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Nick Saban questions if SEC quarantine period aligns with science
Posted on 11/13/20 at 9:05 am
Posted on 11/13/20 at 9:05 am
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Alabama coach Nick Saban on Thursday evening questioned the SEC’s protocol that requires athletes traced as close contacts to COVID-infected people to be quarantined for 14 days.
“Look, the social tracing part of it is the reason these games are being canceled," Saban said during his weekly radio show. "It’s not the number of players that are testing positive. Aight?
"We’ve been ‘round and around on this, even to the point where the people in the federal government, Dr. [Anthony] Fauci and the people who work for him, told us that if you’re gonna get this, you’re gonna get it in seven days. OK? That’s the science. Aight? So you’re probably going to get it within five days, but seven days max.
"So we can test guys out of this in five, six and seven [days] and let them come back in eight days and we’re having them quarantine for 14 days. So you really have to quarantine if you don’t have it -- just because you’re around somebody -- for longer than if you get it. You’re out for longer, and you may not even get sick.
"We should use the science to make sure we keep people safe, but when we have science that verifies what safe is, then we should use that.”
The SEC medical guidance task force’s requirements for COVID-19, last revised Nov. 3, call for a 14-day quarantine period for any athletes who were in prolonged close contact -- defined as within six feet for more than 15 minutes -- of an infected person. The requirements, first published in August, cite “current national guidelines” in enforcing the 14-day quarantine, and add that testing negative does not shorten the quarantine period.
For a confirmed infection of COVID-19, the SEC’s guidelines call for at least a 10-day isolation period from the onset of symptoms or a positive test.
Nick Saban questions if SEC quarantine period aligns with science
Posted on 11/13/20 at 9:09 am to paperwasp
So now little Nicky is the covid expert
Posted on 11/13/20 at 9:10 am to paperwasp
And here Saban is a Democrat. See, there are reasonable people on all sides (just not that many of them).
And why must it be a fricking football coach who explains this stuff to reporters (who think of themselves as the smartest people on the planet)?
And why must it be a fricking football coach who explains this stuff to reporters (who think of themselves as the smartest people on the planet)?
Posted on 11/13/20 at 9:10 am to paperwasp
How long before the SEC changes their contact tracing guidelines?
Posted on 11/13/20 at 9:10 am to nicholastiger
Nope. This is just common sense.
Posted on 11/13/20 at 9:11 am to MarcusATLSU
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Nope. This is just common sense.
I agree.
Posted on 11/13/20 at 9:11 am to Tuscaloosa
Is it wrong to think of Nick Saban as among our brightest minds in the SEC? If so, nothing wrong with having him help with policy. In fact, after he retires, it would be good of the SEC to hire him as a consultant of sorts. He's a brilliant man.
Posted on 11/13/20 at 9:12 am to nicholastiger
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So now little Nicky is the covid expert
LOL
“Please oh please ohh please don’t shorten the quarantine mandates!!1! Please cancel our season!!” - Bottom tier internet user and yellow bellied LSU fan nicholastiger
Posted on 11/13/20 at 9:15 am to paperwasp
The death rate now is lower than the flu. Just let the young athletes go and if they get it, they get it.
Posted on 11/13/20 at 9:15 am to Tuscaloosa
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How long before the SEC changes their contact tracing guidelines?
At this point they really need to adopt the NFL protocol, which allows high-risk contacts to “test out” of quarantine on Day 5.
Posted on 11/13/20 at 9:15 am to paperwasp
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Aight?
I clicked your link just to check to see if this was added after by you
Posted on 11/13/20 at 9:16 am to NYCAuburn
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I clicked your link just to check to see if this was added after by you
Posted on 11/13/20 at 9:23 am to paperwasp
Saban reading my posts.
I hope he is able to get momentum around it. Is also affecting high school kids that have to sit out an extra week for something not supported by the science.
And high schools are shutting down entire teams for that extra week. Craziness
I hope he is able to get momentum around it. Is also affecting high school kids that have to sit out an extra week for something not supported by the science.
And high schools are shutting down entire teams for that extra week. Craziness
This post was edited on 11/13/20 at 9:34 am
Posted on 11/13/20 at 9:25 am to paperwasp
Ooooh. Nick's mad he couldn't assrape LSU!
Posted on 11/13/20 at 9:26 am to paperwasp
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paperwasp
I would like to thank you for bringing logical and reasonable content to the board in one the darkest weeks we've seen around here in a long, long time.
Posted on 11/13/20 at 9:29 am to TigerLunatik
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I would like to thank you for bringing logical and reasonable content to the board in one the darkest weeks we've seen around here in a long, long time.
Right back at ya', bro.
Posted on 11/13/20 at 9:32 am to paperwasp
We are listening to Saban to determine what we know about COVID-19 and how to handle it. Aight.
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