Dr. Jen Ashton on what you need to know about possible coronavirus cardiac complications.The Associated Press
Still, Porter wonders if it will be enough to stave off an outbreak and whether his farming community 40 miles outside Austin will see football on Friday nights.Just like big-time college football, American high school sports is starkly divided on whether to play this fall. Many teams are already practicing. Utah played its first games this week; at one of them, Davis High coach Mitch Arquette told his players to seize the moment before a 24-20 win over Herriman.
Texas, which has by far the most high school football players in the nation with about 170,000, will play despite a COVID-19 death toll approaching 10,000 and health experts predicting a rise in new cases as schools open their classroms. The Lone Star State will stagger its season with small schools kicking off in late August and the big schools in late September.
“We certainly know the majority of kids don't develop any severe symptoms from COVID, but they absolutely can. They're susceptible to a more significant disease course, but at this juncture it's less often than the older population,” said Briskin, who also serves on the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Sports Medicine and Fitness.
Briskin doesn't see any high schools likely to match that sort of concentrated testing and medical care. High school officials across the country have generally not required testing because of cost and availability, and timely access to a cardiologist can be a problem in both rural and urban areas.
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This should not be a tough choice. Lives or sports? ... should be an easy decision.
It's a 'tough choice'? Sports or safety during a pandemic? Not a tough choice.
Liberals would say there is no choice. They want to oppress you
How do you play a HS season when you aren't even playing in college? This makes NO sense to me.
If you live in a district where you're going to make your kids go to school then they should be allowed to play sports. If you can opt out of school to do online school then you can't justify playing sports. That should be the determinant.
0 % CFR UNDER 18 IS NOT A HARD CHOICE
There shouldn't be a CHOICE dollars over life .. life..life.....
In 1998, Duke's football team suffered food poisoning and infected FSU team with the virus, via blood, sweat and vomit. I suspect that a highly contagious respiratory virus is going be an even bigger football fan, than that foodborne one.
I don't think so.
'How many people above the usual allotment shall be sacrificed to our angry pigskin God?'
In what way is this a 'tough' decision?
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