This fall’s school football season has the high point in the debate about managing the coronavirus pandemic in the United States.
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But the primary meetings have already pushed the season back to spring, creating uncertainty and the out-of-control nature of the virus, and some epidemiologists fear the president will politicize a factor that will be left to medical experts.
Fractured control of the pandemic through school football has reflected in many tactics the broader reaction in the United States.Trump has joined a chorus of coaches and players who insist that the virus poses a low threat to academics compared to alternatives, while medical experts warn that a close contact game like football can be a recipe for new epidemics.
“There is no national leadership,” said Lawrence Gostin, a professor of global fitness at Georgetown University.”We have the most productive public fitness company in the world.The CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] says that school and professional football – given the enormous risks, given the developing epidemic – that postpone the season.”
“But because of the embedded policy at the CDC, we’re not getting this independent national opinion,” Gostin added.”As a result, you have a conference, the game takes its own resolution and the audience is confused.”
The Big Ten and Pac-12 meetings have already postponed their fall sports seasons, adding football, in the spring, and the NCAA has announced that there will be no fall championships this year.
However, the three Power Five meetings, the Southeastern Conference (SEC), Big 12 and Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), increase hopes for a football season in the fall.
Trump this week immersed himself in the discussion, complicating the decision-making procedure and the discussion around him.
The president is passionate about school football. He attended the annual Army and Navy games and last year attended the highly anticipated contest between the University of Alabama and Louisiana State University (LSU) as the national championship game between LSU and Clemson University.
“We need to see football at school,” Trump said Wednesday on one occasion about the reopening of schools.”And I don’t know what they do with football in high school, but I think it’s the same kind of idea process.that happens. And I think that’s going to happen. To a large extent, it’s going to happen.”
The president raised the factor later that day at a press conference, had spoken to Clemson’s quarterback Trevor Lawrence and LSU coach Ed Orgeron, among others.
“I’ve talked to some of the wonderful football players, school players,” Trump said.”Trevor and many wonderful players called. Coach called. Coach O” Many other people I’ve talked to.Athletes, leaders, they need to play football.Let them play. Let them play.”
Some Republicans and management officers from a normal school football season may simply gain political advantages from Trump because it would reflect a return to normal during the pandemic.
But the president’s approval rate on the coronavirus has declined month by month since he saw an initial buildup in March and April, and a recent vote shows that only a third of Americans accept as true with the data it provides about the coronavirus.
The president said this week in an interview with Clay Travis that “you’re not going to see other people die” if school football progresses, but several players reported having disorders at the center and other serious headaches of the virus, and experts noted that other people’s youth are not immune to the disease.
The game is deeply rooted in Texas, Ohio, Georgia, Michigan and other parts of the country that will play a key role in determining the final results of the November election.University cities, adding Athens, Georgia; South Bend, Indiana; and State College, Pennsylvania, have already been greatly affected by the pandemic and depend on the revenue generated each year during the football season.
Former Republican National Committee spokesman Doug Heye argued that if football is canceled, it may also be a moment of clarity for some electorates about how Trump treated the pandemic, saying that “if they can’t move on to football games now,” possibly at the last start to blame the president for not involving the virus.
Steve Cortes, an adviser to Trump’s crusade, presented the opposing argument in a this week’s editorial, insisting that pushing for a season is a winning consultation for the president.
“In fact, once sec and ACC schools, basically in the south of the country, have a safe and fun football season, I hope Donald Trump rightly wins the elections of many bitterly disappointed football enthusiasts in the Upper Midwest,” he wrote.
Public fitness experts expressed confusion about how the meetings here reached other conclusions about protecting a fall season by reviewing the same knowledge about the virus. A main argument put forward through some players and coaches is that it would be safer for athletes to stay on campus where they have to perform the usual tests, equipment facilities and university medical staff.
Zachary Binney, an epidemiologist at Oxford College, Emory University, said athletes are likely safer at home than playing this fall due to the close-contact nature of the sport and the lack of a centralized bubble to quarantine the season. train, live and compete in a position so that they do not interact with potentially infectious individuals.
But if schools resume in-person training, the football game may not be much more complicated than living, reading and socializing on campus, he said.
“I think the genuine thing is, is it too dangerous to have academics on a college campus?” said Binney.
Uncertainty around the time of autumn college sports has its origins in the country’s difficulty in controlling the pandemic.The United States has more than five million reported cases of COVID-19, so far the largest number in any country in the world, and more than 167,000 have died of the virus in the United States.Cases continue in some parts of the country even when their outbreaks are under control.
“Every step we take to get back to normal carries dangers and benefits.Anything we do that increases contacts and opportunities for the spread of the virus, such as school football, makes us able to do anything else safely,” Binney said.Are you willing to give up if you want to have football at school?Because there are no shortcuts here. We want to do a bigger task as a country by embracing it.”
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