With at least three major collegiate athletic conferences -- the Big Ten, Pac-12 and Big East -- forgoing fall athletics, including football, those choosing to play games during the COVID-19 pandemic may find the path quite difficult.
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"In April, we were envisioning that there would be a continued downward trajectory of COVID-19 new infections and deaths, that there would be a national surveillance system national testing and national contact tracing that would allow us to really navigate this pandemic into re-socializing both in sport and then the rest of society," Hainline said."That hasn't happened, and it's made it very challenging to make decisions as we approach fall sports.
"My advice to organizations that I've talked to is: If you cannot do it safely, you shouldn't do it," said Dr. Carlos del Rio, a professor of medicine and global health at Emory University.As of Thursday afternoon, at least 5.2 million people in the U.S. had contracted COVID-19, and nearly 167,000 had died. Globally, those figures have surpassed 20.7 million and 752,000, respectively.
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