks around the country continues for another week or two.
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