Results of MLB Covid-19 Intake Testing to start camp

[MurphDogg]

 

[backwardsk]

1 hour ago, MurphDogg said:

 

Best response: “Lord, leave it to a Cub to ruin baseball for the summer.”  This poor soul thinks the quote is from Anthony Rizzo.

[weams]

On 7/5/2020 at 9:29 AM, LA2 said:

In FL or MD? I can't delay my business in Miami any longer and will be headed down in an Amtrak sleeping car's roomette (individual bathroom, meals brought to me) in about a week. Costs just slightly more than a 1st-class airplane seat, but it is a 27-hour ride. As for getting to the station, I rather irrationally prefer taking a subway to Penn Station and walking around there over a Lyft to JFK Airport and dealing with TSA.

Will be interesting to see the post-July 4th stats. As a 64-year-old with a history of pneumonia, I feel it's necessary to take precautions as much as possible. My vigorous 74-year-old friend is a mechanical engineer with lots of on-site supervisory work to do in other cities; he's going to the extreme of driving everywhere in his own car--even all the way from Miami to NY.

I hope it works well for you. I don't want to have you sick. 

[weams]

13 hours ago, Win Column said:

 

What's curious is that his wife says that they never went out for 4 months, yet he still caught it. 

No visitors other than "family."

[weams]

2 minutes ago, weams said:

No visitors other than "family."

Also, he has been with players and staff for over a week. 

[atomic]

2 hours ago, MurphDogg said:

Astros too. MLB is not exactly instilling confidence in their ability to keep people safe.

 

I am sure a lot of people in Texas are trying to get tested right now.  Perhaps they should have picked a different state to train in.  Seems the places where players have a hard time getting tested are places with high rates of new infections.   Not sure why you would want your players to travel to Texas, Florida or California right now.  Should have picked minor league stadiums in areas with low infection rates to train. 

Seems like Houston is about the worst area in the country right now.  So Astro''s decide to have their training camp there?  

[weams]

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/07/regarding-the-mlbtr-comment-section.html

[atomic]

10 minutes ago, weams said:

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/07/regarding-the-mlbtr-comment-section.html

Maybe they should shut the comments section down entirely.  Seems a lot of stuff in the comments in that post that are offensive in nature that have nothing to do with covid. 

[Redskins Rick]

38 minutes ago, weams said:

No visitors other than "family."

They claim you can still catch it with contact less delivery items.

I read a new study, that said droplets can carry 20 feet in the outdoors, given the wind and other conditions.

[LA2]

orof t

42 minutes ago, weams said:

I hope it works well for you. I don't want to have you sick. 

Thank you for the good wishes. I took a Covid antigens test at my PCP on Thursday and the results came back negative. I trust that office in Queens a lot--they may have saved my life from a very rare disease about five years ago--and so I'm reassured by their stating that the test is very reliable.

In any case, I'll know pretty clearly now that if I contract the virus it was because of reentering Florida (I'll be there for an unfortunately extensive 3-4 weeks). Rather alarmed to hear from acquaintances there about how little masks are being used--for example, even during neighborhood basketball games.

[LA2]

On 7/5/2020 at 10:48 AM, Satyr3206 said:

The tests are inaccurate because they test for all viruses in the Corona family, including the common cold.

So, by that logic, a negative is very reliably negative.

[Redskins Rick]

Just now, LA2 said:

orof t

Thank you for the good wishes. I took a Covid antigens test at my PCP on Thursday and the results came back negative. I trust that office in Queens a lot--they may have saved my life from a very rare disease about five years ago--and so I'm reassured by their stating that the test is very reliable.

In any case, I'll know pretty clearly now that if I contract the virus it was because of reentering Florida (I'll be there for an unfortunately extensive 3-4 weeks). Rather alarmed to hear from acquaintances there about how little masks are being used--for example, even during neighborhood basketball games.

I have family in Florida and its a real mess, they reopened too soon, and now flaring back up and closing beaches and bars back down.

They do not respect the mask thing at all.

I think its pretty easy to tell the states with lower covid cases are taking the mask more seriously.

[Redskins Rick]

1 minute ago, LA2 said:

So, by that logic, a negative is very reliably negative.

I didnt know the common cold was a considered a respiratory illness?

I thought the problem with some of the tests was due to improper handling procedures at the test facility or the lab where the tests where processed.

[LA2]

21 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

Florida, I live in Florida.

Pinellas county in rough shape.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/07/04/four-pinellas-hospitals-completely-out-of-icu-beds/

Very dismayed to read this. Average age out there must be older, relatively speaking, and so quite concerning. Since I will be in Miami, I am encouraged to see that its mayor is reclosing to a certain extent. Superficially, the mortality rate (deaths / total confirmed infected) has been decreasing, but this is deceptive; it's due to the rapid increase in the number of cases outrunning the increase (not decrease) in number of deaths.

[atomic]

30 minutes ago, Redskins Rick said:

They claim you can still catch it with contact less delivery items.

I read a new study, that said droplets can carry 20 feet in the outdoors, given the wind and other conditions.

If you are outdoors and 20 feet away from someone you should be fine.  People aren't getting this outdoors twenty feet away from others.  Even if it travels 20 feet it would be so dissipated you would get such a small part of the virus you aren't going to be harmed.