Coronavirus and sports

[Yrebmi]

For the little it's worth I have also heard it's a form of the flu. My source a co worker who directly asked his doctor.
Admittedly not concrete sources.

[nfotiu]

Originally Posted by pepper24

In Italy the 4 deaths have been aged 78, 77, 68, 84. Not sure if they had prior health issues as well.

17 deaths out of 650 cases. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsan...ls-for-a-month

2.6% death rate is much scarier than the flu.

[FlamesFanTrev]

Originally Posted by gullfoss

cases have gone from 1000 to 80,000 in the past 4-6 weeks. And that's with containment policies in place. It's plausible exponential growth continues...that's 80,000% growth. Extrapolation gets you to as many as 7,000,000 infected a month from now and a world wide epidemic at the end of april. Even if the rate slows markedly, it delays an arguably inevitable outcome only 2-4 months.

The financial markets are catching on about a week late...

80,000/1000= 80,000%

[Cowboy89]

Originally Posted by nfotiu

17 deaths out of 650 cases. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsan...ls-for-a-month

2.6% death rate is much scarier than the flu.

Although, yes, appears much scarier than the flu, however, at this point it's too preliminary to hang your hat on fatality rate numbers. For practical reasons Italy stopped testing contacts of cases and only are testing people who show up with symptoms. Therefore in their situation, the numerator is most definitely understated while the denominator is tracked with almost perfect accuracy. Just something to think about.

[Always Earned Never Given]

Quote:
Originally Posted by gullfoss View Post
cases have gone from 1000 to 80,000 in the past 4-6 weeks. And that's with containment policies in place. It's plausible exponential growth continues...that's 80,000% growth. Extrapolation gets you to as many as 7,000,000 infected a month from now and a world wide epidemic at the end of april. Even if the rate slows markedly, it delays an arguably inevitable outcome only 2-4 months.

The financial markets are catching on about a week late...

80,000/1000= 80,000%

Thought that would be 7,900% ?

80,000 minus 1,000 divided by 1000 X 100%

[GullFoss]

Inter Milan is playing major games in an empty stadium!!

https://www.si.com/soccer/2020/02/28...onavirus-italy

[Rando]

Originally Posted by GullFoss

Inter Milan is playing major games in an empty stadium!!

https://www.si.com/soccer/2020/02/28...onavirus-italy

So are the Panthers

[shogged]

id probably just enjoy the super cheap tickets assuming they don't cancel the games lol

[djsFlames]

C of Red hazmat suits.

[Resolute 14]

> Be the Oilers
> Finally make the playoffs
> Fans not allowed to attend
> Eliminated first round
> Bans lifted in time for second round
> Flames win the Cup
> FML

[Flash Walken]

Cap crunch coming as HRR is likely to fall.

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

Cap crunch coming as HRR is likely to fall.

Maybe. But you're dancing on the edge of a different - but related - problem.

If this burns out over the next six months, then the owners and players might assume HRR will rebound for 2020-21 and leave the cap alone. But, if the pandemic forces empty arenas or cancellations later this season, then HRR falling now will cause a big escrow clawback. Which could have major impacts on CBA negotiations.

[FlamingHabs Fan]

It will be interesting to see if this vaccine works.
I believe this tech was developed after SARS, if it works it could be a major move forward in fighting infectious diseases.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/25/busin...ine/index.html

[Itse]

Originally Posted by FlamingHabs Fan

It will be interesting to see if this vaccine works.
I believe this tech was developed after SARS, if it works it could be a major move forward in fighting infectious diseases.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/25/busin...ine/index.html

There's at least three vaccines in the works with the same estimate of 12-18 months until production.

[Boreal]

https://www.tsn.ca/iihf-cancels-marc...ents-1.1451453

IIHF March tournaments cancelled.

[GullFoss]

Article in Athletic about NHL and coronavirus: https://theathletic.com/1649048/2020...shared-article

[rhino]

Or who cares..... this thing is being made a bigger deal then necessary. Because it’s out of China there is a certain fear factor applied. This is not Ebola for crying out loud.

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by rhino

Or who cares..... this thing is being made a bigger deal then necessary. Because it’s out of China there is a certain fear factor applied. This is not Ebola for crying out loud.

You're right Ebola killed 1 in 3 but it's transmitted via direct contact with blood or bodily fluids, Corona is transmitted like the flu but has a longer incubation period and a 200x fatality rate. Yeah, it's nothing to fear

[GordonBlue]

Originally Posted by rhino

Or who cares..... this thing is being made a bigger deal then necessary. Because it’s out of China there is a certain fear factor applied. This is not Ebola for crying out loud.

Or maybe the fear factor is the virus is still pretty unknown, and it's infected 10's of thousands while killing thousands, and the spread hasn't been contained.
ebola is fairly easy to stop. this isn't.

are you just being willfully ignorant?

Shouldn't be too long before this hits and NHL city as it's now spreading in the states.
I can't see games being cancelled, but perhaps played in empty arenas if it his hard here.

[nfotiu]

Originally Posted by GordonBlue

Or maybe the fear factor is the virus is still pretty unknown, and it's infected 10's of thousands while killing thousands, and the spread hasn't been contained.
ebola is fairly easy to stop. this isn't.

are you just being willfully ignorant?

Shouldn't be too long before this hits and NHL city as it's now spreading in the states.
I can't see games being cancelled, but perhaps played in empty arenas if it his hard here.

It will be interesting to see how it is handled here. Some of the Italian soccer games cancelled are much bigger events in terms of money/tv at stake than any NHL game would be. Why would they cancel and the NHL not?