WVU Release A Second WVU Football Player Tests Positive for COVID-19

[Keenan Cummings]

A Second WVU Football Player Tests Positive for COVID-19

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (June 20, 2020) – The West Virginia University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics announced today that a second Mountaineer football student-athlete has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus and will enter a self-isolation period for the next 14 days.


As part of the department’s health and safety protocol, contact tracing procedures were initiated and identified additional football student-athletes who could have been exposed to the virus by this player. Those additional student-athletes will also be mandated to self-quarantine per the department’s plan.


Voluntary workouts for Mountaineer football players who have tested negative for the COVID-19 virus began last Monday, June 15. The department’s safety protocols include the current CDC guidelines for containing and stopping the spread of COVID-19.

 

[locustwv]

Like I said I hope I’m dead wrong but I really don’t see football this fall.

 

[3xWVUenginEER]

1. I hope all affected with this COV19 get well and have good health.

i spoke with a lady in her mid to late 60s who has had this virus. She is in good health. She jogs and walks a few miles a few times a week and has for years. She also weight trains. When she got the virus, she was tested and found to have it and then the local county health department told her to quarantine for 2 weeks. She did. The only medication she took the entire time was Tylenol for a fever a few days.

The health dept called her about every other day to check on her. She missed 1/2 of 1 day of work (she’s a certified financial planner (that’s how I know her) and worked from home). Week one she had a fever off and on for two to three days and told me she was tired more Than usual by days end. The 2nd week she was better and really no symptoms other than still no great smell or taste when she ate. She said she had that in the first week too. Not a big appetite either.

Her taste and smell returned after 2 weeks and she’s the same as she was before.

The biggest complaint this lady said she had with it was drinking hot fluids for a week and a half and having to do breathing exercises which she said was probably why she was more tired at days end. The hot fluid reportedly keeps the mucous in the throat broke up so it goes to the stomach where those acids will kill it. By the end of two weeks she was fine and jogging again.

I say all that to say this. The media sells the negative on everything (COV19, financial ruin, war, you name it, etc) and people (not persons) by in large don’t think as much as normal. Most of the deaths from this are people who are in bad health anyways. AND IM NOT SAYING THESE DEATHS ARE MEANINGLESS OR NORMAL. I’m saying it cause it’s true.

I believe College athletes and really athletes in general should not have major issues with this. Yeah there will always be the exception but by in large if you’re healthy you probably don’t have much to worry about. It’s a virus.

I’m living my life. I am going to Daytona this summer for much needed/wanted R&R. I will visit Aunt Catfishes on the River as much as I can despite there having an employee testing positive for COV19 this past week. Life is short and I will live mine. If it’s my time to die, I’m ready.

For sports I believe it will change this year probably and bursting the sports bubble may not be such a bad thing long term. Maybe people can get their priorities straight. Maybe just maybe everybody will remember it is just games played by people for entertainment and that’s all it is.

I’m am still watching the ufc, napcar, and I hope there’s college football. I don’t care at all about basketball and baseball lost me forever in 94.

I think it will be something if the nfl has to cancel games or play in empty stadiums. The monster in sports will be reduced to just like everyone else. NOW That would be some humble pie.

Again I’m not rooting for any of it or anything bad, but it will be something.

 

[Op2]

"I say all that to say this. The media sells the negative on everything (COV19, financial ruin, war, you name it, etc) and people (not persons) by in large don’t think as much as normal."

There is a phrase that refers to the media peddling negative and scary stuff. It's called "fear porn."

 

[WVUALLEN]

Well said 3X