One point that may or may not be significant. While local health departments are typically referred to as County (or City) health departments, they are actually state employees, not County (or City) employees. They work at the local level and typically have close relationships with local officials. But they always have closer relationships with the state officials for whom they work.
CDC defined close contact,as I understand it, isnât mask dependent, meaning it doesnât matter. Six feet is six feet, mask or not. The only question might be the hope for a false positive, that the player tests negative subsequently. I would imagine the contact tracing analysis is back.
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Or they have players identified as clear of contact tracing, but they are waiting on another day of negative testing before formally indicating they can field a team.
Got it. Thanks for clarification.
I just always caution against assumptions that anything they depends on analyzing data âshould be done by nowâ. In some instances totally, but there can always be factors folks arenât aware of that go into analyzing that stuff. Presumably the system is pretty user friendly and should be pretty straightforward. Just without seeing the back end itâs hard to be sure sometimes.
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I wouldnât be surprised if they waited until 10:59 tomorrow to give their word to the NCAA
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Iâm not sure I agree, depending on which 5 we have. I mean, if we have Caffaro, Shedrick, Abdur-Rahim, Stattmann and McCorkle and we get a 4 seed playing a 13, Lunardi currently has UNCG, Liberty, Western Kentucky and UCSB on the 13 line.
I would take our talent with a week of intense coaching over any of them.
Now if the lineup is Coleman, Nixon, Poindexter, Katstra and one of the above 5, I donât like our chances so much.
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And Iâm no expert. Iâve just tried to read the CDC definitions and NCAA guidelines. You are right things are never quite as simple as we outsiders think they should be.
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Just need five healthy bodies by 11:00 tomorrow to get into the field, but then can add additional guys to the roster with a week of negative tests, right?
We keep guys pretty well spaced on the bench, and obviously the dog pile wasnât 15 minutes longâŚ
I dunno, seems possible?
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Hypothetical - If you were Bill Self and were offered a chance to submit fraudulent covid tests as the only way to get into the tournament, would you do so?
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How dare you make me imagine Iâm Bill Self? No thank you.
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Why would they have to wear masks then?
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Why?
Alright, I should stop posting every five minutes like a crazy person and go do something productive for a little while. For now, all Iâll say is I canât wait till Shedrick tosses the ball out to Jabri who hits the title winning buzzer beater over Suggs and Gonzaga. Greatest sports story of all time coming to you soon!
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Yeah I donât know. Why 15 minutes? That was based on a corrections officer contracting covid ostensibly from an inmate while only being around him 17 minutes total during a 24-hour shift. It is all a bit arbitrary. I just saw this on the CDC website;
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I see two answers to that, one good and one bad.
The good answer is that theyâve found the 5 but need to wait for test results (hoping for negative) before submitting them.
The bad, and much more likely, answer is that there arenât 5 guys on the roster who clearly qualify. Bennett and the AD department is now feverishly going through every NCAA and CDC directive looking for loopholes and exemptions through which they can slip individual players. They are hopeful, but perhaps not confident, that they can slip through 5 players on technicalities.
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Yeah and I suspect this has all been done by now and Rothsteinâs latest tweet is indication that itâs all good. Hope thatâs the case anyway.
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Source: The NCAA Tournament Selection Committee went through the bracket today and included both Kansas and Virginia without hesitation. Plans are moving forward for both to be playing next week.
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I vaguely remember back when this happened earlier that Albemare County had a much stricter protocol than the ACC
I prefer this interpretation to mine.
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