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Post by sidelinesdad on Aug 16, 2020 12:56:30 GMT -5
I want to give Bogan credit for posting this in another thread and think this is important enough to have it’s own post. surfcupsports.com/2020/08/14/youth-sports-covid-safety-whitepaper/DEL MAR, CA, August 14, 2020 – Today Surf Cup Sports is announcing the results of an eight-week study analyzing the safety of outdoor youth soccer in San Diego County. The county’s top youth soccer clubs, led by Surf Cup Sports, have taken the lead on studying the impact of COVID-19 transmission within outdoor youth sports – specifically soccer. 6,560 players and 263 coaches from 6 soccer clubs located across San Diego County, from Oceanside to Chula Vista, participated in the study. Over the course of eight weeks 143,000 soccer sessions were analyzed and only 15 (.01%) confirmed cases were found. For each of the identified cases, all were found to have been transmitted outside of the soccer sessions. Read the rest of the article for more details. |
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Post by mistergrinch on Aug 16, 2020 14:31:54 GMT -5
Woot! I'll take this as a positive.
Now.. if we can just work around traveling from GA (a hot spot currently) to .. say.. FL (also a hot spot). It seems like the soccer itself is the least of the issues.
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Post by footyfan on Aug 17, 2020 10:25:12 GMT -5
What was the profession of the people who performed the study?
Keep wearing masks and social distancing. Numbers definitely appear to be getting better.
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Post by mistergrinch on Aug 17, 2020 14:35:31 GMT -5
What was the profession of the people who performed the study? Keep wearing masks and social distancing. Numbers definitely appear to be getting better. Interesting - I went back and looked, and it just says 'we' a lot. Doesn't have any authors listed. |
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Post by bogan on Aug 17, 2020 14:54:13 GMT -5
What was the profession of the people who performed the study? Keep wearing masks and social distancing. Numbers definitely appear to be getting better. Interesting - I went back and looked, and it just says 'we' a lot. Doesn't have any authors listed. The folks at Surf Cup Sports-I believe they host the Man City Cup. ...why I noted in my post that since it was written by someone with “skin in the game” I was a bit skeptical. |
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Post by footyfan on Aug 17, 2020 14:57:17 GMT -5
Interesting - I went back and looked, and it just says 'we' a lot. Doesn't have any authors listed. The folks at Surf Cup Sports-I believe they host the Man City Cup. ...why I noted in my post that since it was written by someone with “skin in the game” I was a bit skeptical. I was going to say I think the people who wrote it are the coaches and company administrators for Surf, which I believe makes their money from their tournament fees and franchise fees for their soccer clubs. |
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Post by sidelinesdad on Aug 17, 2020 17:04:57 GMT -5
They published a study with over 6000 players and almost 300 coaches across 6 clubs so I’m guessing if the results were wrong there would have been some pretty easy noise from people involved. Yes take with a grain of salt if you want but also realize the volume tested and lack of issues as meaningful. Would just take one parent who felt their kid got COVID from practicing to jump up speak up and invalidate the results.
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Post by mistergrinch on Aug 17, 2020 17:53:42 GMT -5
They published a study with over 6000 players and almost 300 coaches across 6 clubs so I’m guessing if the results were wrong there would have been some pretty easy noise from people involved. Yes take with a grain of salt if you want but also realize the volume tested and lack of issues as meaningful. Would just take one parent who felt their kid got COVID from practicing to jump up speak up and invalidate the results. Not saying it wasn't a good study.. but usually you put a name to it. |
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Post by footyfan on Aug 17, 2020 18:02:15 GMT -5
I assume the reason why they cite "training data" and not actual "testing data" is because they took the amount of kids training and asked them at training if they had covid and did some division. Or something goofy like that. There is no way without test and trace that they can say whether or not the kids who got COVID got it at soccer training.
Wear your masks, wash your hands & keep your distance so the children can keep playing.
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Post by sidelinesdad on Aug 17, 2020 20:08:30 GMT -5
“ 6,560 players and 263 coaches from 6 soccer clubs located across San Diego County, from Oceanside to Chula Vista, participated in the study. Over the course of eight weeks 143,000 soccer sessions were analyzed and only 15 (.01%) confirmed cases were found. For each of the identified cases, all were found to have been transmitted outside of the soccer sessions.”
This would imply to me that there were no transmissions of cases from one player to another.
Regardless it would be a good indication that outdoor sports training can be done safely and far outweighs the implications of shutting it down. Clubs and players stay smart and lets keep the kids active and happy.
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Post by bogan on Aug 17, 2020 20:19:03 GMT -5
Sad that we have to remind people to wash their hands.
Wearing the mask 😷 does make me feel a little like Batman...
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Post by mistergrinch on Aug 17, 2020 21:33:19 GMT -5
“ 6,560 players and 263 coaches from 6 soccer clubs located across San Diego County, from Oceanside to Chula Vista, participated in the study. Over the course of eight weeks 143,000 soccer sessions were analyzed and only 15 (.01%) confirmed cases were found. For each of the identified cases, all were found to have been transmitted outside of the soccer sessions.” This would imply to me that there were no transmissions of cases from one player to another. Regardless it would be a good indication that outdoor sports training can be done safely and far outweighs the implications of shutting it down. Clubs and players stay smart and lets keep the kids active and happy. Our pediatrician said just that a while ago.. shes pretty conservative, but said that she felt like soccer was low risk. |
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Post by oraclesfriend on Aug 18, 2020 7:16:35 GMT -5
“ 6,560 players and 263 coaches from 6 soccer clubs located across San Diego County, from Oceanside to Chula Vista, participated in the study. Over the course of eight weeks 143,000 soccer sessions were analyzed and only 15 (.01%) confirmed cases were found. For each of the identified cases, all were found to have been transmitted outside of the soccer sessions.” This would imply to me that there were no transmissions of cases from one player to another. Regardless it would be a good indication that outdoor sports training can be done safely and far outweighs the implications of shutting it down. Clubs and players stay smart and lets keep the kids active and happy. Outdoor soccer appears to be low risk. I do not think that football is low risk because the linemen are in each other's faces for the whole game. Also cross country would need to be staggered starts to be low risk. The first mile everyone is all bunched up and breathing heavily all over each other. Considering a lot of meets have chips in the bibs it would not be hard to have corrals like the big marathons and half marathons do and stagger the starts. I saw somewhere on CHOA a list of the risks of the sports. Soccer was in medium risk. |
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Post by mistergrinch on Aug 18, 2020 7:36:36 GMT -5
“ 6,560 players and 263 coaches from 6 soccer clubs located across San Diego County, from Oceanside to Chula Vista, participated in the study. Over the course of eight weeks 143,000 soccer sessions were analyzed and only 15 (.01%) confirmed cases were found. For each of the identified cases, all were found to have been transmitted outside of the soccer sessions.” This would imply to me that there were no transmissions of cases from one player to another. Regardless it would be a good indication that outdoor sports training can be done safely and far outweighs the implications of shutting it down. Clubs and players stay smart and lets keep the kids active and happy. Outdoor soccer appears to be low risk. I do not think that football is low risk because the linemen are in each other's faces for the whole game. Also cross country would need to be staggered starts to be low risk. The first mile everyone is all bunched up and breathing heavily all over each other. Considering a lot of meets have chips in the bibs it would not be hard to have corrals like the big marathons and half marathons do and stagger the starts. I saw somewhere on CHOA a list of the risks of the sports. Soccer was in medium risk. Though that totally changes the sport for cross country. A lot of tbe strategy is managing the crowd and picking spots to pass on narrow trails. It could be done, but it's not quite the same. |
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Post by bogan on Aug 21, 2020 11:05:28 GMT -5
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Post by rifle on Aug 21, 2020 17:54:21 GMT -5
Imagine if you could get them to wash their hands. |
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Post by bogan on Aug 21, 2020 17:56:31 GMT -5
Imagine if you could get them to wash their hands. ...and stop eating boogers... (you know there’s one kid in every class)🤮 |
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