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| Two more PGA Tour players withdrew from the Travelers Championship Friday following a positive coronavirus test. Denny McCarthy, 27, withdrew after testing positive. He was schedule to tee of his afternoon with Bud Cauley, who tested negative but still withdrew, and Matt Walace, who continued to play. ... McCarthy and Cauley’s withdrawals follows Cameron Champ, who tested positive and withdrew Tuesday before the tournament began. Graeme McDowell withdrew after his caddie tested positive before traveling to Connecticut. Brooks Koepka also withdrew after his caddie tested positive and his brother Chase Koepka did the same after playing a practice round with his brother and McDowell. Webb Simpson withdrew as a precaution. |
Brooks koepka when he is playing gets a house and basically hunkers down with only the people close to him so that is why he withdrww along with his brother..
Webb Simpson was precautionary..
player today tested positive so he withdrww and the guy who plyed with him on thuraday withdrew out of caution
If they are being tested you are more than likely going to catch it befoee that person can spread it..
Will there be positive tests? abaolutely but if 1 positive test shuts a league down then there is no reason to even bother...
Adam Silver just said what are we supposed to do just sit out?
If I get exposed to someone who is infected, will I get infected?
If I get infected, will I get sick?
If I get sick will I die?
These are not impossible questions to answer. We need to track a lot of people over time, test them repeatedly and monitor their health. As that has not been done, epidemiologists are left to look at the data they do have and reach the best conclusions possible.
And the conclusions are all over the map. If you look at number of deaths as a fraction of the number of positive tests, you will conclude that mortality is 5-6% (I have seen researchers reporting that estimate in their presentations). I looked at deaths and estimates of population infection and came up with a mortality of 1%. Some researchers at Penn State ran some numbers and decided the real infection rate was 80 times greater than reported. If they are right about that, then COVID is only a little worse than the flu, in terms of the danger it poses.
I am particularly frustrated by the "spikes in new cases" stories. If the tests being reported are antibody tests, then we are doing fine and COVID is moving through the population with minimal impact. If the tests are live virus tests, then a train is coming down the tracks and we are tied to the tracks. At this stage of the pandemic, we should mainly be looking at live virus tests. Instead, we get "tests" reported with no further information. In New Jersey, we used to report all tests, now we only report live virus tests.
You apply the same precautions golfers are taking to a team sport, and it's pretty easy to see how one sick player can take a team out of rotation for a few weeks.
If an activity cannot be attended or completed without wearing a mask and without distancing, it just seems like it's not in the cards to go forward this year.
We're seeing it down here in Texas. Lots of well intentioned people want things to get back to normal, but it's seemingly pretty impractical to do so right now.
Antarctica! Only place that’s virus free.
That would be must-see tv.
Brooks koepka when he is playing gets a house and basically hunkers down with only the people close to him so that is why he withdrww along with his brother..
Webb Simpson was precautionary..
player today tested positive so he withdrww and the guy who plyed with him on thuraday withdrew out of caution
All due respect but you have no idea where they got it, no one does.
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the caddies got it at a wake..
Brooks koepka when he is playing gets a house and basically hunkers down with only the people close to him so that is why he withdrww along with his brother..
Webb Simpson was precautionary..
player today tested positive so he withdrww and the guy who plyed with him on thuraday withdrew out of caution
All due respect but you have no idea where they got it, no one does.
going by what they said on the telecast about the caddies
I think we'll also get used to seeing a lot of games postponed or cancelled in team sports. The schedules will be pretty ragged. It'll be weird but there will be games to watch... for a while.
I think we'll also get used to seeing a lot of games postponed or cancelled in team sports. The schedules will be pretty ragged. It'll be weird but there will be games to watch... for a while.
Great observation — sports will have to ride the same ebbs and flows open society will until there is treatment or vaccines. Playing sports precludes the practical measures to prevent infection, so I suspect the infection rate among teams and staff will be higher than the normal population.
I suspect we see lots of players pulled out of participation, as individuals and among small outbreaks.
All of these guys have families and there are plenty of folks in their immediate spheres, personally and professionally they’ll want to protect.