Boston College has suspended all team activities for its swimming and diving program after a few members of the team tested positive for coronavirus.
While the school did not confirm how many positive tests there were, the Boston Globe reports that 13 members of the team tested positive.
The team members who tested positive are currently in isolation, according to a BC spokesperson.
Boston College is not the first team that has suspended swimming & diving training amid positive tests. Previously, programs including Texas A&M and Louisville have reported positive tests.
Given the broader data emerging about outbreaks on college campuses, it’s likely that many other programs have had infections and positive tests, but have not reported those publicly or specifically. National data showing the towns and cities with the highest infection rates over the last 2 weeks show lists that are almost entirely made up of “college towns” where student-bodies returning to campus make up a significant portion of the town’s population.
Boston College welcomed students back to campus at the end of August, with students being required to take a coronavirus test and quarantine upon arrival until receiving their tests back. The school has also hired a police detail to shut down student parties. The school has altered-day or staggered schedules, and dining halls are providing meals to-go only to limit the number of people gathered in one place at any time.
Boston College has approximately 9,000 undergraduates. As of Thursday morning, in a press release, the school reported only 12 positive tests, including 10 undergraduates. If the Boston Globe’s reporting of 13 positive tests among the swimming & diving team is accurate, that would indicate a lag in the data.
Boston College competes in the ACC, which is one of the few conferences that will hold NCAA football games this fall. The football season kicks off on Saturday September 19th with a game against Duke.
The school has not yet released a 2020-2021 college swimming & diving schedule yet.
Last season, the Boston College men finished 12th out of 12 teams at the ACC Championships, including behind Miami, which only sponsors diving on the men’s side. The team’s only 4 individual points came from sophomore Sam Roche, who placed 21st in the 100 back.
The BC women also finished 12th out of 12 teams, with no individual points.
There were positive signs for the team, however. The women’s team broke School Records in 15 out of 23 events where the school tracks them, while the men’s team broke School Records in 7 out of 23 events.
Given the likelihood that the swimmers got infected away from swimming, keeping everyone out of the pool that does not test positive makes no sense. Retest everyone, wait for the results, then let everyone not infected continue as they were. No matter how much precautions are taken during training it won’t stop someone from engaging in risky behavior away from training.
Yeah and all other colleges of course.
No big deal. Out of the 25,000 to 30,000 positive tests at college campuses, there have been zero hospitalizations. People under 50 years old have a better chance of dying by driving to school or work than dying of the China virus. Let them get back to practice and keep the Coronabro politics out of it.
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Well I guess people over 50 can go screw themselves… also since you brought it up in Massachusetts you are 25 times more likely to die from Covid than a car accident.
Is it possible for a person to screw themselves? Doesn’t that take two?
wow, so much information about you in a few sentences. You can’t comprehend data, facts, you lie, you are a racist, etc. How do you remember to breathe?
I’m just stating fact. There are in fact zero hospitalizations from coronavirus on college campus that have been reported. It did come from and originate from China so it should be called the “China Virus”. You probably think it’s racist when someone goes into McDonalds and says, “May I order some French Fries?”
buddy, a college football player died of covid
Fake news from the Coronabro media.
I know for a FACT that there have been hospitalizations among college swimmers.
Do any colleges actually report hospitalization data for students? My own university reports cases in its hospital, but these can’t be student hospitalizations because prior to the end of August there were many more hospitalizations than student cases.
I don’t have an axe to grind, but I do have two roughly college-aged children. I would love to find some verification that there really are no hospitalizations as it would make me rest easier in case one of them actually gets infected.
This college student died yesterday at age 20.
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/09/09/college-football-player-jamain-stephens-dies-at-age-20-of-covid-19-complications/
read article…it says “has died at the age of 20 of what was initially described as COVID-19 complications but was later said to be unconfirmed.”
You would think people would read the article before posting it in making a point. 🙂
Fake news from Coronabro media.
“Unconfirmed”.
There’s nothing racist about my comment. The virus came from and originated in the country of China. I’m just stating fact.
Don’t play dumb
I can’t make a good argument, so I’m going to call your comments racist.
I don’t really think it’s accurate to say “cities with the highest infection rates over the last 2 weeks…are almost entirely made up of ‘college towns.’” That is equating infection rates with positive tests. At the colleges that are recently back in session, every single person on campus is getting tested, some repeatedly. Of course they are going to have more positive test results than areas where the testing rate is much lower.
Well, it’s a good thing Boston isn’t a big college town.
I rate that comment an 11.
I wish that were true. It’s certainly not the case at my (large) university, which is testing maybe 15% of its student population.
You’re right, his points were in the 100 back. Corrected.
You can’t HOOT with the Owls and Fly with Eagles.
Let them swim! So many colleges are removing their swim programs, at least let the ones who still have it still swim. Swimming is important for these athletes’ mental health.
I’m sorry but this is a dumb, irresponsible comment. What part of 13 members tested positive for covid did you not understand? BC is doing the right thing by suspending things until they get a handle on things…
How many of those 13 are actual positives? There needs to be a retest.
How many of those 13 are hospitalized?
Is it worth closing a program for 14 days if no one is even hospitalized?
Agree, let’s be real. The whole team could get it and probably be asymptomatic.
What part of the 13 can spread it and further this never ending nightmare? Answer: all of them
Why not quarantine the team and let them continue to train?
Do like the Swedes. Let it run its course and get it over with. https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-sweden-infections-low-084931795.html
Exactly. Remember a couple months ago when people on this website were complaining about covid removing/suspending their swim programs… funny how things change now.
And we wonder why there are still over 1,000 deaths daily in America.
All you had to do was sample the related threads here. It was piles of ignorant crap. We were told it was nothing but the flu even though every fleck of common sense screamed otherwise. Trump knew in early February it was at least 5x as deadly as the flu. I continually ridiculed the morons here who were comparing to the flu. Everyone in their lives should have been ridiculing them. The fact that it didn’t happen allowed the ignorance to continue, translating to tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths.
This should now be beyond politics, after we heard Trump on tape describing how deadly this is. It needs to be about saving lives… Read more »
In the USA, less than 10,000 people have died of Covid-19 (as opposed to dying with Covid-19).
This disease, it could be argued, is actually less deadly than the flu.
If we followed your advice, no one would ever leave their house for any reason.
Maybe that’s what it means to live ‘down under’?
If we applied the same “if you have a comorbidity it doesn’t count” logic (which is a ridiculous argument, because so many people have comorbidities, and would not have otherwise died if it weren’t for COVID infection, yet it seems some huge portion of the population has bought into this) to the flu, I think you’d still find that the COVID count is higher than the flu.
20-somethings with no comorbidities rarely die from the flu, either.
By your same logic no one dies of cancer either. They die of pneumonia, multi-system organ failure, etc.
By your logic AIDS was never a big deal either…
I don’t recall anyone mandating a lockdown or that businesses shut down when AIDS first came on the scene. There was a recommendation to wear a jimmy hat, but no mandate.
My reply was in response to this whole of/with bs that some folks on this site like to argue. I know it’s hard for you Hank, but try to keep up
Hank handed it to you son, take that lump like a man.
Tougher on COVID than those who were not in power? Pretty easy to do. Almost 200,000 dead, pretty easy to see this was handled perfectly by not supporting basic science of masks and social distance. Yep. Nice job Trump. This could have been his shining moment and a path to victory, but here we are.
Why does this Dooger guy get to post all this nonsense?
Don’t mind Gary, he’s far left and passionate about that stuff.
Dooger is a typical left winger making statements before the facts are even in:
“Teachers have already died in 5 different states after schools were stupidly reopened too soon.”
Problem with that statement is there’s no proof it was a result of the teachers going back to school and getting it from their students. In fact these people contracted Covid-19 before school even started.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-reports-number-of-teachers-died-of-coronavirus-since-schools-reopened-no-evidence-they-contracted-it-while-at-school
I wonder why they riot everyday in Portland?
Been between 300-1000 recently.
Is myocarditis a real risk though because you know of maybe one? I’d like to see some real data on this. Several MD’s on the frontline would disagree with your assertion.
That was almost immediately debunked and retracted. But herein lies another issue…throw out a “study”, get the clicks, and meh…who cares if it’s actually right or not. The retraction doesn’t get the same play.
Myocarditis is relatively common with any viral or bacterial illness and usually resolves fully, especially in a young and otherwise-healthy athlete.
Myocarditis = FUD
Good Luck Eagles you will get through this!