The University of Houston announced on Friday that it was suspending in-person voluntary workouts for student-athletes “out of an abundance of caution” after 6 tested positive for COVID-19 this week. All 6 who tested positive were symptomatic.
While Houston is not the first school to have positive tests since the NCAA allowed voluntary in-person workouts to resume on June 1, the on campus outbreak comes in the context of a growing number of cases in the area.
According to New York Times data, Harris County, the 3rd-most populous county in the United States, has averaged 323 new daily coronavirus infections. That’s up about 50% from two weeks ago, though it’s still below the rate of New York City, the country’s hardest-hit area, which is averaging 435 daily new cases in spite of a dramatic slowing of spread there.
The Texas Medical Center in Houston, the largest medical complex in the world, is reporting a 20% increase in ICU beds occupied by coronavirus patients. The center’s hospitals have seen new records for COVID-19 hospitalizations in 4 of the last 5 days.
At least 20 states have seen rises in coronavirus cases over the last month. The spike in Houston has led to local officials announcing that they were weighing options for reinstating a stay-at-home order, even as most of the country has lifted the heaviest such orders.
The University of Houston is the first school to suspend athletic activities after restarting them. Football, men’s basketball, and women’s basketball teams were the first allowed back on campus.
Under NCAA rules, current allowed in-person activities are general conditioning activities without coaches. There are exceptions for swimming & diving coaches and strength coaches, who are allowed to supervise for safety purposes, but are not supposed to be actively coaching.
Unlike many schools, the University of Houston did not test student-athletes upon their return to campus. In wake of the outbreak on campus, however, the school says that it is “adapting its protocols to include repetitive COVID-19 testing as a component of any resumption of workouts on campus.”
The University of Houston women’s swimming & diving team has won 4 straight American Athletic Conference championships and had 5 swimmers qualified for the 2020 NCAA Championship meet before it was cancelled.
According to Houston Chronicle reported Joseph Duarte, the following schools have reported COVID-19 positive tests since reopening their campuses to student-athletes:
- Auburn
- Alabama
- Arkansas State
- Boise State
- Florida State
- Houston
- Iowa
- Marshall
- Mississippi
- Oklahoma State
- Texas
- Texas Tech
- UCF
Texas Governor Greg Abbott had a call with the athletics directors of FBS schools in the state this week, where he said that he did intend to allow spectators at college football games in the fall, but that he didn’t anticipate allowing greater than 50% capacity. The state is home to 3 of the 9 largest college football stadiums in the country: Kyle Field at Texas A&M (102,733); the Cotton Bowl in Dallas (96,009); and Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium at Texas (95,594).
While most schools are focusing on a return to campus for fall sports and profitable sports (like basketball), a handful of schools do have swimming programs returning to campus for voluntary workouts. That includes Louisville, Texas A&M, and Delaware.
Monday coronavirus report: 449,488 tests, just 4.1% positive, near the lowest positive rate ever, just 375 total deaths, second lowest day since March 26th, meaning 7200 people died today in America of something other than coronavirus. Pack the football stadiums, grind on the dance floor at the packed club with that good looking girl or boy and do what you do!
Honestly people who go on and on about how serious this is drive me absolutely CRAZY. We need to reopen gradually, not just saying “ok everything is open again.” And things happen…don’t just expect everything to be OK because there are serious rules in effect. Just chill, and don’t hate on anyone for doing what they choose…because there are things more important than the coronavirus. (Disclaimer: I think we should reopen gradually and adapt to the situation, instead of just acting like it doesn’t exist. Don’t be too nervous but take all necessary measures.)
Sunday coronavirus update: fewest deaths, just 358 in the entire country, since March 26th, just a 4.4% positive test case rate on 485,082 total tests. Worth noting, roughly 7200 people died in the United States today of something other than the coronavirus. That means 95% of all deaths occurring in the country were from something other than the coronavirus. Where is the uproar and craziness
over that? Also worth noting: we have not seen a dramatic increase in new cases, at least so far, since the protests began. This bodes well for crowds at outdoor sporting events like soccer, baseball and football sooner rather than later. Live your life, do what you do and ignore the coronabros!
Dozens of schools handled the return of college athletes to campus with responsible plans in place and it receives almost no news coverage. (Positive tests are inevitable, by the way). One school has an issue and coronabros scream “CANCEL EVERYTHING!”
We are experiencing the death of math and critical
Thinking
Here is a math for you: 112,000. How many more need to die before it is enough? Oh, wait, you do not worry about dead because half of them are minorities and quarter are in nursing homes, and we can do without both of those groups, right? How many dead will make for you to say: this is really not like a flu?
Died With or of covid? That’s a big difference.
How many died of medical malpractice? (88% who went on vents in NY died)
You don’t care about the math. You care about blaming 112,000 on Trump or whomever.
But yeah, call me a racist or facist or whatever you’re trying to do.
Wait a second.
Let’s say your point is correct about the ventilators. We have a completely new virus, that we have no answer for, and you expected every doctor to make the perfect decision?
Each hospital was essentially learning new things, trying new things every day. You can’t say something is medical malpractice when there was no prior situation to base it off of. That’s you continuing to push an agenda you want to push and acting as if every doctor should have the answer for things nobody has ever seen.
You’re accepting all these Covid deaths as it being “okay” and pushing to reopen AND you’re blaming doctors for essentially killing patients. Disgusting.
The deaths are not okay. The politicization of them deaths is even worse.
The willful medical malpractice encouraged by the governor of New York (“we need 40,000 ventilators).
Not the doctors fault, the politicians fault. But he does speak well on TV.
Thanks for refuting my argument with an ad hominem attack (disgusting, your words, not mine). I do have an agenda and passion for it. These lockdowns are senseless and unnecessary.
So if you were told by multiple professionals, that you hired, that your city needed “X” amount of ventilators you wouldn’t do it? Just for the sake of saying no?
I think you’re continuing to forget that this way new for everyone. You’re just pushing an agenda that makes no sense. Unless you could see the future, everyone would be listening to the professionals. Your hindsight mindset is strong here
Meh. If we can’t admit mistakes were made, we can’t move forward. Truth will helpfully come out in time.
I recommended a good book for PsychoDad above, if you’re interested.
My goal is to get past “this is the deadliest thing ever” and for people to see how easily data was manipulated to control the population.
If you don’t agree, that’s your prerogative. But don’t call me disgusting or say that I like people dying. That’s extremely disingenuous.
More data suppression for you to explore:
https://ohiostatehousenews.com/2020/05/governor-dewine-suppresses-data-disproving-covid-19-policies/
Always gather more info.
PSYCHODAD, nearly 7,000 people died of something other than the coronavirus in America today and almost no one noticed. Just 751 people died with the coronavirus. Why are you being a pawn of the media?
On May 31 , 18 ppl were shot dead in Chicago . 40 that week. Dispatch : ‘ He sustained injuries to w h at part of the body?’ Cop : ” He’s got about 34 holes in him “.
Just an FYI to anyone who cares. Currently there is another protest in downtown Houston. I am guessing they didn’t get the memo, maybe they just don’t care, or maybe they have been told their their opinion matters so much that consequences be damned.
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2020/06/14/dozens-gather-in-downtown-houston-for-protest-over-death-of-george-floyd/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=snd&utm_content=kprc2
Shocking that a deep red republican state that is extremely anti-science would open early without a plan and be subject to a second wave almost immediately…
Cite your evidence for “anti science”. Is New York, with the most deaths, “pro science”?
Wow. Equating voting a certain way politically equates to being anti-science. How very biased and judgmental of you. I vote conservative and work at at a large, tier 1 university in Texas. I have a doctorate. I’m a scientist and work with scientists every day. I find that sometimes scientists are correct and sometimes not correct. I know smart scientist that vote “red” and not as smart vote “blue”. (Your descriptor.). Let’s stop the broad brush stroke generalities. It should be beneath someone who is as enlightened as you are.
Texas Swim Dad. I’ve seen this sentiment all too often from the “tolerant” left. They’ve essentially weaponized “Science” to serve a political agenda.
I say this not as a conservative or a liberal but as a truth seeker. Thank you for calling them on it.
that’s because you can’t have it both ways. You can’t support an anti-science agenda and say that you are not anti science. The “red” party silences and punishes scientists for stating facts, they lie and cheat about covid numbers, fire people who refuse to lie, deny climate change, destroy the environment, ban words from papers that imply what we know for a fact. In fact, the president is proudly anti-science, I can quote him all day all night. I think he said Hydroxychloroquine and injecting Lysol are good for you. In an ideal world you would want to be pro-science and vote for your favorite party, today, if you vote red, you are supporting the war on science and facts.
The brainwashing is now complete Sam. Well done! Off to Jonestown me tomorrow.
Adios, TruthSeeker. It’s been nice.
That recent article in Lancet criticising Hydrochloroquine was retracted . It was a political hit job not a scientific study .
If ppl want to take the drug , why not offer it ( if supplies to current malaria , rheumatism & Lupus users are secure ).
Because it’s not without risks (look up the frickin FDA warning label, FFS), and some moron of a doctor would have to actually prescribe it with zero proven benefits. It’s that pesky Hippocratic Oath that keeps getting in the way of things.
Ol Longhorn. Are you aware HCQ is being used in most other areas of the world? Are you also aware that American doctors and physicians sued the FDA for blocking their access to it during the pandemic?
Or that just doesn’t fit your narrative? Your ignorance is stunning.
Every drug has risks . In Oz It was already available over the counter on long term scripts or pharmacist discretion . Frontline health workers were already being prescribed in trials .
I once had a major drug & procedure t h at was not FDA approved , I did fine .My doc looked at the use at St Guys & Bartholomews in London & said ‘ let’s us go for it ‘ .Today it is mainstream reserve therapy , one which saved Rikako Ikee’s life.
Today report from Texas:
https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2020/texas-coronavirus-cases-map/
Hospitalizations are record high, infection rate increasing steadily. Increased death counts will follow in 7-20 days, unless somehow virus becomes less deadly in Texas heat. I would not count on that, based on current reports.
About masks… Went to Academy yesterday (sports goods store), only 2 oof 10 have masks with some severaly obese people happily walking around without masks. In HEB it is about 3 out of 10. Very very rare to see a white person under 60 wearing a mask.
It is not easy to catch this virus if we wear mask, distance and stay outdoor. People are just too ignorant and too stupid to… Read more »
Texas sounds dangerous. Meanwhile, the swedes, who are being described as some sort of disaster are having a VERY mild year for all cause deaths (3rd lowest in 20 years)
You do realize that the Swedish model is being viewed as a mistake —- wait for it — by the Swedish government.
He does know it because you’ve pointed it out to him before. He just refuses to acknowledge it because for all his railing about chosen “narratives” he doesn’t want to adjust his…wait for it…”narrative”
No, the Swedes like their policy.
The media doesn’t and they spin quotes to make it sound like they don’t.
We will never see eye to eye as I don’t read the same news stories as you.
You prefer spin.
Please HISWIMCOACH, introduce us to your totally spin-free, totally valid, totally neutral news source that shows that the Swedes are loving their coronavirus response.
Here’s a pretty good answer on this. The Conversation, which has been rated as “Least biased” by mediabiasfactcheck.com, did a survey of about 1,600 Swedes. They found that the group was pretty split. 51% thought the response was good enough, 31% thought it was not good enough, 18% were neutral.
Ironically, the older Swedes, more at risk to die, were more likely to say that they thought the response was forceful enough. I don’t know enough about Swedish culture to guess as to why that might be.
https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-survey-reveals-what-swedish-people-really-think-of-countrys-relaxed-approach-137275
The irony is that in Sweden, the far-right leaders are being hyper critical of the current politically-left government for not responding quickly enough or strongly enough,… Read more »
On Wednesday afternoon, he (Anders Tegnell) clarified that the agency was still confident in its strategy, but was constantly receiving new information about the virus and evaluating the methods used.
“It has spread in the news that I, and we at [the Public Health Agency] believe the strategy we used was wrong and should be changed in a drastic way. That is not at all the case. We still believe that the strategy is good, but there are always improvements, you can always make it better,” he clarified.
https://www.thelocal.se/20200603/swedens-anders-tegnell-questioned-over-strategy-and-errors
Wait wait wait. Your evidence that “Swedes like the response” is that “politicians believe they did the right thing”? Gretchen Weimer believes she’s doing the right thing in Michigan, too, and she’s doing the opposite thing.
Bruh. Come on. You can believe what you want to believe, but don’t misrepresent like that. Your opinions usually seem better supported than that. This makes me question most of what you’ve said.
Here is what I replied to:
“You do realize that the Swedish model is being viewed as a mistake —- wait for it — by the Swedish government.”
I gave a quote from a government official and provided the source.
I posted this 5 times for you but you refuse to reason (as of today):
Sweden:
50,000 infected
4,874 dead
Szech Republic (with strict distancing and isolation policies)
10,000 infected
328 dead
Same polulation of 9M.
Both expect same % negative economic output. So, $4,500 died in Sweden for nothing. No benefits Sweden can show. In addition, Swedish are banned visiting Denmark and Norvey because they are “too infected.” They must love it, as you say, especially relatives of 4,800 dead people.
I’ll give you one more chance to
Expand your worldview:
https://www.amazon.com/Unreported-Truths-about-COVID-19-Lockdowns/dp/1953039014
Buy it, see if your thinking changes. Or just keep reading the NYT.
Czechs all received anti TB innoculation till 2012. All the Eastern Bloc has low numbers . It has not made the western news because Stalin policy but authorities have noticed . Thus Health workers are now being injected with this cheap vaccine in Australia. It was also compulsory f o r visitors t0 the USSR . ( Bernie & DJT are good ).
As dangerous as this is why are you out running around amoung all these reckless carriers of covid?
But some say the Italian doctors’ claims are plausible — if not proven. “Every time a virus passes from one person to another, it goes through mutations,” says Lee Riley, MD, a professor and chair of the division of infectious disease and vaccinology at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. “Over time these mutations can accumulate, and the virulence of the virus can ultimately lessen.”
UC-Berkeley’s Riley says that his belief that Covid-19 could be weakening is not one his colleagues share. “I don’t know of other experts who think the way I do, and I could be totally off the mark,” he allows. “But I look at real-world data instead of predictive models to come up… Read more »
You are aware that models are based off of current statistics right? So the guy saying he looks at real-world data and not models is doing the same thing all the other doctors are doing.
The models have been wrong for months starting with a 2.2 million prediction of Death and they aren’t entirely based on real world data, they actually try to extrapolate and predict based off sample data.
do you understand the meaning of real world data?
Hey, what happened to you blowing the horn for Sweden?
Still am. The swedes, who are being described as some sort of disaster are having a VERY mild year for all cause deaths (3rd lowest in 20 years).
Do you need me to translate that for you or you understand it? It seems most people don’t.