Sources: Texas A&M Swimmers Among Positive COVID-19 Cases

Texas A&M, one of the first college swim teams to return to practice amid the coronavirus pandemic, has had multiple swimmers test positive for COVID-19, sources tell SwimSwam.

The Aggies had returned to training as of early June, with no coaches on deck. But as the coronavirus has exploded in the state of Texas, several sources close to the team tell SwimSwam that multiple Texas A&M swimmers have tested positive for COVID-19.

By mid-June, Texas A&M had already revealed that student-athletes were testing positive.

The school confirmed to SwimSwam this week that “there have been positive cases among student-athletes,” but has declined to confirm or deny that the swimming & diving program has had positive tests. The school has also refused to provide the number of positive cases among student-athletes, citing data privacy. That’s in contrast to many other college athletic departments, which have released specific numbers of positive cases. Local newspaper The Eagle has reported specific counts from Baylor University, the University of Houston, and the University of Texas. Some schools, like the University of Michigan, have proactively been updating media with weekly coronavirus testing data.

Per the state’s Department of Health and Human Services, Texas has seen an explosion of coronavirus cases over the last month. On May 31, the state recorded what was then its record-high of 1,949 new cases. In each of the last three days, Texas has registered more than 9,000 new daily positive tests, with more than 10,000 new cases on Tuesday, July 7.

At the same time, fatalities have risen sharply: Texas registered 105 coronavirus fatalities on Thursday alone.

Brazos County, which includes Texas A&M’s campus, has reported 2,704 cases and 34 fatalities through yesterday.

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covid
3 years ago

You don’t know what you’re talking about if you think all of those other schools have released the actual number of positive cases. Just saying 🙂

Eisenheim
3 years ago

Should this be the one where I out Ol’ Longhorn??

Lord Farquad
3 years ago

Swimswam being its usual nosey self. Mind your own business and let them handle the situation.

Eisenheim
Reply to  Lord Farquad
3 years ago

You’re still here tho 🙂

HISWIMCOACH
3 years ago

Regarding the inhaler, check out Dr. Bartlett and Budesonide. Very cool stuff and another therapeutic/potential long term cure.

Corn Pop
3 years ago

US is one of the few nations that never mass vaccinated against TB . Immigrants from Communist countries are probably fine because they were vigilant with birth plus booster shots ..( Someone should do a head count ). East Germany is in this category , much better off that the other lot.

Isolation is the historical solution . No reaso why it could not be done in US hotspots .A village in Siberia recently. had 37 cases contacted in a Shamanic gathering . Authorities dug a massive trench around the village . It is looking very medieval but they won’t be spreading it further.

I would like to see th i s method employed for all outbreaks .… Read more »

200 Free Specialist
3 years ago

Wow. As a swim dad who is an emergency room attending physician when not chauffeuring kids to the pool, let me give you my perspective.

Here in Texas, numbers of Covid-19 infections have been rising fast, and we see this clearly every single day in my hospital. Fatality rates (i.e., percentage of those infected who die as a result) have been low for two reasons:
1) We have developed much better medical protocols to treat the disease than existed last March/April. This is in large part due to the experience of medical personnel in New York, who have communicated their results to us and to hospitals around the country.
2) A much larger share of the newly infected… Read more »

Ladyvoldisser
Reply to  200 Free Specialist
3 years ago

Thank you swim dad 200 FREE SPECIALIST. Your anecdotal experiences should help curb the hysteria as pertains healthy college athletes AND younger school age children. The blow back from not allowing these young people to return to school will be devastating.

USAUSAUSA
Reply to  Ladyvoldisser
3 years ago

How will it be devastating? Serious question. I’ve heard that argument, but I don’t understand the devastation it would cause. Worst case: an entire Generation of kids is one grade behind. My tiny brain can’t figure out the consequences of that.

HISWIMCOACH
Reply to  USAUSAUSA
3 years ago

School is equally for socialization as anything else. Do you have kids of your own? Just curious. Most parents I know aren’t happy with distance learning for their young kids.

Not to mention impacts of economic consequences to working parents. Can you imagine those who can’t work from home? What will they do when their 6 and 8 year old need to do online learning?

USAUSAUSA
Reply to  HISWIMCOACH
3 years ago

Good points. Thanks!

Gurrra
3 years ago

This is no big deal. College aged athletes have a better chance of dying from the flu, driving to practice or getting struck by lightening. They need to be in school, on campus and training. Three cheers for “herd immunity”!

PsychoDad
Reply to  Gurrra
3 years ago

“Heard Immunity?” You really do not know what you are talking about. Have you read the post here about Hungarian swimmers not having any antibodies? Or scientific articles saying that even if you develop antibodies, they will most likely be short lived, based on many scientists. Currently, about 5-6% of USA had been infected and 132,000 people died. How many would die to achieve 65-75% infection rate? And then again from beginning if it proves to be the case with other coronaviruses where you are immune only for months, not years. It pains me to no end to write this and waste time, but I find this very dangerous for young peopple who read this forum.

Swimfan
Reply to  PsychoDad
3 years ago

There are methods that the body uses to develop immunity Other than antibodies. The problem with this line of thoughts is if having the virus and getting over it doesn’t impart immunity then what is waiting for a vaccine going to do. The vaccine won’t impart immunity better than the virus if all you are concerned about is antibodies.

Brol
Reply to  Swimfan
3 years ago

Why don’t you enlighten us about these other methods of immunity.
Being immune to something requires specificity – having white blood cells ( T cells and B cells) that are specific for a particular pathogen. When you have this, guess what you’ll have – antibodies.
Please don’t pretend to know something that you obviously don’t understand

Virtus
Reply to  PsychoDad
3 years ago

I think the cdc says it’s probably closer to 10% that’s been infected

PsychoDad
Reply to  Virtus
3 years ago

NYT today:

At a clinic in Corona, a working-class neighborhood in Queens, more than 68 percent of people tested positive for antibodies to the new coronavirus. At another clinic in Jackson Heights, Queens, that number was 56 percent. But at a clinic in Cobble Hill, a mostly white and wealthy neighborhood in Brooklyn, only 13 percent of people tested positive for antibodies.

Ladyvoldisser
Reply to  PsychoDad
3 years ago

It is dangerous for young people who read this forum to read what you write. Please do not speak hysteria. We gonna be fine. We need to return to school, work out and promote health…NOT psychobabble.

Smith-King-Dahlia-Manuel
Reply to  PsychoDad
3 years ago

It’s spelled herd immunity. As for the good ol’ USA, it’s herd stupidity.

CoachScott
Reply to  Gurrra
3 years ago

Struck by lightning…Really?

Smith-King-Dahlia-Manuel
Reply to  CoachScott
3 years ago

Maybe the poster should test that theory by holding a lightning rod in a thunderstorm.

Sam
Reply to  Gurrra
3 years ago

“This is no big deal” – what a great attitude! It’s just 10s of 1000s of people dying, after all

will I get to compete this year?
3 years ago

LIKE if you think there will be a swim season.
DISLIKE if you think there won’t be.

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Jared Anderson swam for nearly twenty years. Then, Jared Anderson stopped swimming and started writing about swimming. He's not sick of swimming yet. Swimming might be sick of him, though. Jared was a YMCA and high school swimmer in northern Minnesota, and spent his college years swimming breaststroke and occasionally pretending …

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